Example sentences of "can not always be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With strong winds , the tendency to swing into the wind is far more pronounced , and after landing the swing can not always be controlled by full rudder . |
| 2 | What some of us have come to expect from Jack Charlton can not always be adequately defined : obdurate , quick-tempered , argumentative but unfailingly loyal and never less than a man . |
| 3 | The suggested causes of a given phenomenon can not always be independently observed , and so it is hard to rule out the possibility of there being explanations alternative to the one proposed . |
| 4 | That a range of quarries was exploited in the Mediterranean area is not in doubt , but particular sculpted pieces can not always be attributed to particular quarries on purely visual grounds . |
| 5 | Similarly , farmers are subject to the ravages of animal and plant diseases and pests which can not always be cheaply controlled despite stringent precautions . |
| 6 | Externally the palazzo is genuinely four-sided , I say ‘ genuinely ’ because although all buildings are four-sided ( unless they are triangular ) , each of the four sides can not always be viewed and walked along as they can here . |
| 7 | You may need to do some lateral thinking , as savings can not always be related to the size of the cheques you write out each month . |
| 8 | Even then , bream being bream , one can not always be sure . |
| 9 | You can not always be on hand ( and nor would you wish to be ) to monitor your child . |
| 10 | Parents can not always be on the spot to point out the sensible course of action , to remind children about the rules or to enforce them . |
| 11 | It should be restated that these three aspects of policy , co-ordination , deregulation and development , can not always be neatly separated — there are grey areas . |
| 12 | This presupposes a homogeneity of units which can not always be supported in fact , but the individual investigator must take decisions on this problem in each case as it arises . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the evidence is very difficult to assess ; there is not much , and what there is can not always be relied on as unimpeachably classical . |
| 14 | For example , they have had and still have close links with well-defined groups like schoolchildren whose educational needs in terms of libraries and information can not always be met within the environment of the school . |
| 15 | An acute reaction to food may be difficult to distinguish from a viral infection that produces an attack of gastroenteritis , because the virus can not always be detected in the baby 's stools . |
| 16 | Phileo love would do quite nicely but unfortunately phileo can not always be counted on . |
| 17 | Because of the variety of systems and equipment , a specialist can not always be available and the service personnel have to solve the problem . |
| 18 | I have bought Today 's Horse since the beginning and I am happy to say that it is getting better and better — something which can not always be said for the other horsy magazines , which are often repetitive and patronising . |
| 19 | To explain , requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained , and such terms can not always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known , and evident without Proof , so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition . |
| 20 | He just can not always be brave . |
| 21 | Topics may have been defined , but they can not always be slotted neatly into an existing structure . |
| 22 | Struggles about language are long drawn-out : speakers can not always be brought to see the point of innovations , still less the virtue in them . |
| 23 | They can not always be anticipated . |
| 24 | Conversely , if spatial resolution is optimized in the sense that opposing inputs are drawn from neighbouring cones , then the surround inputs can not always be drawn from a single class of cone . |
| 25 | So perhaps Mill 's claim is that the pleasurableness of life is all that matters but that this can not always be so well promoted by increasing the quantity of low level pleasure as by obtaining lesser amounts of high quality pleasure . |
| 26 | Of course , no government operates with a clean sheet : the allocation of responsibilities between the various agencies of the state can not always be changed easily or quickly . |
| 27 | — senses can not always be derived by affix-stripping , e.g. ’ conductivity ’ derives from ’ conduct ’ , but corresponds only to the electrical sense ( one would not talk of the ’ conductivity ’ of an orchestra ) ; |
| 28 | Unfortunately the friend is anonymous , and Young , that strangely and personally chosen official biographer , can not always be regarded as a witness either of truth or charity . |
| 29 | The equipment can not always be easily provided . |
| 30 | Tests of the accuracy of radiocarbon dates against samples of wood dated by dendrochronology ( see below ) have shown that ‘ radiocarbon years ’ can not always be directly equated with calendar years ( because the amount of carbon 14 varies ) , so that a date of 4,100 BC in ‘ radiocarbon years ’ may actually be closer to a real date of 5,000 BC . |