Example sentences of "[adv] not [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although perhaps not strictly a technological issue , a review of multimedia 's technological environment would be incomplete without at least a broad assessment of the influence and significance of authoring tools . |
| 2 | Perhaps not quite a complete conversionbut the campaigns orgainsers say there is still tim e for the new religion to spread . |
| 3 | Marriage was obviously not simply a religious union but had profound social consequences and these were recognised in the formal legal changes of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | This is obviously not always an easy thing to do , especially if we are in the darkness of suffering . |
| 5 | The most easily quantifiable , if however the most elusive , value in these factors is money , and so not surprisingly a good deal of attention has been paid to this variable . |
| 6 | In the Aleutian island of Unimak on the 1st April 1946 , a tsunami produced by a local submarine earthquake swept away not only a massive lighthouse on a promontory nearly 10 m above the sea , but also a radio mast and coastguard station with 20 men more than 30 m up . |
| 7 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 8 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 9 | Physiotherapy was thus not previously an allowable treatment unless included in the above . |
| 10 | It was thus not just an ordinary collection of laws , as other previous collections had been , such as those of Burchard of Worms ( 1012 ) and Ivo of Chartres ( 1091 ) , but the beginning of the whole critical study of the canon law , the science of canonistics , indeed , of jurisprudence . |
| 11 | Capital is thus not only a political critique of society but it is also a criticism of the terms in which the economy was discussed at the time when he wrote , and a demonstration that these terms are moulded to the purposes of the system they pretend to analyse . |
| 12 | Yet this morning I am once more not only an unprincipled seducer , but … what ? |
| 13 | However , the concentration of people with particular demographic characteristics is clearly not just a selective effect . |
| 14 | But it 's really not just a closed coterie . |
| 15 | By providing an authoritative mark it introduces , although in embryonic form , the idea of a legal system : for the rules are now not just a discrete unconnected set but are , in a simple way , unified . |
| 16 | He concludes by suggesting that the relationship between research , policy and practice concerning offenders is often not either an equal nor an easy one and that it is not characterized by consistency . |
| 17 | well not just a tiny bit , you put about half way up do n't you Paul ? |
| 18 | There is then not only a relative gap to be filled , in these new terms , but also , from the quality of some of the work on the arts carried out from other positions , a sense of challenge : indeed a sense that it may be above all in this still major area that the qualities of the kinds of thinking represented by the contemporary convergence stand most to be tested . |
| 19 | Nothing nakedly visible , indeed not even a faltering step could be discerned during this event but the imprint was there , the unsettling moment had begun . |
| 20 | The building is therefore not only a successful piece of archaeological experimentation but also an enjoyable experience for the visitor . |
| 21 | Subject mastery is therefore not only a cognitive process — a matter of acquiring knowledge and skill — but a social one also , in which feelings of attachment , loyalty and identification are built up . |
| 22 | Though Jane — scurrilously known as ‘ hot-pants ’ — earned her share of notoriety in that year , she was also a creature of considerable balance and judgement , no fool , certainly not just a pretty face . |
| 23 | But the Earby factory itself is certainly not yet an established aeroengine service centre . |