Example sentences of "not [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that , as you see , is not altogether the point ! ’ |
| 2 | The New Zealand experience suggests that those who proceed with ‘ open ’ adoption are not altogether the same as those who would have done so under the more traditional approach . |
| 3 | The phenomenon of popular authoritarianism is not altogether the invention of frightened bourgeois liberals . |
| 4 | It is clear that architecture is not altogether the same as a film or a song : for instance , both the latter make use of performers — more crucially , stars . |
| 5 | The Labour government , then , was not wholly the prisoner of dogma . |
| 6 | Thus in the light of much which has been surveyed here , it is impossible to view overmanning — the bane of British industry — as mainly if not wholly the consequence of union power . |
| 7 | A visiting fossilist from Aberdeenshire drew Johnson 's attention to a species of ash tree , enabling the great man to support his recurring arboreal obsession : ‘ The present nakedness of the Hebrides is not wholly the fault of Nature . ’ |
| 8 | Shildon reminded him that it was not wholly the fruit of his investigation for Eliot , he had a head start because he used to work for MacQuillan in Detroit . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century , the upper class comprised the traditional landed aristocracy , but it was an aristocracy that had absorbed largely if not wholly the new men of wealth who had made their money out of trade and industry . |
| 10 | The Labour party has attracted largely but not wholly the support of the working class , and the Conservative party that of the middle class . |
| 11 | Watching herself very carefully as the shaping increased at the neck , she realised how easy it was to stop just short by an inch or so and not clear the selector . |
| 12 | I think , I think we need a meeting to get it laid down , we need a meeting to clear the air or not clear the air necessarily but get some definitions some definitions down yeah ? |
| 13 | No , he 's not sure , he do n't think it is that h he 's he 's gon na cut the gas , he said it 's not right the er central heating pumps are well hot , he said it should n't be like that so he to there 's a little box up there he thinks it 's probably this box but he 's he 's trying to figure out what it is up there because he 's he 's just such amazed at price of pieces |
| 14 | Such was not apparently the view of the bulk of the membership however , and the chance was lost to try an experiment in creating greater unity while the numbers of women were still comparatively low . |
| 15 | Evil is not literally the ‘ dreaded Apollyon ’ of Bunyan 's allegory Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 16 | But if that is how God clothes the grass in the fields , which is there today , and tomorrow is thrown on the stove , will he not all the more clothe you ? |
| 17 | Given the CEGB 's assertion that it might take ‘ decades or even centuries ’ for soils to recover , Robert Jones MP wanted to know , ‘ is that not all the more reason for getting on with it as quickly as possible and on as wide a scale as possible ? , |
| 18 | Never buy a sleeping bag without first finding out whether or not all the drawcords can be pulled from the inside and the zip can be pulled freely from inside too . |
| 19 | It is open to debate whether or not all the designs traditionally ascribed to Persia are in fact Persian in origin , and there is some evidence to suggest that a number may have had earlier links with Anatolia , India or Central Asia . |
| 20 | Furthermore , since the Crown had earlier inherited Hatfield subject to the maintenance of rights of common , it was not entirely the king 's to either sell or drain . |
| 21 | Mood and emotion are not entirely the same psychological phenomenon , as emotion is capable of greater refinement and of putting a person in touch with more profound experience . |
| 22 | This is not entirely the result of political control , since the privately owned press shows no greater inclination towards investigative journalism . |
| 23 | Contrary to popular belief , the problem of fertility is not entirely the responsibility of the woman . |
| 24 | A general degree is sometimes seen as an alternative for students who are not up to honours standard ; this is largely though not entirely the case with the Scottish ordinary degree . |
| 25 | But the implications for the present case are not entirely the same . |
| 26 | However , a cash underpinning is not entirely the same thing as a vendor placing because it will not be known exactly how many shares will be the subject of a sale ; that will depend on the number of acceptances of the cash underwritten alternative . |
| 27 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 28 | It is not obviously the twitch but he does admit to a ‘ fear of missing . ’ |
| 29 | I would say always remember that what is on show is oneself , not necessarily the ability to perform brilliant characterisations . |
| 30 | As Gramsci points out , the religion of the clergy is not necessarily the religion of this or that social group of laity , whose religious interpretation is also related to their own concrete world of experience . |