Example sentences of "[not/n't] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farm was held originally by the Coldstream Guards ( not the 1st Guards ) and the 3rd Guards ( Scots Guards ) . |
| 2 | Our first step in illustrating interval harmony using the whole chromatic octave will be to write a succession of consonances in two parts : This succession of six two-part chords uses the total-chromatic and a variety of consonances , though not the 4th and major 6th . |
| 3 | THE name of the current month shows in its Latin origins that it used to be the 10th month of the year , not the 12th . |
| 4 | ‘ Not the second time , not in March when they knocked it off at Stamford . |
| 5 | In general , however , it was not the second part of Bacon 's Inductive Method that found favour . |
| 6 | The poem which advocates marriage so long as the partner is chosen reasonably is included , but not the second poem which examines the dangers of marriage per se . |
| 7 | In this case the first layer Ni atom is well imaged , but not the second layer Ni atom . |
| 8 | The PROFITBOSS gets there — if not the first time , then the second time ; if not the second time , then the thousandth time . |
| 9 | ‘ But not the second blow , surely . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In April 1990 reforms came into operation which addressed the first but not the second elements of concern outlined above . |
| 12 | If it does not the second limb of s31 will be satisfied . |
| 13 | This is not the first time that such considerations have arisen for readers of his fiction . |
| 14 | It is for this reason that Professor Desmond Pacey correctly posits Leonard in his second category of Canadian poets , the socialist-realist group , of which Layton is ‘ the chief prophet ’ ; not the first , the mythopoetic group of Frye , Reaney and Macpherson . |
| 15 | This was not the first time that George had attempted a figurative animal sculpture . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 17 | Although Willem ‘ Wimpie ’ de Klerk , the President 's brother , was a member of the team , it is not the first time he has met Mr Mbeki . |
| 18 | The Deloitte fiasco is not the first big eight merger to fall apart and these ridiculous posturings must leave the clients , who are supposedly served by their auditors , completely baffled . |
| 19 | It was not the first time the 48-year-old comedian and doctor had pooped the party . |
| 20 | He is not the first Federal Reserve chairman to visit Moscow , but never can one have been paid as much attention . |
| 21 | This is not the first or last case of over-statement . |
| 22 | This is not the first time nor the last that we encounter this influential organization . |
| 23 | If you achieve this , then a record deal is just around the corner , and you will have earned yourself a strong negotiating position which should enable you to sign the deal you want and not the first deal that is offered . |
| 24 | He was not the first to do this . |
| 25 | This is not the first time that Vitelli has insisted to Clara that his sexual desire for her is conjoined with an equally strong desire to kill/ fuck her father ( and , now , her brother ) : |
| 26 | And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s . |
| 27 | The first is that , contrary to what is implied in Harold Nicolson 's biography , Sir Herbert Samuel , who saw the King shortly after noon , was not the first to make the suggestion that there should be a National Government : the first suggestion came from the King himself . |
| 28 | Not the first words spoken , but from before the surfacing of memory she has known this . |
| 29 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 30 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |