Example sentences of "not [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the nineteenth century , the upper class comprised the traditional landed aristocracy , but it was an aristocracy that had absorbed largely if not wholly the new men of wealth who had made their money out of trade and industry . |
| 2 | In addition , as Stiglitz points out , the managerial labour market is not necessarily the powerful constraining force many believe it to be ; biases exist there also . |
| 3 | A further corollary which has figured largely in our studies is the idea that the best , though not necessarily the ultimate , authorities as to what the action ‘ actually ’ is , are the actors themselves . |
| 4 | Equally the mere presence of further equivalences at other levels of the text , however intricate and profuse , may simply constitute one among many possible distinguishing features , and not necessarily the essential one , of poetry . |
| 5 | These were not necessarily the shy or reserved ones , who were quite likely to be snapped up by ‘ parents ’ who were looking for a quiet life . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , the workmen were not necessarily the hapless victims of exploitation . |
| 7 | Yet , as events had invariably shown , numerical superiority in attack was not necessarily the deciding factor in the face of modern artillery and machine-guns . |
| 8 | Provision of 52-week accommodation but not necessarily the additional focus on care , or a series of different short-term holiday placements , can lead to fragmentation of the children 's lives and inadequate preparation for the adult world . |
| 9 | That is certain as people begin to understand that the valuation given to their property is not necessarily the actual property value . |
| 10 | The interests of the children , although not necessarily the paramount consideration , must , in my opinion , always be taken into account and will always be important . |
| 11 | Results are obtained but at the cost of personal relationships and the outcomes are not necessarily the optimum possible . |
| 12 | The most probable effect of exposure to light is a change of colour , but this is not necessarily the only or even the most important effect . |
| 13 | The play may be the thing , but not necessarily the only thing . |
| 14 | In order to illustrate that a reductionist view of physics is not necessarily the only one available , it is necessary to juxtapose the above quote , with the following , from Dr G , a senior lecturer at Department A : |
| 15 | ‘ Secondly , that we regard public ownership not as an end in itself but as a means — and not necessarily the only or the most important one to certain ends — such as full employment , greater equality and higher productivity . ’ |
| 16 | Leading African civil servants entrusted with the day-to-day execution of policy over the last twenty years know that these are not necessarily the major problems . |
| 17 | More importantly for long-run , strategic competitiveness , US firms have emphasised technologies best suited to their home markets , not necessarily the global ones . |
| 18 | However , it is not necessarily the immediate reply which influences decision so much as the well-considered facts succinctly presented . |
| 19 | It is known that Coomassie blue staining can vary from protein to protein [ 32 ] and consequently the ratios of subunits obtained here are not necessarily the absolute values for the stoichiometry , but serve as internal comparisons between wild type and mutant endonucleases . |
| 20 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 21 | Rildia Bee is easy to spot from any distance because she always wears floor-length dresses of silk brocade and a mink stole — which , air-conditioning or otherwise , is not necessarily the obvious choice of outfit in Fort Worth . |
| 22 | This poses problems because the market rate of exchange is not necessarily the ideal measure of the relative values of the goods and services consumed in each country . |
| 23 | To summarise , many partnerships appear to have focused or been focused on the immediate and not necessarily the important . |
| 24 | At least it shows that warmth is not necessarily the biological bonus that some commentators have chosen to suppose . |
| 25 | The optimum yield is not necessarily the theoretical yield or even the maximum possible yield . |
| 26 | you know in terms of , not necessarily the precise content , but you can get erm some general idea about how people have studied the mental life of blind persons and how , you know , maybe it 's interesting that er presumably most of the people who 've studied it are themselves sighted rather than blind themselves you know |
| 27 | If we had to go to France , that would create other questions which may or may not be quite as acceptable to some of the hon. Friends of the Member for Ruislip-Northwood ( Mr. Wilkinson ) , whose suspicion of things European have been evidenced — Not necessarily the Conservative Members who are present , but other Tory Members probably would not be quite so keen on — as they would see it — mortgaging their nuclear future to the French . |
| 28 | As usual with Chinese foreign policy , this suits the government — though not necessarily the Chinese in the street . |
| 29 | We were able to ask the 83 applicants who mentioned vocational motives as being one reason for their interest , albeit not necessarily the main one , for more detail ( see Table 2 ) |
| 30 | While possessing females is important to the young males , and is in some sense the whole point of the evolutionary process , it is not necessarily the basic motivating factor [ in intra-male fighting ] . |