Example sentences of "[not/n't] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or ooh no not or a super hold nothing like that . |
| 2 | Not that a few really bold gestures would come amiss . |
| 3 | The essential point is not that a feminist reading of the eighteenth century is impossible , but that it must , as Munns suggests , recognize not only sexual difference , but the difference between one century and another |
| 4 | The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion . |
| 5 | Patrons please not that a buffet can be served after the show for up to 50 people provided reasonable advance notice is given . |
| 6 | Not that a girl would ever be allowed to touch the great hammers or take the white-hot metal from the furnace with the giant tongs . |
| 7 | ‘ Not that a case like this comes up every day . |
| 8 | The incident would be funny were it not that a similar stunt had been pulled in Kismayu , southern Somalia 's largest port , at the end of March . |
| 9 | It matters not that a reasonable man would have known the information to be so . |
| 10 | So deviation is a matter of degree , and at some indefinite point it becomes significant not that a writer has chosen x rather than y or z , but that he has chosen x at all . |
| 11 | Suppose that we work with the causal example ; it is required for knowledge that the fourth clause be true , but not that a have any inkling that the fourth clause be true . |
| 12 | It is not that a major shift is suddenly taking place , although the stock market crash of October 1987 did make people feel as if the ground was unexpectedly moving beneath them . |
| 13 | What is crucial , then , is not that a particular individual should necessarily own property himself , but that ‘ property should be sufficiently dispersed so that the individual is not dependent on particular persons who alone can provide him with what he needs or who alone can employ him ’ . |
| 14 | The then Lord Chief Justice in 1980 commented that , If it were not that a high proportion of cases are compromised long before they reach court the administration of justice would soon grind to a halt ; the courts would be overwhelmed by the volume of work . ’ |
| 15 | In the present case the House of Lords found that Hardie & lane v. Chilton was correctly decided but not that a demand for money in lieu of placing on the stop list would be lawful in all circumstances . |
| 16 | Not that a rifle round could beat gravity sufficiently to threaten a helicopter at five hundred metres . |
| 17 | Pemberton played in the cup finals for Wednasday last season and I ( not that a stupid girlie would know ) thought that he was good . |
| 18 | Not if a month later their house is worth less than they paid . |
| 19 | It is true that some local authorities will not say whether you are eligible or not until a place has been put on offer to you , but it 's still very much worth your while to find out all you can from your local education authority . |
| 20 | Not until a new switching centre in Birmingham comes on stream will the 1000-km network be up to the mark . |
| 21 | Although there were , of course , counter arguments , it was not until a rapidly declining population became an acknowledged fact that the case for exclud-ing certain groups from family allowances lost its force . |
| 22 | Not until a paper published in 1910 does Freud settle on the term ‘ Oedipus complex ’ . |
| 23 | It would appear that the small number of pupils in a country school had read all in which they were interested and borrowing declined and it was not until a new set of children were ready for reading that regular lendings became frequent again in 1911 and 1912 . |
| 24 | Although the eye-irritating smogs of Los Angeles in the 1940s received nationwide media coverage , it was not until a 1948 six-day smog in Donora , Pennsylvania , causing 6000 cases of illness and 20 deaths , that air pollution succeeded in gaining federal attention ( Schrenk et al. , 1949 ) . |
| 25 | One should note that within the text it is not until a good three-quarters of the tale has passed that Wilekin is identified as a clerk , in the exchange between Margery and Dame Sirith over the weeping bitch . |
| 26 | The ‘ sight ’ episode of Supersense ( the sequel of which , Lifesense , begins this month on BBC1 ) had a four-eyed fish whose eyes are divided so it can simultaneously watch above the water for predators and below the water for prey ; the woodcock which has developed 360 degree ‘ wraparound ’ vision ; bees which see colours in flowers man can not and a map of the sky from which to navigate . |
| 27 | Not unless a drunk man came in . |
| 28 | I do n't know whether it 's actually correct or not but a number of players in Byrne 's team ( Shamrock Rovers , a team I dislike nearly as much as the scum ) have been linked with moves to Elland Road . |
| 29 | After the Popular Revolution of 1973–4 the districts of Libya in theory became autonomous and sovereign ; in practice they did not because a more or less restricted elite in the centre created the budgets , policies and political institutions . |
| 30 | Mr Des Wilson , the Liberal Democrat campaign manager , played down the racial element in the vote that defeated Mr Taylor , saying : ‘ We won that seat on the merits of our campaign , not because a few votes for the Tory may have been influenced by the colour of their candidate 's skin . ’ |