Example sentences of "not [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not altogether an exaggeration as he had lost much of his stomach in his operation and was supposed to be on a rigid diet . |
| 2 | These men , with stories of their womanizing , boozing and brawling , were dubbed the ‘ Rat Pack ’ by the press , not altogether an affectionate term . |
| 3 | On the other hand we can decide that this is not properly an intervention at all , but the paraphrased rendering of an insight about language whose formulation belongs not to de Man but to Proust . |
| 4 | Not thereby an unimportant art , but not an art which yields something which could be a proper object of worship . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A SEX offender escaped jail yesterday after a judge said the eight-year-old girl he abused was ‘ not entirely an angel ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | A GIRL today hit back at the judge who let her sex attacker walk free because she was ‘ not entirely an angel ’ . |
| 13 | It 's very difficult , though , to say what the right kind of photograph is , for obviously actors are very different , but remember that a good photograph is not necessarily an art photograph . |
| 14 | Reduction of waiting lists is not necessarily an indicator of improved ‘ quality ’ of care for elderly people , whose needs may go beyond a brief period of surgery and recovery . |
| 15 | In this context , although Mr Lawson supports the ERM , he too would be , no doubt , a narrow-minded nationalist when faced with the prospect of European Monetary Union , as would increasing numbers of German economists who argue on the basis of economic research that EMU is not necessarily an attractive option . |
| 16 | He makes it clear that he believes ‘ that there are higher civilizations and lower ones ’ ; the notion of Empire is ‘ not necessarily an ignoble one ’ when it is founded on ‘ the notion of extending law , justice , humanity and civilization — with no other interest than glory , and no other motive than a sense of vocation ’ . |
| 17 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 18 | Thinking thematically is in fact not necessarily an intellectual exercise . |
| 19 | In the fluid political context , nationalism was not necessarily an overriding objective , but a tentative foray , a provisional objective that , in the right circumstances , might be relinquished . |
| 20 | In the human context hard physical work is not necessarily an indicator of efficiency or performance often it is the reverse . |
| 21 | But the intention of practical English must be to ensure an understanding of what is read , not necessarily an appreciation of those aspects of it that would appeal especially to literary critics or literary historians . |
| 22 | Past results are not necessarily an indication of future performance . |
| 23 | ‘ The number of Cabinet meetings is not necessarily an index of efficiency ’ , said one who believes her brand of Cabinet government ( ‘ a president within a monarchy ’ ) is a more effective way of shifting business than the traditional collective model . |
| 24 | Youthful Roy Jenkins was recommended to fight the Hillhead election for the SDP and a judge proved that youth was not necessarily an advantage by deciding that a 17-year-old girl , a victim of rape , was guilty of contributory negligence by thumbing a lift at night . |
| 25 | Secondly , since the optimal objective function value is not necessarily an integer , we can declare a node k inactive by bounding only if is no longer enough ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Such alienation from official institutions is common to many societies with isolated peasant populations ; it was not necessarily an outgrowth of colonialism . |
| 28 | Most people never have any trouble so there is no need to be paranoid , but do be aware of the facts : the little word ‘ taxi ’ or ‘ minicab ’ written on a car is not necessarily an official certificate of good character . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mr Corley said : ‘ The typical scenario is not necessarily an explosion . |