Example sentences of "certainly [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To this day I have not played much Chinese music , and certainly not a concerto , and so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to explore that — a least to give Hsiao the encouragement to write one . ’ |
| 2 | Dave Speed , of New Town Road , Colchester , who was made redundant by printers Spottiswoode six weeks ago after 19 years with the firm , said last night : ‘ It was certainly not a Budget for jobs which is what I , and others , were hoping for . ’ |
| 3 | But to a Westerner Mr Tsurumaki is not a threatening presence , and certainly not a character from Black Rain as some of his detractors have hinted . |
| 4 | It is certainly not a tree for the impatient or faint-hearted gardener . |
| 5 | Not many people make it through to the evening meal without any snack , so , being realistic , the overweight person imagines Ms or Mr Trim indulges in a light , healthy snack such as fresh fruit in the afternoon ; certainly not a bar of chocolate . |
| 6 | It 's certainly not a north London accent . |
| 7 | It 's certainly not a guitar for everybody , and at about $1,200 it 's not cheap either , but I love it . |
| 8 | This is not a diet to do in a hurry and it is certainly not a crash diet . |
| 9 | Grainne , going cautiously through the Castle , thought that this was certainly not a journey she could have made alone . |
| 10 | The hotel restaurant — there was nowhere else to eat — could serve you with tea , coffee , bread , sardines , lettuce , carrots and potatoes , but nothing else , certainly not a meat dish — there was no fresh meat in Adrar . |
| 11 | And Skinnergate is certainly not a desert , as one trader claimed yesterday . |
| 12 | He finds it difficult , some times impossible , to make any change of direction in Government without trying to explain that it is not really a change at all and certainly not a change that Lady Thatcher would not personally have approved . |
| 13 | This is particularly evident in the work of Allen Tate , who like Ransom was a poet as well as a critic , and was certainly not a scholar of the traditional type . |
| 14 | This was certainly NOT a man capable of leading this country out of a recession created by his policies . |
| 15 | It is certainly not a decision that is justified by their findings and their reasons . |
| 16 | Human social behaviour is certainly not a subject to describe in mathematical formulas ; and to some people its study is not a ‘ true ’ science . |
| 17 | Every middle-class employee is certainly not a member of the bourgeoisie , but most sociologists would also feel that the middle class are not true proletarians either , even though they own no wealth . |
| 18 | Certainly not a whole that one |
| 19 | I enjoy a fantastic relationship with my boyfriend and I 'm certainly not a lesbian . |
| 20 | However , high population densities are certainly not a prerequisite for inequalities and a class structure to arise . |
| 21 | There 's good material in The Midas Touch , but it is certainly not a classic . |
| 22 | There is certainly not a mark on his perfectly-formed body . |
| 23 | Sugar said that the PDA was certainly not a blockbuster by the standards of the early personal computer market when the company could make a clear £300 on each machine sold : he put the total size of the UK electronic organiser market at around 200,000 units . |
| 24 | Restoration is certainly not a problem in the case of an extraordinary painting by Peter Paul Rubens recently bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum . |
| 25 | This is a severe shock to your fish and certainly not a way to maintain equilibrium . |
| 26 | Structural reform by itself , however , is unlikely to deliver the required change of direction and it is certainly not a substitute for the commitment of inside reformers to shape policy and practice . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the book contains some useful and interesting material and is certainly not a book to be ignored . |
| 28 | This is not a book for the general manager or lay reader — it is certainly not a book for the commuter or a late night read . |
| 29 | Certainly not a routine interpretation of certain symbols attached to specific meanings . |
| 30 | The tour was disappointing but looking to the longer term future of Scottish rugby it was certainly not a disaster . |