Example sentences of "[not/n't] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for the psychic tracer , they must surely have lost themselves in the labyrinthine entrails of what was not one vessel but many , some of these enormous in their own right . |
| 2 | not one window , I says I 'm not giving you two for one . |
| 3 | To become effective , innovation of this sort usually demands not one kind of knowledge but many . |
| 4 | Not one Girl was dropped and due to the anti-social breath of the stagehands , not one romance developed . |
| 5 | You accountancy people are good at sums , so you will immediately recognise that if your own ‘ glass ’ contains a quadruple measure , you are having not one drink but four . |
| 6 | I have come across not one company which incorporates the pursuit of honest profits with social awareness , which provides a vision for themselves and their workers . |
| 7 | There is not one fragment of Panaetius dealing with political matters ; and what Cicero derived in his Dc officiis from Panaetius ' Peri Kathekonzos ( Cic. ad Atticum 16.11.4 ; De officiis 3.2.7–10 ) has no bearing on conquest or provincial government . |
| 8 | It is not one telephone but two , and it 's an ideal solution if you want to avoid people grabbing the phone from you . |
| 9 | Well , there 's not one lady Waging the Inch War or wielding the tape |
| 10 | Robert Sherwood ‘ could not detect a single flaw — not one error of taste or of authenticity ’ and he particularly appreciated the absence of ‘ scenes wherein the doughboys dash over the top carrying the American flag ’ . |
| 11 | Not one Girl was dropped and due to the anti-social breath of the stagehands , not one romance developed . |
| 12 | The article went on to announce that although 35,000 had passed through the Tiller schools , not one Girl had been involved in a divorce , they had nearly all got married and to keep the record straight she hastily added , ‘ Those that had n't , all hoped to do so ’ . |
| 13 | Not one animal did we see all week — or hear , for that matter — although the small-windowed barns on the mountain paths , the frequent smell of liquid manure and the amount of cheese melting on menus indicted that there must , somewhere , be some . |
| 14 | They recorded not one instance of drinking or of thirst in a dream . |
| 15 | Not one character speaks in the same way as another one . |
| 16 | Not one organisation wrote to the Home Secretary indicating they were supporting what the Government is now putting for the House . |
| 17 | ‘ Not one person who has met the qualifying standard before the plane takes off for Auckland will be left behind , ’ Hunter said . |
| 18 | At the time of going to press , not one person has been nominated for this post . |
| 19 | A colleague of mine in Buckinghamshire had great difficulty in selling his little terraced house ; after months on the market not one person had come further than the front door and he was about to lower the already modest asking price . |
| 20 | Isaiah was not one person but three . |
| 21 | There is not one person ( including extras ) in the movie who is not a ‘ character ’ . |
| 22 | He also became friends with the eccentric Duke of Montagu of Boughton House in Northamptonshire , for ‘ In Stamford … there was not one person , clergy or lay , that had any taste of learning or ingenuity , so that I was actually as much dead in converse as in a coffin . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Nobody really knows what this girl is going through , not one person — except her . |
| 24 | Apart from sexual partners and children born to infected mothers , not one person out of more than 12,000 people studied became infected . |
| 25 | I knew that not one person had guessed there was anything wrong . |
| 26 | ‘ Not one person . |
| 27 | A few would n't commit themselves , but not one person said PBDS , or Harrison Ngau . |
| 28 | Not one person now connected with the line has had experience of railways in Europe or America . |
| 29 | In the second we are describing the spatial distribution of people , not one person : this is the Euler method . |
| 30 | And not one person had been kind enough — or loyal enough — to tell her the truth . |