Example sentences of "[pron] not a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spanish Civil War was a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality but the image of hope and fears of their generation . |
| 2 | All calls/actions are logged though — so its not a sort of free-for-all . |
| 3 | Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds . |
| 4 | Is there not a book of angling knots ? |
| 5 | For the boy carried within him not a ball of wax , but an idea . |
| 6 | Is it not a form of self desecration not to cultivate this primeval delight in flowers ? |