Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these things are what the Childrens Act is about , but it 's not presumably what the Conservative Government is about . |
| 2 | And so would Brown who , busy demolishing a sausage roll , observed through flaky lips : ‘ But it 's not necessarily what the relatives want . ’ |
| 3 | For instance , in good planning the teacher would take into -account , not only what the students would be doing and receiving in his subject and his periods , but with other teachers in other subjects at other times of the day . |
| 4 | Yet is that not exactly what the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) and his hon. Friends are advocating , through the establishment of a national investment bank and a host of other measures — despite the fact that the hon. Gentleman has never done a day 's work in industry in his life ? |
| 5 | It is part of a drive towards ‘ ability ’ in computer systems , a belated acknowledgement that designers should address not just what the system should do but also who will use it , how frequently , what tasks they must perform , what environment it will be used in ( eg quiet or noisy , light or dark ) , and what the critical success factors are ( eg speed or accuracy ) . |
| 6 | As Golding was to remark in Stockholm in 1983 , on receiving the Nobel prize for literature , fiction has far more to do with the general mind of mankind than with the writer 's own quirks and obsessions : ‘ not just what the writer is thinking , but what a huge segment of the world is thinking . ’ |
| 7 | But that 's not really what the targets are focused on . |
| 8 | Hamilton had great hopes for quaternions but they were not quite what the physicists wanted . |
| 9 | But is this triple message , taken home by the Paraclete in the apostolic mission , not precisely what the Johannine Christ proclaims throughout the Gospel , and particularly in a passage like 9:35- 41 ? |
| 10 | There was a paper , the Villager , but a parish pump periodical was n't really what the place needed . |
| 11 | Once the design is safely stored in the computer 's memory additions and alterations can be tried without wasting valuable raw materials or creating a product that simply is n't quite what the customer expected . |
| 12 | Now , additions and alterations can be tried without wasting valuable raw materials or creating a product that simply is n't quite what the customer expected . |