Example sentences of "not [adv] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 3 | profits have continued to represent about one-third of the turnover ; this is seen as not necessarily the highest proportion of profits to income in the headhunting business as a whole , where estimates of 60% have been made in some cases . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , the workmen were not necessarily the hapless victims of exploitation . |
| 5 | By contrast , the decision making system in the United States can only be described as ramshackle ; however , rationality and efficiency are not necessarily the first priorities of a democratic political system , especially one as vast and heterogeneous as the United States . |
| 6 | But to handle them directly , that is , to open up the central issue that arouses the pain , sensationalism or the controversy is not necessarily the best way of protecting children into emotion . |
| 7 | But it does appear that asking people what things mean is not necessarily the best way of tapping their semantic knowledge . |
| 8 | This is not necessarily the best way of passing on the good news , but it does stir the passers-by to find not the paid priests but the cobbler , the miner , the man who sells meat fritters telling them about Jesus . |
| 9 | The idea of ‘ opponents ’ and the ‘ winner take-all ’ attitude inherent in it is not necessarily the best form of decision-making for social welfare cases . |
| 10 | Rildia Bee is easy to spot from any distance because she always wears floor-length dresses of silk brocade and a mink stole — which , air-conditioning or otherwise , is not necessarily the obvious choice of outfit in Fort Worth . |
| 11 | This poses problems because the market rate of exchange is not necessarily the ideal measure of the relative values of the goods and services consumed in each country . |
| 12 | All of us , all human beings , have the same set of DNA addresses , but not necessarily the same contents of those addresses . |
| 13 | The ability to use an organized collection of materials , including an understanding of the existence of subject arrangement ( though not necessarily the full details of any one such arrangement , such as the Dewey classification ) , and the ability to " browse skilfully " . |
| 14 | A lot of the problems of alleged and actual extremism by local councils might , of course , be solved by changing the local voting system ( not necessarily the thin end of a nation wedge ) but Mrs Thatcher will never consider that . |
| 15 | Technology was to transform not only the actual level of the land , but also the fine details of the wetland landscapes . |
| 16 | This ‘ black day ’ , as he later called it , convinced the neutral ( and strongly socialist ) Barth that not only the political ideals of his teachers , but their underlying theology too , could have no future . |
| 17 | Appealing for faith and confidence , the parable invites the hearer to see in Jesus ’ followers the seed of the vast communion of the saved … out of this unprepossessing band of disciples is destined to come the restored people , not only the lost sheep of Israel 's house , but the nations , as well , ( Meyer 1979:164 ) . |
| 18 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 19 | But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics . |
| 20 | Dr van der Merwe 's bones or , rather , those of the Crow Indians of the Ohio valley , are helping to trace the spread of maize across the Americas and establish how , by the time that the conquistadores arrived , it was powering not only the imperial civilisations of Mexico , but the modest villages of what was shortly to become New England . |
| 21 | By casting our gaze around the diocese , we see not only the great efforts of the past , but the reality of the present which speaks to us not only of the love and faith of one good man , but of God 's unchanging love and compassion towards us all . |
| 22 | Rituals showed honour and reverence for the dead , not only the traditional laying of flowers , but the weaving into the fence of scarves and team colours which had intimate meaning for this occasion . |
| 23 | The Weimar Republic suffered the same fate : ‘ not only the total triumph of Hitler , but also the more moderate anti-parliamentarians of de Gaulle can be attributed in no small degree to malaise about the discontinuity in the politics of parliamentary governments ’ . |
| 24 | Not only the total amount of phospholipids but also the molecular species has profound influences on cholesterol carriers and nucleation in bile . |
| 25 | As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ? |
| 26 | He recognised the law of value as that law which regulates the private commodity economy , and insisted that the law of primitive socialist accumulation is the one that regulates not only the internal workings of the state sector but also its relationship with the private sector . |
| 27 | If one adds to this not only the fictionalised account of Nizan 's existence in Les Chemins de la liberte and " Drole d'amitie " in the guise of Brunet and Schneider/Vicarios , but also the dramatised account of Nizan 's existence in Les Mains sales in the guise of Hugo and Hoederer , it is clear that Nizan played a highly significant role in Sartre 's life , and that his memory lingered long after Nizan 's death in 1940 . |
| 28 | ‘ An icon as a object of veneration , satisfies not only the religious impulses of its user but also the artistic expectations . |
| 29 | In all interpreting it is not only the technical skill of the interpreter which is important but also his attitude to the job and to the particular situation in which it has to be carried out ( R.W. Anderson , 1978 ) ; also important is his awareness of the different expression of the same meaning in different cultures ( ‘ the sense ’ of the message ; see Seleskovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | Before proceeding down these lines managers should evaluate not only the technical efficiency of such systems but , more importantly , the underlying management questions outlined in this chapter . |