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 | Original gravity ( OG ) is not strictly an indication of strength but is the measurement taken by excise officers at the start of the fermentation process to see how much sugar is present in the brew . |
| 17 | The following example , although not strictly an authenticity examination , uses the same approaches and shows the application of scientific detection in a related sphere of the British Museum 's activities . |
| 18 | Axelrod recognized that Tit for Tat is not strictly an ESS , and he therefore coined the phrase ‘ collectively stable strategy ’ to describe it . |
| 19 | Whilst not strictly an aeroplane book , it nevertheless gives the reader an overview of how land , sea and air operations were co-ordinated during the last world conflict . |
| 20 | Although draught excluders are not strictly an insulation material , they cut heat losses and improve comfort levels . |
| 21 | Waterside — A Pictorial Past , is not strictly an aeroplane book , concentrating more on the history of the parishes of Calshot , Fawley , Hythe and the surrounding areas . |
| 22 | There is a third route which , bearing in mind our concept of multimedia existing within a single , digital environment , is not strictly an exercise in multimedia as far as this study is concerned . |