Example sentences of "not [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 32 | This was not entirely a semantic shift , and was to foreshadow a much wider change in attitude to the relationship between the state and the economy , which was to be felt throughout the 1980s . |
| 33 | The case is not entirely a private family matter since it has very serious implications for society as a whole . |
| 34 | Arthur de la Mare of the British Foreign Office remarked that one of the most noteworthy features of the broadcast by Hugh Borton and Edwin Martin was Borton 's admission that the failure of the Joint Commission was not entirely an American responsibility , ‘ nor was it entirely the Russians ’ . |
| 35 | The seventy one year old judge caused uproar in June when he said an eight year old victim of a sex attack was not entirely an angel herself . |
| 36 | A SEX offender escaped jail yesterday after a judge said the eight-year-old girl he abused was ‘ not entirely an angel ’ . |
| 37 | ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you . |
| 38 | A JUDGE with several controversial statements behind him was under fresh attack last night after saying an eight year-old sex offence victim was ‘ not entirely an angel . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you . |
| 40 | THE ATTORNEY General Sir Nicholas Lyell is to review the sentence of a sex offender who was spared jail after a judge said his eight-year-old victim was ‘ not entirely an angel . ’ |
| 41 | A GIRL today hit back at the judge who let her sex attacker walk free because she was ‘ not entirely an angel ’ . |
| 42 | So even when homophobia is not obviously a projection of repressed desire , being more a hostile response to the intolerably different , even then , the homosexual , through condensed association , may be one on whom is projected the repressed disgust inherent in desire . |
| 43 | Excellence is not necessarily a criterion for including a picture or a sculpture in a chronological survey . |
| 44 | The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches . |
| 45 | Could that mean a great view , but not necessarily a great approach walk ? |
| 46 | Fitting replacement windows is not necessarily a job for a professional builder . |
| 47 | You see he was a hero , a social hero , a small guy , a fall guy , not necessarily a brave or courageous guy , usually the opposite . |
| 48 | But it does , by this convention , proclaim itself to be a book of a special kind , one designed to proclaim what the faithful believe about Christ , not necessarily a book which is straight narrative history in the modern mode . |
| 49 | A quiet life is not necessarily a rewarding life . |
| 50 | Home burial is not necessarily a practical option available to all pet owners . |
| 51 | A horse lacking in sensory stimulation ( not necessarily a need to chase or chew cows ! ) is likely to become very depressed or anxious , will possibly go off its food , and even become ill . |
| 52 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 53 | One had the reputation of being always drunk , and the other was a Scotsman , which was not necessarily a different thing . |
| 54 | Competition for a female or other sex object may not produce the same hierarchy as that for food , simply because a sexually aroused animal , say , is not necessarily a hungry one . |
| 55 | first , the failure of Robinson 's ( 1955 ) study to reveal an effect was not necessarily a consequence of the test procedure as DeRivera ( 1959 ) , who used stimuli and a pre-training procedure closely similar to those used by Robinson , was similarly unable to find an effect on test in spite of using a test procedure that required further associative learning . |
| 56 | Being big is not necessarily a good thing : most organisms are bacteria and very few are elephants . |
| 57 | ( Not necessarily a good thing as McCullouch , esoteric as always , often attached a McCullouch stigma to his favoured acts . |
| 58 | A change of bit ( not necessarily a stronger one ) often works wonders and this combined with correct suppling work can transform the way of going of many horses . |
| 59 | This is not necessarily a recipe for despair , however . |
| 60 | ( It should be noted that past performance is not necessarily a guide to the future . ) |