Example sentences of "not strictly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | is not strictly a spice but is a basic ingredient for many curries as well as being used extensively for cakes and desserts . |
| 2 | Though not strictly a member of the cabinet , Mr Ozawa has given the prime minister considerable support and has in effect run the government 's day-to-day business . |
| 3 | Now this is not strictly a soul food recipe , but since Philadelphia is my home town and my family has eaten its way through tons of this , I always think of it as northern soul food . |
| 4 | In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level . |
| 5 | Legally not strictly a cow , but just as strange and with a Glasgow connection is this next item . |
| 6 | It is sometimes called the Total Period Fertility Rate ( TPFR ) or Total Fertility Ratio or Index , as it is not strictly a ‘ rate ’ . |
| 7 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 8 | There was not strictly a demand colore officii in the sense defined by Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 140 . |
| 9 | A form of extendible hashing that does not suffer from oscillations and is claimed to outperform most indexing methods , was reported by Lomet He named the method bounded index exponential hashing ; it is not strictly a direct technique , and suffers from the drawback that the file packing density is generally low , but offers many advantages for files which can grow at a rate that can not be accommodated in a static system . |
| 10 | Halliday and Hasan do not discuss this type of referential linkage and Hoey ( 1988 : 162 ) points out that co-reference ‘ is not strictly a linguistic feature at all but a matter of real-world knowledge ’ . |
| 11 | Although not strictly a relaxation therapy , toning tables offer the benefits of exercise without a great deal of effort , and without the aches and pains of overstretched muscles . |
| 12 | Although perhaps not strictly a technological issue , a review of multimedia 's technological environment would be incomplete without at least a broad assessment of the influence and significance of authoring tools . |
| 13 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 14 | ROBERT Stephenson and Hawthorns Limited were not strictly a Darlington firm , but for 64 years ‘ Stivvies ’ provided employment for thousands of men in the town . |
| 15 | It 's not strictly a managerial task . |
| 16 | But I think that Jane particularly will have a view on that , because it is n't strictly a divisional issue . |