Example sentences of "not always [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Watson tends to regard himself as Mike 's adopted father , but Mike has inherited the substantial Lester shareholding and this gives him a considerable amount of independence ( which is not always to John Watson 's taste ) . |
| 2 | Italy 's honour is being saved at the moment by the private sector ; local industries and banks are adopting projects , and although the choice of priorities is not always beyond criticism , their efforts shame the government 's . |
| 3 | Their settlements are not always on time . |
| 4 | When Robert Hathaway died in December 1954 , she regained her full status as dame of Sark and , despite many stormy passages with her islanders , continued to be treated by the majority with the greatest respect , if not always with affection . |
| 5 | Jessica answered her questions , but not always with consistency . |
| 6 | The theatre of war slowly became enlarged , a fact which , paradoxically , was to prove something of an advantage to the kings of France as they tried , if not always with success , to unite their entire population in a common war effort against the English . |
| 7 | This reflects , and not always with credit , the New Zealand and Rugby Football Union 's attitude towards their sponsors and the NZRFU cash-register demand that major international sides play high-profile games on each Saturday of a tour . |
| 8 | That in the main was true but not always of course . |
| 9 | It always smells of pedantry , and not always of learning . |
| 10 | We must distinguish at least three cases : first , where unions are prohibited or repressed ; second , where official government or company unions are permitted ; third , where genuinely independent unions actually operate.6 While most TNCs in most countries will follow the local rules regarding the unions , host governments , particularly in export processing industries ( not always under pressure from foreign investors ) , have suspended national labour legislation . |
| 11 | Reports are not always about revolutions and that 's important ! |
| 12 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
| 13 | There were many routes from Earth to the Reconciled Dominions , some safer than others , but all used at one time or another , and not always by magicians . |
| 14 | He investigates by going to places , tackling people , often but not always by shooting or slugging them , and often but not obligatorily so by going to bed with them . |
| 15 | It was already clear to Coleman from his analysis of the drugs-related intelligence coming out of Lebanon that the traditional heroin route to the US via Cyprus , Frankfurt and London was used regularly by both agencies , that the traffic was not always in narcotics and that it moved both ways . |
| 16 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 17 | Those who remained loyal could expect to be generously rewarded , in position if not always in money . |
| 18 | This is another indication that regional and labour mobility policies are not always in conflict with each other . |
| 19 | ‘ About two weeks in all , but not always in Florence . |
| 20 | Although it does not show up in the analyses , content surely also became more international , in source of origin , if not always in substance . |
| 21 | Although versions of all the papers in the collection have been published elsewhere ( but not always in English ) , they are cited here in these easily available versions except where the date or other details of the original publications are particularly relevant . |
| 22 | It is suggested that the words in square brackets be deleted from clause 11.2 as the landlord 's solicitors will doubtless make several statements in writing to the tenant 's solicitors during a transaction and not always in reply to written inquiries . |
| 23 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 24 | There was no doubt that maintaining several hundred Australians on Timor was now counter-productive ; and in December the 2/2 Independent Company were taken off the island , after nearly 11 months of constant movement , if not always in action . |
| 25 | The age regulations governing access to training are becoming more flexible , on paper if not always in practice , and there is increasing emphasis on ‘ access ’ courses of various kinds for adults . |
| 26 | In theory , though not always in practice , the 1866 Act required a 100 per cent audit of all transactions . |
| 27 | While Uvarov 's periodization is obviously too clear cut , it is nevertheless true that Speranskii 's reform of the territory 's administration — including the operation of the exile system and the regularization of relations with the Siberian natives — created , in theory , if not always in practice , a more rational and equitable framework for the government and management of the Siberian lands which remained more or less in situ until the upheavals of 1917 . |
| 28 | Sometime around 1745 Rome suddenly reversed its earlier policy and began , in theory if not always in practice , to treat all Catholics as members of the same species whatever their skin colour or cultural affiliation . |
| 29 | ‘ I write as a result of some inner compulsion , ’ he once remarked , ‘ and I 'm not always in control of it . ’ |
| 30 | Those who are most adept at wielding the bow are not always in control of the pen , and the few who possess equal facility in both often lack the will to write . |