Example sentences of "not always as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although certain oils are believed to be ‘ uplifting ’ , ‘ sedative ’ or ‘ anti-depressant ’ , it is not always as straightforward as this . |
| 2 | Similarly , the legalities of enforcement are not always as straightforward as you may wish . |
| 3 | The ordering of given and new information is not always as straightforward as this , however . |
| 4 | Of course life is not always as simple as that , and being asked to cover for a colleague at very short notice or an unexpected cancellation or transfer on the theatre list can throw your best laid plans into disarray . |
| 5 | It is not always as simple as following the chain back until we come to a name or a noun . |
| 6 | There is no such thing in practice as a perfect vapour barrier , though this is not always as serious as it might appear . |
| 7 | This ‘ seclusion ’ was not always as complete as the authorities might wish . |
| 8 | As Okely ( 1987 : 67 ) observes , the urge to create publications is not always as crucial to others as it is to the academic . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , this is not always as successful as it might be , largely because your dog comes to relate to the trainer 's commands and so then proves more reluctant to follow your instructions . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not always as successful as I hope . |
| 11 | Erm they 're not always as helpful as that . |
| 12 | The recorded sound is slightly close and not always as flattering as it might be . |
| 13 | This organization was not always as efficient in fact as it should have been in theory . |
| 14 | Demand was not always as price-elastic as the critics suggested , and the contrast between the views of managers within an industry ( that price elasticity is low ) and that of economists ( that it is high ) is a familiar one from other industries . |
| 15 | It was not without its problems — co-operation between the individual producers was not always as effective as it might have been and it lacked a satisfactory system of ensuring that the quality of productions was kept uniformly high — but it was an influential scheme , and the bias towards the tape-slide medium amongst audio-visual teaching aids in the UK remains to this day . |
| 16 | This technique is not always as effective as division , but does achieve a nearly random distribution , and so is useful when it is not possible to exploit any existing order in the key sequence . |
| 17 | This is not always as easy as it sounds . |
| 18 | It can take a great deal of courage and confidence to challenge colleagues in this way , but as you will see by studying the Code itself , the definition and standards of conduct required are clear and unequivocal , even if putting them into practice is not always as easy as it is made to sound . |
| 19 | It is not always as easy as that ; nor can adults be caught with the mela . |
| 20 | Thomson 's judgements about music were not always as accurate as his confident expression implied : he invited discussion . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's not always as odd as this . ’ |
| 22 | But the process is not always as beneficial as is popularly supposed |
| 23 | Sir Kenneth Kleinwort 's grandfather refused an invitation to join the Court of the Bank of England and , according to one former Lloyd 's underwriter , some members today are not always as honourable as their predecessors . |
| 24 | God knows we were not always as discreet as we might have been . |
| 25 | We can accept the possibility that reception of cultural products is not always as passive as Adorno suggests , that it is often class-differentiated , that consuming subjects are not necessarily unitary conformists so much as sites traversed by conflicting interpretative schemas . |
| 26 | Mark Elder took some time to strike a fair balance between stage and pit and was not always as considerate as he usually is towards the singers . |
| 27 | His majorities were not always as big as he would have liked , notably in 1923 , his first election as Prime Minister , when he rashly asked for 10,000 and got 6000 ; but he was never in remote danger of losing the seat . |
| 28 | The division between open and closed villages was not always as clear-cut as this may imply — many villages lay somewhere between the two — and it was less extensive in the upland areas where less labour was employed and more workers ‘ lived in ’ on the farms . |
| 29 | Although I personally endorse Labov 's views on the matter of candid recording , it has to be admitted that the issues are not always as clear-cut as they seem . |
| 30 | The cast are not always as economical with their actions as the miser is with his money , mistaking shouting and flinging their arms about as a substitute for comedy . |