Example sentences of "not a complete " in BNC.

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1 While not a complete substitute for manure or compost , it is of particular use to those who find bulky animal manure hard to come by .
2 It is not a complete description of the law .
3 As this develops it will be helpful ; but it is not a complete solution , for institutions will never be sufficiently well-equipped to intervene in the thousands of firms they own .
4 The emergence in the 1930s of such writers , in touch with and impressed by the modernists , suggests that any lapse in the experimental tradition at the time was not a complete one .
5 While the paths b 1 and b 2 are the focus of our attention , it is also important to remember the other causes which lead to people attending selective secondary schools : class membership is not a complete determinant of who goes to these schools , since some working class children do attend .
6 It 's a help , but not a complete solution to the problem because once chlorine has been released in the stratosphere , it persists for many years and goes on destroying ozone .
7 The National Curriculum is certainly not a complete curriculum , it stated : the whole curriculum must include for all pupils ( and in some cases at all stages ) areas of learning which , though not separately identified , are nonetheless ‘ clearly required ’ .
8 The worst thing was that the tape was on metal spools and the resulting damage was not a complete wipe : there were still tantalising fragments of the recording left where the tape had been under the metal ‘ spokes ’ of the reel , I would be interested to know if this legend is true .
9 Homoeopathy is not a complete system of medicine but a system of therapeutics — that is , a system of administering drugs .
10 At least , he thought , he supposed he must be grateful that she was not a complete agoraphobic like her mother .
11 Unfortunately this is more often than not a complete failure , as the weakest is bullied to death , followed by the next weakest and so on , until only one remains .
12 Although not a complete survey , the ninety-seven paintings assembled by Adriani , director of the Kunsthalle , and Walter Feilchenfeldt , a Swiss dealer who inherited from his father the archives of the Cassirer Gallery in Berlin with account books tracing sales of paintings by Cezanne , are balanced chronologically and include both of revered icons and surprises .
13 Participant observation is just one method of collecting data , not a complete strategy for social research ( see p. 14 ) .
14 Even if we can show that this mapping occurs , it is not a complete answer , since we then need a theory of how operations conducted at the neural level translate into behavioural subprocesses .
15 A quick check of all the extremities of the aircraft will be a good indicator though not a complete one .
16 However , the changes were not a complete break with the past .
17 While colours in clothes can glitter and clash without restraint , the secret for make-up is to think of a flash of brilliance amongst the neutrals , not a complete exotic plumage .
18 If , however , there are always general substantive assumptions being made , which are not at the mercy of experience , because they govern the interpretations of experience , then the diagram is not a complete model of scientific method .
19 There was subordination , but not a complete fusion ; for Bacon was perfectly aware of subject boundaries , differentiating mathematics itself from grammar , perspective , experimental science , and moral philosophy .
20 Here , although the description is detailed , some practical points are missing — it is not a complete workman 's blue-print .
21 First , employment data is a derivative of production , not a complete account of it .
22 It is not a complete set .
23 However , simply overlapping the engineering stages is not a complete answer .
24 Not a complete programme by any means , but necessary and crucial components of a restructuring on socialist terms which would break the stalemate .
25 That is not a complete explanation for Athens ' continuing preoccupation with Sicily , which culminated in the great expedition of 415 , but may be relevant to the first contacts .
26 Thus although it is true to say more Blacks chose to be committed to the Crown Court for trial this was certainly not a complete explanation of the difference , as magistrates also committed more cases .
27 This is not a complete statement of what in fact happened .
28 One remembers when David Graveney and John Childs both played for Gloucestershire ; the inclusion of two slow left-arm bowlers is not a complete rarity .
29 I 'm not a complete innocent .
30 Thus , general relativity is not a complete theory .
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