Example sentences of "certainly not the [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is of importance is certainly not the idea of physicality as some ‘ ultimate constraint ’ or final determining factor , but rather the manner in which everyday objects continually assert their presence as simultaneously material force and symbol . |
| 2 | ‘ So , ’ he went on , his eyes missing nothing , she thought , certainly not the sparks of anger in hers , ‘ tell me , what 's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this ? ’ |
| 3 | That might be the heart of Europe , but it is certainly not the heart of socialism . |
| 4 | And he was certainly not the kind of man she would want as a father for her daughter ! |
| 5 | While this solution lurked in the consciousness of a large number of US citizens and was eventually to appeal to Hitler and the SS , it was not the kind of thing the Americans admitted or believed about themselves , and was certainly not the kind of solution they wished to offer to their civilised European cousins . |
| 6 | ‘ It is certainly not the kind of letter you write if you 're feeling suicidal . |
| 7 | To counter the first fear of specialisation , ‘ disabling ’ clients is certainly not the objective of casework , and advisers must resist the personal satisfaction that they may get from acting on behalf of a client when that client may well have been able to cope with assistance alone . |
| 8 | It was certainly not the sort of thing you did at the BBC . |