Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] not [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your notes should be the product of historical thought and not simply a prelude to it . |
| 2 | A light touch and not even a mouse could have scuttled through that ballroom without setting off the alarm all over the house — and the city . |
| 3 | After a brief goodnight and not even a peck on the cheek he looked down , then said , ‘ I 'll be in touch some time , Sarella . ’ |
| 4 | No calculated glances , no abrupt addresses , no stratagems , just the easy politeness , he thought , of the worldly gentleman and not even a sly request for a hot stone or a late candle to his room . |
| 5 | However , if imperialism is a consequence of capitalist expansionism and not simply a colonial system of government , then some form of economic neo-imperialism could persist after independence for ex-colonies ( see Abel and Lewis , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a feeling of being suspended — it was not a negative feeling and not even a loss to be mourned , but I just could not see a way ahead . |
| 7 | She was in a black gloom because not even a postcard had arrived from Ricky . |
| 8 | There was complete silence and not even a breath of wind disturbed the peace . |
| 9 | Either way , astronomers are regarding it as a fascinating astronomical object and not just a recordbreaker . |
| 10 | The question , it was widely remarked , embraced a number of different propositions : some voters might be in favour of the maintenance of a single state but not necessarily a socialist one , and there was little guidance — apart from the draft union treaty — about the nature of a ‘ renewed federation ’ . |
| 11 | They discussed the rudiments of the Charleston , that still over-sophisticated exercise in dancing , a world apart from the slow foxtrot and not yet a familiar of Irish Hunt Balls . |
| 12 | They often had this sort of conversation , and Constance always made allowances for Scarlet 's naivety : such slowness on the uptake was the result of a sheltered background and not necessarily a sign of limited intelligence , though she sometimes wondered . |
| 13 | Building and running a stadium that would hold tens of thousands of spectators was an expensive business and not usually a profitable one . |
| 14 | The representatives of the media should see the meeting as a constructive activity and not just a propaganda exercise . |
| 15 | We recognise that the Church is a divinely constituted organism and not merely a human institution . |
| 16 | Towns , as we have seen , gave wealth to their rulers , and founding new ones became a quite fashionable activity if not always a successful one . |