Example sentences of "not be [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could not be just the billowing Circassian trousers , though it is true I find trousers on women an anaphrodisiac . |
| 2 | Clinton 's wife Hillary one of America 's top lawyers has already made it clear she will not be just the mild , meek First Lady . |
| 3 | It need not be exactly the same work but must be of the same nature and capacity and at the same place . |
| 4 | Hodge argues therefore that women 's epistemological position can not be exactly the same as men 's . |
| 5 | Now it it just possible and I will explain in a moment why , that the necessity to avoid the greenbelt may not be exactly the same as being beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt . |
| 6 | ‘ It might not be exactly the same players who line up against Australia , ’ stressed Fletcher . |
| 7 | He might not be quite the regal material the Tongan people were looking for , and as his wheezing old father — born in 1918 , still fit , but neither infallible nor immortal — tottered around the herbaceous borders , I fancied , or perhaps dreaded , that soon we might see the kingdom fall and a republic rise in its place , and the monarchy he represented fall victim to the spirit of the age , as ancient and outworn as Captain Cook 's old tortoise . |
| 8 | The total number of schools associated with the various projects is small , and , while even these may not continue to incorporate the new ideas in their user education , they have been sufficiently exposed to new approaches to schools user education to suggest that for them at least and probably for many other schools traditional school library instruction will not be quite the same again . |
| 9 | From 1997 chemistry laboratories will not be quite the same . |
| 10 | Theodora could see the minds of her clerical superiors weighing up their own list of priorities which , she guessed , might not be quite the same as the Inspector 's . |
| 11 | You might not be technically the best man on the job , but there 's a whole back-up organization for this . ’ |
| 12 | It wo n't be just the three of us , will it ? |
| 13 | They arranged to meet for lunch , and she said , ‘ But I might as well warn you , it wo n't be just the three of us . |
| 14 | Yeah but they wo n't be exactly the same in shops . |
| 15 | Perhaps , well if it 's snowing it wo n't be quite the same . |