Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [adj] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bagehot also urged that the monarch must ‘ be a figure , and not a mere person liable to criticism even for vices . ’ |
| 2 | They got this bloody knife and cut half the bloody cheese , I thought I mean , I 'm not a polite person when it comes to food am I ? |
| 3 | something but I 'm not a small person . |
| 4 | and I look quite slim because I 'm not a small person . |
| 5 | I apologise if this description of Boy sounds to you like some fantasy and not a real person , a real young man ; and worse still , if this looks like a photograph from that kind of magazine which you would n't even buy , let alone be seen reading in public , on public transport for instance . |
| 6 | Shame : the sense of hopelessness of the disease leads to a belief that the sufferer is not a worthwhile person . |
| 7 | I 'm not a noisy person . |
| 8 | The fact remains that most health professionals would still speak of and regard someone like Arthur B as an old man with a stroke , not a disabled person with rights and entitlements . |
| 9 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 10 | " He 's possessed , he 's not a normal person : you can tell that when you 're with him . " |
| 11 | She herself is not a reasonable person , she suspects , a suspicion confirmed that evening in the bathroom as she tries , out of respect to Liz 's party , to apply a little of a substance called Fluid Foundation to the winter-dry skin of her face . |
| 12 | Accordingly , she was not a legal person to whom a duty of care could be owed . |
| 13 | To this question the defendant answers ‘ No , ’ because at the time of his neglect the plaintiff was not in existence as a living person , had no separate existence apart from her mother , was not capable of suing to assert a legal right , and was not a legal person to whom he could be under a duty . |
| 14 | Breeze was not a nervous person in the ordinary way , but she had undergone many strange experiences that day , and this additional shock seemed to rob her of all her courage . |
| 15 | I AM not a religious person , but I do think that if Jesus was around today he 'd be horrified by the way we celebrate his birth . |
| 16 | While conceding her part in the enterprise was not as extensive as her paramour accomplice , Judge Kenneth Rubin did say , ‘ Quite clearly you were not a passive person . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ A person who is not healthy sexually is not a healthy person . ’ |
| 18 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 19 | I 'm not a violent person . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , Cromwell was offered the crown subsequently , but he refused , possibly to adhere to his own convictions , but his only son , Richard , was not a strong person . |
| 21 | Peter responds that the fact that someone is a single parent does n't mean they 're not a decent person . |
| 22 | But his following definitions of the value of reading are close to my own convictions : ‘ reading , as we ought to teach it , can make not a good person , but a subtle , questioning one , always with the possibility of corruption yet richer and more enriching . ’ |
| 23 | Jeff 's not a quarrelsome person . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | The conflagration raged for many hours throughout the town , spreading rapidly through buildings already torn open by the blast , and with not a single person left alive to check it . |
| 26 | Even across the Park beyond the main fence of the Zoo , over which the eagles could see if they braved the cold and stared out from the top of their cages , there was not a single person . |
| 27 | Therefore , although the South established " an international port of entry " on the southern bank of the Injim river — complete with immigration control and currency exchange facilities — not a single person was permitted to cross the border in either direction during the entire five-day period . |
| 28 | There is not a single person right now |
| 29 | There 's not a single person at Hailebury I 'd even |
| 30 | But I 'm not a bitter person . |