Example sentences of "not exactly a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AZEGLIO VICINI is not exactly a typical Italian , even less is he a typical Italian national team manager . |
| 2 | AZEGLIO VICINI is not exactly a typical Italian , even less is he a typical Italian national team manager . |
| 3 | Not exactly a close contest for this category . |
| 4 | But I had a very strict Mormon church upbringing and it was not exactly a taboo subject , but it was just taken for granted that you did n't do that until you got married . |
| 5 | Although not exactly a religious person , she was pained to think that a senior member of the Church of England should get ( albeit by moonlight ) a good glimpse of her sexual organs in their present somewhat engorged state . |
| 6 | Knoydart is not exactly a no-go area but should be entered with caution . |
| 7 | Lauda led the championship by 2.5 points , not exactly a comforting margin , especially when Prost again qualified ahead of Lauda : not just ahead , but five rows ahead of him . |
| 8 | To produce the same lumpy cheese sauce dish would be morbid , to say the least , and not exactly a Sunday-lunch menu . |
| 9 | I 've always been a d-i-y enthusiast , but it 's been more through lack of funds than genuine enthusiasm — not exactly a good basis for totally renovating a derelict house . |
| 10 | It may be some comfort to know that short-termism is not exactly a new concern . |
| 11 | Collaboration is not exactly a new idea . |
| 12 | Directors ' personal liability for the errors and omissions of their companies is not exactly a new problem . |
| 13 | Now , violence is not exactly a new phenomenon in society , is it ? |
| 14 | Marguerite was not exactly a motherly woman , but she was in some way comfortable . |
| 15 | It 's not exactly a right angle it 's not drawn to scale . |
| 16 | You 're not exactly a young lad any more so you 've got to pull your socks up . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you 're not exactly a mental-health testimonial , Dreamer . |
| 18 | ‘ Good Lord , he wrote books too : Foreign Debt : A Paupr 's Promise , not exactly a snappy title but it sounds as if he saw something the New York banks did n't and The Credit of Faith . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Not exactly a punishable offence . |
| 20 | It 's not exactly a Mediterranean climate . ’ |
| 21 | WHEN Boris Yeltsin last visited Britain , one of the things that really impressed him was private health care , not exactly a socialist ideal . |
| 22 | She was not exactly a romantic figure . |
| 23 | Yet for most people their MP is not exactly a conspicuous person . |
| 24 | It was not exactly a novel sentiment , but from now on the dominant message from within the Tory ranks would be that the welfare state had weakened family ties , the increase of working mothers had produced ‘ a growing decline in parental responsibility ’ , and ‘ affluence ’ had undermined the nation 's moral fibre . |
| 25 | And the Journal 's not exactly a reliable record of what happened to him — or even when it happened . |
| 26 | What is needed is not exactly a particular type of condition specified before the present occasion , but a slightly different one , which did indeed obtain previously when the wipers started . |
| 27 | I 'm not exactly a gibbering wreck , am I ? ’ |
| 28 | There is general agreement that Balder was not exactly a dynamic deity — indeed , he has been described as ‘ a passive suffering figure ’ . |
| 29 | There was something in her face that was unfamiliar ; it was not exactly a different expression — more as if her eyes were not her own . |
| 30 | Two miles to the north-west of this village near Redruth in the desolate former tin-mining region of Cornwall is Gwennap Pit which , although not exactly an industrial monument , has great significance in the social history of the local tinners , who were often ruthlessly exploited by their employers and were obvious targets for the message of Nonconformism . |