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 | Arthur de la Mare of the British Foreign Office remarked that one of the most noteworthy features of the broadcast by Hugh Borton and Edwin Martin was Borton 's admission that the failure of the Joint Commission was not entirely an American responsibility , ‘ nor was it entirely the Russians ’ . |
| 19 | The seventy one year old judge caused uproar in June when he said an eight year old victim of a sex attack was not entirely an angel herself . |
| 20 | A SEX offender escaped jail yesterday after a judge said the eight-year-old girl he abused was ‘ not entirely an angel ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you . |
| 22 | A JUDGE with several controversial statements behind him was under fresh attack last night after saying an eight year-old sex offence victim was ‘ not entirely an angel . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you . |
| 24 | THE ATTORNEY General Sir Nicholas Lyell is to review the sentence of a sex offender who was spared jail after a judge said his eight-year-old victim was ‘ not entirely an angel . ’ |
| 25 | A GIRL today hit back at the judge who let her sex attacker walk free because she was ‘ not entirely an angel ’ . |