Sentence examples for but not invariable from inspiring English sources

Colour, pattern and curves are the most obvious but not invariable features, as are a bringing together of unlikely companions of form and material.

Erskine May, the accepted authority on parliamentary procedure, says that it is "the usual but not invariable practice" for prorogation (the end of Parliament's sittings) and dissolution to occur on the same day.

Furthermore, MDCT is extremely sensitive and represents the gold standard technique for the detection, localisation and quantification of free intraperitoneal air, which is a common but not invariable finding after laparoscopic surgical procedures and may result from residual insufflated gas or from trocar dislodgement during difficult entry or positioning.

Perhaps pleasure, or some kind of pleasure, is the typical but not invariable very short-term consequence of dopaminergic activity, but only so long as the dopamine system is functioning within its normal dynamic range (cf. Voruganti et al. 2001) and there are not pathological changes downstream, as may be the case in some anxiety disorders and in some kinds of schizophrenia and depression.

* Monthly was the typical pattern, but not invariable.

These frequent, but not invariable, co-occurrences of autoimmunity, β cell dysfunction, and metabolic syndrome, contribute to the phenotypic heterogeneity in young Asian patients with diabetes.

On the other hand, if the productive connections were not invariable and necessary — but only held for the most part — then the physician could reliably but not invariably produce health (Metaphysics, 1026b30-1027a25).

Its strong association with bone edema (which was accompanied here by synovitis in all but one instance) suggests that the lesions are often linked but this is not invariable.

In these tumors, the physical integration of the HPV genome is a frequent, though not invariable occurrence, but the constitutive expression of the E6 and E7 viral genes is always observed, suggesting key roles for the E6 and E7 oncoproteins in the process of malignant transformation.

In addition, miRNA oncogenes and tumor suppressors are not invariable in function but can perform the converse function (oncogene becomes suppressor and vice versa) under specific conditions.

It is noteworthy that miRNA oncogenes and tumor suppressors are not invariable in their function but can switch function in some circumstance.