Example sentences of "not quite an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically , highly formalised patterns in wood , especially those of a purely geometric kind , fall into the category of parquetry which , though allied to marquetry , is not quite an identical craft , often requiring different techniques . |
| 2 | If there is not quite an embarrassment of riches , there is enough to make the small investor blush at the choice . |
| 3 | The Gaelic alphabet is represented by eighteen trees , beginning with A , , elm ( Ulmus ) and ending with U , , hawthorn Crataegus monogyna ) … not quite an A-to-Z of plants , for there is no Z in Gaelic . |
| 4 | ‘ Manufacturing is seen as not quite an acceptable career for educated people . |
| 5 | A particularly interesting pair of variables to which to apply this is provided by the energy E and the time t : unc At first sight this is a puzzling relation , because time is not quite an observable property of a system in the normal sense but is rather a parameter marking when an observation is made . |
| 6 | Once again the tip-toe manoeuvre — but this time it 's not quite an apology so much as an unsuccessful account . |
| 7 | The polarity between the ideals the kore-type was evolved to express and the new ideals evident here perhaps makes this moving work not quite an artistic success . |
| 8 | Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set . |
| 9 | It was not quite an oration because two days earlier speech had been phased out because it was discovered to be the ‘ root of all evil ’ , by somebody who never talked and was consequently the most unevil person in the world . |