Example sentences of "not essentially a " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist .
2 It was not essentially a narrative : the battles , the poems about incidents in the struggles between Zuwaya of Ajkharra and Berbers of Awjla , or Tibbu of Kufra and Rabiana , served to show how Zuwaya acted in the past , and how a tribe should be in order to survive without government and authority .
3 On August 19th , Palme Dutt — revealing a capacity to assess political realities independently of the Moscow line which , in all his long years as Britain 's foremost guardian of Communist orthodoxy , he was seldom to repeat — insisted the issue was ‘ not essentially a revolutionary class issue , but simply an expression of war-weariness and horror at the prospect of being dragged into another war . ’
4 This is not surprising , for the job of the liberal state was to maintain and promote the liberal society , which was not essentially a democratic or an equal society .
5 Following the question by the right hon. Member for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) , is there not essentially a double standard when one delegation can bring whomsoever it likes to the talks , whether those people were born in the Soviet Union or the United States , and another delegation is told whom it can and whom it can not bring ?
6 Indeed , as far as this study is concerned , multimedia is not essentially a technological issue .
7 Well I think , you know , it 's not essentially a political play .
8 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 ’ .
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