Example sentences of "not quite [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knowing use of the conventions of the detective story to write something that is not quite a detective story not only follows a rather well-established practice in post-war Italian writing , of which the novels of Gadda and Sciascia are the best-known examples ( cf. |
| 2 | Callers from the street were dealt with by a doorkeeper who either encouraged or discouraged them , depending on how they looked , and entered his impressions in an official diary : ‘ not quite a gentleman … — but would do well for Gold Coast ’ was a typical entry of 1899 . |
| 3 | Not quite a Jew — although the blood of my mother makes me as Jewish as any ben Issachar — not quite a Gentile . |
| 4 | She did not look so gaunt and old , and her lips were red and full , and curved , like a smile but not quite a smile . |
| 5 | Not not quite a law for the rich and law for the poor , |
| 6 | It 's just that it 's not quite a correlation yet . |
| 7 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 8 | Not quite a Jew — although the blood of my mother makes me as Jewish as any ben Issachar — not quite a Gentile . |
| 9 | Disconcertingly , however , Thomas Kuhn 's account of the development of science in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions makes a strong case for a third kind , even if not quite a kind which would suit Newton . |
| 10 | This was not quite a case of the bitten getting up and rewarding the biter because Kent exposed Hollwyood , which is not quite the British movie industry . |
| 11 | She was n't like the other beggars , not quite a supplicant ; fairer than the maids and with her head uncovered . |
| 12 | Not quite a puppy , but one , say about six months old . ’ |
| 13 | It is not quite a handicap system either but the point is that some sufferers can , for instance , swim better than others and may therefore go up a classification . |
| 14 | NOT QUITE A HOMUNCULUS |
| 15 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 16 | In this article Malcolm Payne maps , with considerable skill and brevity , the elements of a history of psychodynamic theory in social work ; a review of the current importance of such theory ; and finally outlines not quite a manifesto but at least several strategies to further the influence of psychodynamic theory . |
| 17 | So what 's so special about an alkali that 's not quite a special about a base . |
| 18 | there 'd be a not quite a specialist application to Carniki , Carniki will be linked to UFAF |
| 19 | I had a dream that was not quite a dream . |
| 20 | Not quite a donkey but Wallaces goal to win the league at Sheff Utd will probably go down as the jammiest ever in my book . |
| 21 | It was not quite a desert Maginot line , but a solid enough substitute , with the artillery component sometimes consisting of battle tanks sitting hull-down in specially excavated ‘ scrapes ’ . |
| 22 | The story of the golden calf is not quite a complaint story , though it is more terrible than any of them , and as it proceeds shares many of their features , particularly those of the one in Numbers 14 . |
| 23 | DAVID WHITAKER 's appointment , picking up the gauntlet of Newman 's challenge to make Doctor Who a science fiction Theatre-of-the-Air , was not quite a moment instantly recognisable as a turning point in Television history . |
| 24 | I have just received a request ( not quite a demand ) from Expotel for £350 ( +10% commission on bookings ) to join its hotel database , otherwise I risk falling off its screens . |
| 25 | This was more than a shame , if not quite a disaster , for it was Durham 's first seminal moment in cricket . |
| 26 | At 14 a girl is no longer a child and not quite a woman . |
| 27 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Ken was back on the London stage once more — with the role of one of the ugly sisters in the London Coliseum 's production of Cinderella — which , despite his and other interpretations was not quite a pantomime . |
| 29 | He gestured to lockers where rudimentary padded armour hung not quite a Scout 's attire . |
| 30 | Well , not quite a baby . |