Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Zealand experience suggests that those who proceed with ‘ open ’ adoption are not altogether the same as those who would have done so under the more traditional approach . |
| 2 | It is clear that architecture is not altogether the same as a film or a song : for instance , both the latter make use of performers — more crucially , stars . |
| 3 | In the nineteenth century , the upper class comprised the traditional landed aristocracy , but it was an aristocracy that had absorbed largely if not wholly the new men of wealth who had made their money out of trade and industry . |
| 4 | Given the CEGB 's assertion that it might take ‘ decades or even centuries ’ for soils to recover , Robert Jones MP wanted to know , ‘ is that not all the more reason for getting on with it as quickly as possible and on as wide a scale as possible ? , |
| 5 | Mood and emotion are not entirely the same psychological phenomenon , as emotion is capable of greater refinement and of putting a person in touch with more profound experience . |
| 6 | But the implications for the present case are not entirely the same . |
| 7 | However , a cash underpinning is not entirely the same thing as a vendor placing because it will not be known exactly how many shares will be the subject of a sale ; that will depend on the number of acceptances of the cash underwritten alternative . |
| 8 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 9 | A Cathedral is the principal church of a Diocese , not necessarily the largest or most magnificent . |
| 10 | I think British Airways offer a fair deal erm but it 's not necessarily the largest deal , they invest a lot in in their service and what they do , and I think erm Virgin do offer generous deals . |
| 11 | In addition , as Stiglitz points out , the managerial labour market is not necessarily the powerful constraining force many believe it to be ; biases exist there also . |
| 12 | A further corollary which has figured largely in our studies is the idea that the best , though not necessarily the ultimate , authorities as to what the action ‘ actually ’ is , are the actors themselves . |
| 13 | Equally the mere presence of further equivalences at other levels of the text , however intricate and profuse , may simply constitute one among many possible distinguishing features , and not necessarily the essential one , of poetry . |
| 14 | profits have continued to represent about one-third of the turnover ; this is seen as not necessarily the highest proportion of profits to income in the headhunting business as a whole , where estimates of 60% have been made in some cases . |
| 15 | The people who take this job on , are not necessarily the highest achievers , they tend to be looking for a job with a particular interest in that and are sort of reliable and conscientious people . |
| 16 | These were not necessarily the shy or reserved ones , who were quite likely to be snapped up by ‘ parents ’ who were looking for a quiet life . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , the workmen were not necessarily the hapless victims of exploitation . |
| 18 | In keeping with what Fun Run founder Norman Harris sees as the original principles of the event , it 'll reward overall performances by a team — not necessarily the fastest team , but the one which has the best spread of age-group competitors . |
| 19 | Yet , as events had invariably shown , numerical superiority in attack was not necessarily the deciding factor in the face of modern artillery and machine-guns . |
| 20 | Provision of 52-week accommodation but not necessarily the additional focus on care , or a series of different short-term holiday placements , can lead to fragmentation of the children 's lives and inadequate preparation for the adult world . |
| 21 | That is certain as people begin to understand that the valuation given to their property is not necessarily the actual property value . |
| 22 | The interests of the children , although not necessarily the paramount consideration , must , in my opinion , always be taken into account and will always be important . |
| 23 | Two lucky winner will be able to choose a brand-new , fully-fitted , state-of-the-art kitchen from Magnet 's extensive range ( not necessarily the two shown here ) , planned and fitted to their own requirements and equipped with the Neff appliances of their choice . |
| 24 | Results are obtained but at the cost of personal relationships and the outcomes are not necessarily the optimum possible . |
| 25 | The most probable effect of exposure to light is a change of colour , but this is not necessarily the only or even the most important effect . |
| 26 | The play may be the thing , but not necessarily the only thing . |
| 27 | In order to illustrate that a reductionist view of physics is not necessarily the only one available , it is necessary to juxtapose the above quote , with the following , from Dr G , a senior lecturer at Department A : |
| 28 | ‘ Secondly , that we regard public ownership not as an end in itself but as a means — and not necessarily the only or the most important one to certain ends — such as full employment , greater equality and higher productivity . ’ |
| 29 | Leading African civil servants entrusted with the day-to-day execution of policy over the last twenty years know that these are not necessarily the major problems . |
| 30 | More importantly for long-run , strategic competitiveness , US firms have emphasised technologies best suited to their home markets , not necessarily the global ones . |