Example sentences of "not [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our own Planning Committee County Council Planning Committee recommends route A on environmental and ecological grounds and route A is the popular choice the town speak and the Brandon Action Group and indeed the Suffolk member of Parliament , however the Norfolk County Council and the Weeting Parish Council oppose for the day and the Norfolk Member of Parliament supports their case , worth noting that Breckland District Council , the local planning authority in Norfolk also opposes for a day , now though it appears to be so this is not altogether a case of |
| 2 | The phenomenon of popular authoritarianism is not altogether the invention of frightened bourgeois liberals . |
| 3 | He was not wholly a man of nostalgia , and the road accident which cost him his son at the age of 21 all but destroyed his religious faith . |
| 4 | The ability to propagate cracks freely under a small stress was not wholly a disadvantage to primitive man who was thus able to shape flint and obsidian , which are more or less natural glasses , into various cutting tools . |
| 5 | The Labour party has attracted largely but not wholly the support of the working class , and the Conservative party that of the middle class . |
| 6 | The Labour government , then , was not wholly the prisoner of dogma . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yet it was clear that Branson was not properly a creature of the industry in the manner of his contemporaries . |
| 10 | On the other hand we can decide that this is not properly an intervention at all , but the paraphrased rendering of an insight about language whose formulation belongs not to de Man but to Proust . |
| 11 | He cites ‘ the interest of scholarship and fair-mindedness ’ , which are as it happens rather grand terms , but is it not rather a matter of free speech than of insinuation or imprecation ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Once comedy was given the incentive to develop it soon leapt ahead of the dramatic film : suddenly there emerged a handful of geniuses and this was not entirely a matter of chance . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , this attitude was probably not entirely a matter of hubris since the Treasury may well have had genuine doubts as to the potential effectiveness of planning [ Brittan , 1971 ] . |
| 15 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 16 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 17 | The gymslip Lolita is not entirely a figment of the male imagination . |
| 18 | His was not entirely a list of subjects and their meanings , and he preferred to make the interpretation by considering a sequence of dreams , and even the personality and circumstances of the dreamer . |
| 19 | The excitement of the cows was not entirely a reaction to the discomfort of being driven along hard and dusty roads . |
| 20 | Contrary to popular belief , the problem of fertility is not entirely the responsibility of the woman . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This is not entirely the result of political control , since the privately owned press shows no greater inclination towards investigative journalism . |
| 24 | So even when homophobia is not obviously a projection of repressed desire , being more a hostile response to the intolerably different , even then , the homosexual , through condensed association , may be one on whom is projected the repressed disgust inherent in desire . |
| 25 | The ‘ toughness ’ of plants is not necessarily a characteristic of either angiosperms or gymnosperms. as it seems that plants struggling to make themselves ever more unpalatable , grew ‘ tougher ’ as time passed . |
| 26 | But in order to do this , it is necessary to have the backing of a majority of the shareholders who would vote on the issue ( not necessarily a majority of the shareholders ) . |
| 27 | The authority will be purchasers and enablers of care , but not necessarily a provider of care . |
| 28 | The father in one family , himself a compositor with both a son and daughter following his trade , was described as " a first-class workman , clever , thoughtful and well-read … he is in the Trade Union " and also attended Labour Party meetings ( indicating incidentally that it was not necessarily a sign of disaffection from the union for a comp to send his daughter to the trade ) . |
| 29 | They often had this sort of conversation , and Constance always made allowances for Scarlet 's naivety : such slowness on the uptake was the result of a sheltered background and not necessarily a sign of limited intelligence , though she sometimes wondered . |
| 30 | Geoff Nicholas has proved that being disabled is not necessarily a handicap on the golf course . |