Example sentences of "[coord] certainly not the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not necessarily mean that the cholesterol is the cause , or certainly not the sole cause , of heart attacks . |
| 2 | Andrew Carnegie was one of those enlightened people who provided libraries for rural areas on the mainland and certainly not the only one ; sometimes people got together under the leadership of the minister or the doctor and formed their own society . |
| 3 | You can not rely on them deputy speaker if the government is doing er in these orders er on auditors to be er the effective and certainly not the only er police force of financial institutions . |
| 4 | Not this breathtaking house , nor its even more breathtaking surroundings , and certainly not the warm , welcoming atmosphere she had been met with . |
| 5 | McLean is not the first bouncer to have been tried for Murder and certainly not the first bouncer to have been up on charges of serious violence . |
| 6 | The two speakers were the man who heads the EC Office in Edinburgh ( who spoke and did not really touch the first and certainly not the second of his two advertised subjects on the programme ) and the other one of the law partners — who was informed and effective , so it was interesting , followed by wine and superb little sandwiches and canapes . |
| 7 | International organisations have to deal with ‘ governments who in most cases do not represent their peoples , and certainly not the poor peasants ’ ( p.2 ) . |
| 8 | No section of the community , and certainly not the deaf and dumb themselves , desires to be regarded as entirely dependent upon charity . |
| 9 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 10 | It was Gunnar who won brilliantly in the rain in Belgium : his only victory , but certainly not the only one he would have scored had he lived to go on racing . |
| 11 | Mary Tyrone , perhaps the central character of the play but certainly not the sole source of discord , is a fading beauty trying to find solace from the harsh realities of the external world and internal torment in steeping herself in lost ideals and numbing herself with drugs . |
| 12 | ‘ It might have been blood but certainly not the little girl 's . |
| 13 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 14 | Instead of him just buying purely the raw commodity , you can er , change the , the degree of processing erm , the quality of , of the product , erm , so there is some scope for different product differentiation , but certainly not the same scope that there is in manufactures . |