Example sentences of "not [prep] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | organised by an individual or group with responsibility for this area among a number of others , but not for the whole course programme : |
| 2 | So I know when , when the ne the negotiations were originally going on was with Lyons ' coffee , for one of their coffees which came from a particular known estate not for the whole range of Lyons ' coffees . |
| 3 | He tells me there 's no work for him in Amantani , certainly not for the whole year , and he must go to Puno . |
| 4 | This will be valid for small savers but not for the whole currency . |
| 5 | Mr Winchester predictably proves his case for part of the Pacific rim , from Japan round to California , but not for the whole circumference — and certainly not for the islands dotted in the Basin , despite the charming Western Samoan girl who takes his bags at Los Angeles airport and quotes Robert Louis Stevenson to him . |
| 6 | By 1805 , when the firm had become Rundell , Bridge , & Rundell , Joseph Nightingale [ q.v. ] wrote that it exceeded ‘ all others in the British Empire , if not in the whole world , for the value of its contents ’ . |
| 7 | As you will know I may make a reference under this section when I desire the opinion of the Court , not on the whole case but on a point arising on it . |
| 8 | It 's not on the whole family . |
| 9 | There is therefore reference in the case of each candidate to his own positive ability , not to the whole class of other candidates with whom he is to be compared . |
| 10 | Bills then go through four stages in each House : a ‘ first reading ’ , which simply involves the formal presentation of the Bill ; a ‘ second reading ’ , at which there is likely to be a large-scale debate on the basic principles of the Bill ; a ‘ committee stage ’ , when the legislation is examined in detail ( normally by a small ‘ standing committee ’ and not by the whole House ) ; and a ‘ report stage ’ and ‘ third reading ’ , at which the Bill that emerges from the committee is approved , but may be re-amended to undo some of the actions of the committee . |