Example sentences of "not entirely a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , as the operation wore on , badly in need of justification , peace became one of the chief pretexts for it ; and not entirely a pretext . |
| 2 | The excitement of the cows was not entirely a reaction to the discomfort of being driven along hard and dusty roads . |
| 3 | The gymslip Lolita is not entirely a figment of the male imagination . |
| 4 | The Ranger series of spacecraft for impacting the Moon were not entirely a success story ; but the soft landing Surveyors , which followed them , were . |
| 5 | ‘ Not entirely a failure , ’ she said . |
| 6 | In the view of many discerning pop fans , The Farm are , of course , shite , the most recent and worst atrocity being their ‘ reading ’ ( or should we say brief flick through , glancing at the pictures ) of ‘ Do n't You Want Me ’ , which , contrary to popular belief , is not entirely a third-rate copy of the Human League original . |
| 7 | Once comedy was given the incentive to develop it soon leapt ahead of the dramatic film : suddenly there emerged a handful of geniuses and this was not entirely a matter of chance . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , this attitude was probably not entirely a matter of hubris since the Treasury may well have had genuine doubts as to the potential effectiveness of planning [ Brittan , 1971 ] . |
| 9 | Even so , the question of the ‘ pistol gangs ’ was not entirely a mare 's nest . |
| 10 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 11 | His was not entirely a list of subjects and their meanings , and he preferred to make the interpretation by considering a sequence of dreams , and even the personality and circumstances of the dreamer . |
| 12 | Haverford was not entirely a fool . |
| 13 | It is perhaps not entirely a coincidence that his question was due to be answered today and the representations from the two trade unions arrived in the Department yesterday . |
| 14 | I 'm not entirely a playboy , and I 'm better than Tom Holdfast at some of the things we have to do . |
| 15 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 16 | This was not entirely a semantic shift , and was to foreshadow a much wider change in attitude to the relationship between the state and the economy , which was to be felt throughout the 1980s . |
| 17 | The case is not entirely a private family matter since it has very serious implications for society as a whole . |
| 18 | ‘ At least she is n't entirely a product of his imagination . |