Example sentences of "not [adv] a [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
3 | Yet it was clear that Branson was not properly a creature of the industry in the manner of his contemporaries . |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 ] . |
7 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
8 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
9 | The gymslip Lolita is not entirely a figment of the male imagination . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | The authority will be purchasers and enablers of care , but not necessarily a provider of care . |
15 | 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 ) . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Pearce ( 1988 ) , writing about the use of touch in an intensive care unit , differentiates between instrumental touch ( deliberate , physical contact needed to perform a specific task such as washing a patient or dressing a wound ) and expressive touch ( a relatively spontaneous and affective contact which is not necessarily a component of a physical task , such as holding a patient 's hand during a painful procedure ) . |
18 | It must be stressed , in this connection , that the ‘ poetic ’ text in question is not necessarily a part of what is normally described as poetry , but can be any form of literature that possesses aesthetic or artistic properties . |
19 | It is not necessarily a case of Russian versus Western temperament . |
20 | If Labour MPs are known to have views which are not necessarily a reflection of the opinions of Labour voters , less attention can be paid to them . |
21 | The outward religious respectability of the leading personalities of the Enlightenment in Spain is not necessarily a proof of their innocence of real hostility to the Church : the Inquisition , weak though it was , combined with stiff royal censorship to make the public expression of heterodox views an impossibility . |
22 | Thus , in moral deliberation it is not necessarily a confusion of validity and truth to give weight to the way in which a decision is reached as well as or perhaps rather than to the content of the decision reached . |
23 | Boundedness is not necessarily a quality of the process of institution itself : the same process or institution will not be beyond the boundary to those who are a part of it ; to them , it will be a part of everyday experience , while to others , not a part of it , it will be beyond the boundaries of home-ground . |
24 | Thus there have been changes over time in patterns of support between generations , but these are not necessarily a result of individuals ' changing beliefs and values about family responsibilities . |
25 | Although the overall levels of recall in this study are relatively uninformative because the subjects knew that there would be subsequent memory questions , the dissociation between fixation and recall strengthens Summala and Hietamiki 's claim that low levels of recall are not necessarily a result of failures of perception . |
26 | This is not necessarily a matter of money . |
27 | It was not necessarily a world of fantasy . |
28 | first , the failure of Robinson 's ( 1955 ) study to reveal an effect was not necessarily a consequence of the test procedure as DeRivera ( 1959 ) , who used stimuli and a pre-training procedure closely similar to those used by Robinson , was similarly unable to find an effect on test in spite of using a test procedure that required further associative learning . |
29 | When I was asking them which was their favourite area , not unsurprisingly a couple of them mentioned the Lake District — anytime except in the summer holidays . |
30 | To own land was to possess , not only a symbol of status , but also the most prized source of wealth and power . |