Example sentences of "not exactly an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not exactly an auspicious start ! |
| 2 | Frisch is not exactly an existentialist , but his book is shot through with a certain emotionally short-circuiting ennui , a weary horror that life is nothing but a random yet poignant series of coincidences . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Slavery was not exactly an enviable affair , its memory haunts much of our literature and is aggravated by the recent Colonial past of many nations . |
| 5 | Not exactly an avalanche , and no Beethoven . |
| 6 | It is not exactly an auspicious beginning to our search for Victorian civility , and if we journey up North things are no better . |