Example sentences of "it is not [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not just an effort to raise funds to pay for the continuance of the maypole-raising , but a way of instilling the custom into the children . |
| 2 | It is not just an automatic reflection of gender . |
| 3 | The special and attractive character of the Ortiz collection is that it is not just an assemblage of objects but the coherent vision of a man who believes that the whole is more than the sum of its parts and that the collector is as creative as the artist . |
| 4 | Does he realise that it is not just an hour but a year and a half late ? |
| 5 | Er , it is not just an additional committee , on the part of the West region , it is in fact the total reorganisation of a number of meetings , and getting down to a far more business-like thing . |
| 6 | No it 's right , it is not just an application for that effect . |
| 7 | Yes , they can just give us a ring at the museum , the number is er Banbury two five nine eight double five , or to ring the library at Banbury as well , they 're involved with the publication , and what will come out of it is not just an exhibition , but a whole archive for the future , I mean I 'm sure in the past we , we would have er liked to have known more about how the canals were built perhaps . |
| 8 | The editors ' underlying theme is that retirement needs to be viewed holistically ; that it is not simply an individual transition but that it is linked to a person 's past or context and , equally importantly , to their social networks , especially family relationships . |
| 9 | It is not exactly an auspicious start ! |
| 10 | It is not exactly an auspicious beginning to our search for Victorian civility , and if we journey up North things are no better . |
| 11 | It is not yet an issue of epidemic proportions with the gays of the world about to suffer the fate of the citizens of Sodom . |
| 12 | ( It must be recognised that for one large group — that in which there is a strong belief in the sanctity and factual indissolubility of marriage — such considerations come much less easily : but in reality , even for this group , it is not now an impossibility for marital breakdown and separation , or nullification of the union , to take Place . ) |
| 13 | But it is not only an abstract thing . |
| 14 | Plausible as this argument must have sounded , it is not only an argument against natural selection . |
| 15 | It is not only an absurdity but an absurdity that victims of crime resent . |
| 16 | It is not only an appropriate response to falling numbers , but also reflects a natural convergence in the business of banks and building societies . |
| 17 | It is not necessarily an accurate description of the demands of the job , and the skill label may result more from the strength of the trade union or occupational group in maintaining that its members should continue to hold that position , than from a dispassionate assessment of the skill content of the job . |
| 18 | The ratio of the consumption of wood to steel varies considerably between different countries but it is not necessarily an index of the degree of industrialization or of technological advancement . |
| 19 | Every year a student goes to London from Hamburg with a guest scholarship , and , in keeping with the nature of the Warburg Library , it is not necessarily an art historian . |
| 20 | It is not necessarily an ideal blue-print ! |
| 21 | In sum , this brief discussion has demonstrated that there are positive reasons for state ownership and control ; it is not self-evidently an inferior alternative to state regulation . |
| 22 | This brings out the point that it is not always an easy matter to determine the functional significance of any given electrocortical event . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) Many tenants object to forfeiture provisions applying where distress or execution has been levied on its goods at the premises , as even in the best run organisations this sometimes occurs and it is not always an indication that the tenant is in financial difficulty . |