Example sentences of "not quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visiting the Notting Hill Victorian mansion of Ford Madox Ford , Eliot saw not quite a sacred grove , but a patch of grass surmounted by Gaudier-Brzeska 's ‘ Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound ’ which Wyndham Lewis described as ‘ Ezra in the form of a marble phallus ’ . |
| 2 | I have just received a request ( not quite a demand ) from Expotel for £350 ( +10% commission on bookings ) to join its hotel database , otherwise I risk falling off its screens . |
| 3 | The story of the golden calf is not quite a complaint story , though it is more terrible than any of them , and as it proceeds shares many of their features , particularly those of the one in Numbers 14 . |
| 4 | This was not quite a true story , he admitted , just a joke to raise Secord 's morale . |
| 5 | The knowing use of the conventions of the detective story to write something that is not quite a detective story not only follows a rather well-established practice in post-war Italian writing , of which the novels of Gadda and Sciascia are the best-known examples ( cf. |
| 6 | Not quite a personal friend , but close . |
| 7 | NOT QUITE A HOMUNCULUS |
| 8 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 9 | Callers from the street were dealt with by a doorkeeper who either encouraged or discouraged them , depending on how they looked , and entered his impressions in an official diary : ‘ not quite a gentleman … — but would do well for Gold Coast ’ was a typical entry of 1899 . |
| 10 | At 14 a girl is no longer a child and not quite a woman . |
| 11 | He gestured to lockers where rudimentary padded armour hung not quite a Scout 's attire . |
| 12 | Disconcertingly , however , Thomas Kuhn 's account of the development of science in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions makes a strong case for a third kind , even if not quite a kind which would suit Newton . |
| 13 | there 'd be a not quite a specialist application to Carniki , Carniki will be linked to UFAF |
| 14 | DAVID WHITAKER 's appointment , picking up the gauntlet of Newman 's challenge to make Doctor Who a science fiction Theatre-of-the-Air , was not quite a moment instantly recognisable as a turning point in Television history . |
| 15 | In conclusion , brief reference must be made to Douglas Trumbull 's directorial debut , Silent Running ( 1971 ) , an ecological flop d ‘ éstime that can no longer be considered underrated , though not quite a cult film . |
| 16 | The Council then was not quite a ‘ cross-section ’ of Athenians , but contained disproportionately many rich , determined politicians ; and lobbies , political dynasties or mafias could perpetuate themselves over the years despite the restrictions on re-election ( so the contrast with , for example , the Roman Senate is not after all total ) . |
| 17 | So what 's so special about an alkali that 's not quite a special about a base . |
| 18 | Well , not quite a baby . |
| 19 | She was n't like the other beggars , not quite a supplicant ; fairer than the maids and with her head uncovered . |
| 20 | She did not look so gaunt and old , and her lips were red and full , and curved , like a smile but not quite a smile . |
| 21 | It is not quite a parasitic relationship ; rather , the plant produces extra , and usually extremely characteristic , growth in order to contain the invader , and limit its damage . |
| 22 | In this article Malcolm Payne maps , with considerable skill and brevity , the elements of a history of psychodynamic theory in social work ; a review of the current importance of such theory ; and finally outlines not quite a manifesto but at least several strategies to further the influence of psychodynamic theory . |
| 23 | So it was quite an upset , though not quite a mortal blow , when shortly after Twomey 's departure , she took to having very funny turns , sometimes active , sometimes depressive . |
| 24 | What had come through was not quite a complete Terry Place , but one substantially still himself He remained in the intensive care unit of the local hospital and under police guard . |
| 25 | They were not quite a secret society but certainly a network , not always trusted , not , indeed , acceptable to some bishops and in some livings . |
| 26 | Not quite a Jew — although the blood of my mother makes me as Jewish as any ben Issachar — not quite a Gentile . |
| 27 | Not quite a Jew — although the blood of my mother makes me as Jewish as any ben Issachar — not quite a Gentile . |
| 28 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 29 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 30 | I had a dream that was not quite a dream . |