Example sentences of "not exactly the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he thought that was beautiful he was not exactly the tasteful , classy guy he appeared to be , she thought , attempting to be callous . |
| 2 | Not exactly the first person I 'd send on a Feile stage to confront a horde of lunatics crazed by a thunderstorm but Nanci Griffith 's gifts are more private and homely . |
| 3 | He 's not exactly the laughing cavalier , is he ? ’ |
| 4 | We reminisced about Robinson 's batting , which was not exactly the best on the county circuit , but he did have one great moment when he put on 144 for the last wicket with Arnie Sidebottom against Glamorgan at Cardiff . |
| 5 | In all In in all fairness they 're not in my opinion , not exactly the greatest thing to look at in the country are they ? |
| 6 | ( It is not exactly the right answer because of the rough averaging procedure we used to arrive at the direct effects . ) |
| 7 | Contrary to popular opinion the slim person 's weight is not exactly the same each day , totally stable . |
| 8 | We can check that this is pretty near the correct proportion ( 426/1326 = 0.321 ) ; once again , it is not exactly the same because of the crudeness of the averaging procedure . |
| 9 | Love is a sort of narcotic in its effect , and it is like drunkenness or the rapture of the deep that sea-divers write about ; but there are many other kinds of love , though not exactly the same but as brilliant and more lasting . |
| 10 | First of all , they are not exactly the same now as they were then . |
| 11 | The accounts are not exactly the same . |
| 12 | Others claim that to belong to the kingdom of Heaven is not exactly the same as being a member of the Church . |
| 13 | Well , maybe not exactly the same because although the basic pattern of the game does n't change , it does get a darn sight harder . |
| 14 | And again if the signs are the same , I mean I know they 're not exactly the same this is and add and that 's a positive , it 's the same as adding a positive number . |
| 15 | For heating , however , the theory predicts a fundamental asymmetry similar to , but not exactly the same as , that observed experimentally . |
| 16 | Not exactly the same as each other ; he 'd seen different types , but they were all the same types . |
| 17 | Linda sounded similar , though not exactly the same in tone . |
| 18 | Government models of the economy have their counterpart in private sector models of the economy which , although not exactly the same , nevertheless exhibit much the same features . |
| 19 | In addition , it has been pointed out ( Erades 1950 : 123 ) that it is not exactly the same thing to ask someone Will you help me get these letters addressed ? as it is to ask Will you help me to get these letters addressed ? |
| 20 | Although a car , if you think of a car being a car , we know as consumers that one car is not exactly the same as another car , very easy to put power steering on the car or to put go faster stripes on a car , you can differentiate the product very , very easily , alright . |
| 21 | Alright , now , they 're not exactly the same products , but they are very similar . |
| 22 | Waiver of premiums , exactly the same , not exactly the same , sorry , very similar to er , as with Covermaster , it 's automatically built into the first life assured , it 's payable until you return to work , reach the age of sixty , or pay-out of a claim . |
| 23 | The animal 's diet has to be similar , if not exactly the same as , its diet would be if it were in the wild . |
| 24 | Mm , but it , that , that reminds me of that , not exactly the same , it 's a very similar , very similar building , a long sloping roof , not very high building . |
| 25 | I think there 's been a lot , a lot of publicity for childline , now , but you are n't directly in , associated with childline Fjn Well , we 've had , no , we 've had to call ourselves children 's line because for er obvious reasons we ca n't call ourselves childline , but it is the same type of thing , er run in a similar way , not exactly the same of course er partly because we have n't got the money that childline er attracts . |
| 26 | Oh , the pricing is very similar , yes , it 's not exactly the same because we do n't have a meter policy here , that 's B T. |
| 27 | I suppose if you put all this together you would say I 'm not exactly the archetypal Mills & Boon tall dark stranger when it comes to courting girls . |
| 28 | He was not exactly the Australian Rugby Football Union 's pin-up boy when his Italian club Milan initially refused him permission to participate in the parade . |
| 29 | Fair enough — it 's not exactly the bright lights living down here , is it ? |
| 30 | I realise that a parking space next to an overflowing litter bin , in between a lorry full of cattle carcasses and a carload of adolescents playing heavy metal with their windows open on a sound system loud enough for Wembley Stadium , is not exactly the quintessential southern English landscape that would inspire a Constable painting , a Betjeman poem or an Elgar concerto — but it is the best you are going to get . ’ |