Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] not a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guttersnipe is loth to kick a man when he 's down but is this episode not an outstanding example of divine retribution for Cheggers Plays Pop ? |
| 2 | It 's property owned by a public body not a private company . |
| 3 | And secondly , drama is a social event not a solitary experience . |
| 4 | Cos I saw erm a photo when I was eighteen and I it was sort of short in the neck over my ears short in there and then sort of fuller there and then just a bit of you know a light fringe not a heavy fringe and I thought I might have it like that so |
| 5 | ‘ I thought this was meant to be a friendly chat not a bloody interrogation . ’ |
| 6 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 7 | We take as the basic model not a single game , but a system consisting of a linked set of subjective games , one for each player . |
| 8 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 9 | In all probability not a single fox will live or die as a consequence of any vote we take this afternoon . |
| 10 | WHEN is an independent state not an independent state ? |
| 11 | The second is organicism : that is , Conservatives regard society as ‘ a unitary , natural growth , an organized living whole not a mechanical aggregate ’ , which in turn implies that they are resistant to arguments which reduce society to component parts like classes or atomistic individuals . |
| 12 | You 're meant to be thinking about your big ride not a married man . ’ |
| 13 | She tried all kinds of diets and even when she stuck rigidly to an Energen 1000 Calories a Day diet and lost over two stone not a single inch went from her thighs . |
| 14 | I once walked , or rather limped , the thirteen miles of tarmac , plagued by a protruding nail in the sole of my shoe which was digging a small crater in my heel , and during the whole journey not a single vehicle passed me . |
| 15 | Gaps arise , first , because private policies generally offer incomplete ( or no ) coverage of chronic or pre-existing medical problems because the likelihood of treatment is too high , nor of the medical costs associated with pregnancy because this is the result of deliberate choice not a random risk . |