Example sentences of "not primarily a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While not primarily a composer of chamber music , his substantial Piano Trio performed by the Joubert Trio in 1985 , would appeal to a wide audience . |
| 2 | The problem which it presents is not primarily a financial one , but a physical one . |
| 3 | A work , however , is not primarily a product , a work that is , but first and foremost genesis , work in progress . |
| 4 | This was not primarily a gesture of support for , or solidarity with , the Irish . |
| 5 | He was not primarily a bacteriologist , and instead of using the standard criterion of survival of the organism , growth in culture , he measured the uptake of oxygen by the cultivated organisms over short periods and so obtained results more quickly . |
| 6 | Although history is not primarily a vocational subject , the skills of analysis and writing which its study develops are much in demand . |
| 7 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 8 | She was not primarily a warship but did carry eight ‘ patteroes ’ , anti-personnel guns which fired a lethal scattering of stones . |
| 9 | It is not primarily a Christian problem , but a human problem . |
| 10 | Doubt is not primarily a question of particular faiths ( Should I believe this one or that one ? ) or even of the strength of faith ( Do I really believe this one or that one ? ) . |
| 11 | This social profile indicates that cattle stealing was not primarily a crime of the depressed classes . |
| 12 | First of all brittleness is not primarily a matter of the rate of loading . |
| 13 | Second , the book is not primarily a programme for change . |
| 14 | Castle Gay is not primarily a thriller in spite of its lively excitements . |
| 15 | VS Pritchett is not primarily a novelist . |
| 16 | The film is not primarily a combat movie : no attempt is made to fully identify the kind of unit the protagonists are attached to , nor is there any attempt to locate the central act in time or place . |
| 17 | Mr. Philpot travelled from Pembrokeshire for a gathering which was not primarily a fund-raising event , but rather a celebration of the building carried out over the previous fifteen years to provide extensions of both premises and facilities . |
| 18 | Marxism was not primarily a scientific method designed to uncover the mechanisms of the capitalist economy . |
| 19 | All Motor Safari 's instructors are members of the Driving Instructors Association , and the fact that two of the instructors are women proves that off-road driving is not primarily a macho pastime . |
| 20 | It is not primarily a mental disease because thought processes return to being perfectly intact in those who are in substantial recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 21 | Despite the significance of the nuclear arms race , the mutual hostility and rivalry that developed between the superpowers ( the Soviet Union and the United States ) and their allies was not primarily a military conflict , but was founded on the mutual incompatibility of socialist and capitalist economic systems . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the relationship between literature and language in the structuralist view is not primarily a negative or oppositional one , as it is in Formalist theory ; in accordance with the basic principles of structuralist theory , the relationship between the two is one of parallelism , or , to use a structuralist term , homology . |
| 23 | Only the member of the liberal professions , or the artist and intellectual who was not essentially an employer or someone with subordinates , was not primarily a ‘ master ’ . |
| 24 | The problem is not primarily a structural one — structures are dependent variables . |
| 25 | This is not primarily a find-raiser at all , but is , rather , the hospitality we like to give visitors and helpers , especially those from other churches . |
| 26 | Doubt is not primarily an abstract philosophical or theological question , nor a state of morbid spiritual or psychological anguish . |
| 27 | The Sari , however , is not primarily an initiation ceremony ; for it will be held by a great ruwang and his wife ( the ruwahu ) regardless of whether there are boys of appropriate age for initiation . |
| 28 | Whitehouse 's was not primarily an attack on homosexuals : it was in the first instance an attack on the imputation of a sexual context to Christ 's death ; in the second it was a confrontation with an anti-Christian and , to her , sexually-obsessed society , and it was this latter symbolic aspect to the events of the blasphemy trial which was the main point . |
| 29 | This requirement , not being a treatment need , was not primarily an NHS responsibility . |
| 30 | However , this study is not primarily an exercise in the refinement of science . |