Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the statistics on intra-trade are not wholly attributable to a country 's membership of the EC . |
| 2 | But if simultaneous perceptual processing and bodily skills are not wholly intractable to a computational analysis , what of experience itself ? |
| 3 | I think this is not wholly responsible for a certain effect of fussiness in the drapery and slackness of form compared to the contemporary marble metopes of Olympia ( figs. 121–3 ) . |
| 4 | The final chapter is not entirely appropriate for a graduating RGN , as it gives advice to the graduating Canadian student nurse on job seeking , leadership and professional development . |
| 5 | This paraphrase is not entirely appropriate as a description of the meaning expressed however ; Jespersen ( 1940 : 280 ) does a better job of it when he characterizes the sense of see with the bare infinitive as that of " immediate perception " , and its sense with the to infinitive as that of " inference " . |
| 6 | There was also a genuine fear that open conflict between the two sides of the industry must be avoided ( a fear which was shown to be not entirely illusory in a subsequent reorganisation , see pp. 194–5 below ) . |
| 7 | It must be admitted , though , that it is not entirely convincing as a forum for a civitas capital ; it lacks both basilica and civic offices . |
| 8 | Kelley 's art is not entirely unknown to a British audience . |
| 9 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 10 | But , with the budget deficit seeping £1 billion a week , the Government 's response is not greatly different from a decade ago . |
| 11 | Even authoritarian regimes , if they are to last , must be able to count on some measure of consent , though not necessarily that of a majority . |
| 12 | Client record cards are not necessarily helpful to a dealer who inherits them , however . |
| 13 | Though it needs Unix software to scale the enterprise , Microsoft is not necessarily partial to a solution such as NuTcracker . |
| 14 | A currency union by eliminating the political business cycle can be said to possess anti-inflation properties which are not necessarily present in an exchange rate union . |
| 15 | It is very difficult to provide identical conditions for the measurement of six different forms of instruction , therefore it is not entirely surprising to see that Baldwin and Rudolph found , in contrast to Kuo 's results , when comparing a tape/slide show and a library tour , that the former was not necessarily superior as a method of instruction . |
| 16 | Deviation as a means of self-reference , on the other hand , can take any direction , and is not necessarily concerned with a particular kind of emotive effect , since self-reference is an end in itself . |
| 17 | The book by Clifford Joseph is in a sense the more readable and will perhaps be in more readily appreciated by the none-specialist in tax matters who wishes to understand the essentials of the tax but is not necessarily concerned with an exhaustive treatment of the subject . |
| 18 | Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) take the view that this online view of language processing is not necessarily inconsistent with a weak form of the clausal hypothesis , in that once a complete information unit ( which may not always coincide with clause boundaries ) has been interpreted , other processing which results in the freeing of working memory then takes place . |
| 19 | A right hemisphere advantage for this stage of processing is not necessarily incompatible with a left hemisphere advantage in rate of encoding . |
| 20 | Finally , bear in mind what the examiner said after a recent PE 2 Financial Accounting 2 examination — that an appreciation of the fact that the questions are not highly complex in a technical accounting sense should enable candidates to approach the examination with optimism and even , perhaps , enthusiasm ! |
| 21 | On occasions manufacturers ' software is not highly efficient for a given application , and software houses have taken advantage of this to provide alternative packages . |
| 22 | Well that 's exactly what I mean , a very good illustration of somebody who makes himself more important by coming in fifteen and a half seconds late , which is not so late for a corporate session , but is late enough to , to make everyone worry and so on in that time . |
| 23 | Yet the kind of premises favoured by small-time craftsmen look as if they were not so suitable for a spot of Miscellaneous Repos ; by the October of 1856 the Titfords were on the move yet again , this time to 15 Penton Street , Clerkenwell . |
| 24 | Wide and not so deep for an extrovert , very narrow very deep for an introvert that type of thing alright . |
| 25 | Like many consumed by a powerful love , he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative . |
| 26 | People who make such assertions do so not so much on a scientific basis , but because they have another axe to grind . |
| 27 | Unkind loyalists mocked him as ‘ not so much of a stalking horse as a stalking donkey ’ who would get only his own vote . |
| 28 | The markets were not so much of a problem for the many part-time farmers who had a good non-farm income . |
| 29 | ‘ It was not so much of a stretch for me to do that role as people might think , ’ Dustin explained . |
| 30 | While he did not exactly oppose this suggestion , he added , somewhat enigmatically , that he believed Liza 's trouble was due to circumstances quite beyond her control and that she needed the help not so much of a specialist but a sympathetic friend personally acquainted with her predicament . |