Example sentences of "not a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Besides , you 'll find , that their Couples were never marry 'd : — But yonder I see my Coridon , and a sweet Swain it is Heaven knows ; — Come , Dorinda , do n't be angry , he 's my Husband , and your Brother ; and between us both is he not a sad Brute ? |
| 2 | Not a sad occasion at all . |
| 3 | interpretation is not a pure skill but a discipline deeply dependent on knowledge . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Scholes is right to say that ‘ interpretation is not a pure skill but a discipline deeply dependent on knowledge ’ ; as much was conceded by Richards in Practical Criticism , a fundamental text of the New Criticism , when he acknowledged that those who had not already read enough poetry would read poems badly . |
| 5 | In addition commercial water , that is water from a tap , is not a pure substance . |
| 6 | The clause cited from the will , however , is not a pure example of a trust clause , for its purpose is not purely to confirm in trust form what has already been said in civil-law terms . |
| 7 | We can see that age of acquisition may be taken as a predictive factor for current sign language training but that it is not a pure , uncontaminated variable . |
| 8 | Note that the Avogadro constant is a physical quantity with the dimension [ amount-of-substance ] 1 , and is not a pure number . |
| 9 | For example ( taking the Avogadro constant to be ) : By turning these statements around we can show that the Avogadro constant is a physical quantity and not a pure number . |
| 10 | The public good in question is not a pure public good ( see chapter 4 ) but one whereby congestion costs are experienced as capacity levels are reached . |
| 11 | Rice starch is not a pure carbohydrate and on ignition about 0.4% remains as residue . |
| 12 | Not a pure , no ! |
| 13 | ‘ We now need a new party , one that is the heir and not a mere continuation of the present one . |
| 14 | A soldier or airman on active service , or mariner at sea , can make an informal will , even by word of mouth , which will be valid provided that his communication to his audience was not a mere statement , but a request to him to see his intention carried out . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe this is the only country in which there has been a national acknowledgment of God 's directing Providence in the cholera , and I believe it is not a mere outward form but that more and more are becoming every day religious . ’ |
| 16 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 17 | Tagore wrote of this poem — ‘ The feeling that man is not a mere casual visitor at the palace-gate of the world , but the invited guest whose presence is needed to give the royal banquet its sole meaning , is not confined to any particular sect in India . |
| 18 | He was moved to do this because of the feeling that this is not a mere river but the Lord 's compassion flowing before us . |
| 19 | It is not a mere reflection of it ; the media do not simply report the world for us in any ‘ neutral ’ or ‘ objective ’ sense , they interpret the world for us . |
| 20 | Bagehot also urged that the monarch must ‘ be a figure , and not a mere person liable to criticism even for vices . ’ |
| 21 | At the same time it must be stressed that the ecclesiastical character of ‘ ultramontanism ’ ( the dominant , Rome-centred , theory and practice of Catholicism in this period ) was not a mere post-Revolution reaction : it was the direct heir of medieval papalist and Counter-Reformation Catholicism . |
| 22 | It is not a mere means to X + Y , since it is a part of it , but still the 90 degrees of value are not its value . |
| 23 | ‘ Mr Lewin was not a mere passer-by . |
| 24 | Contrary to what some historians have thought , the campaign in Spain was not a mere side issue . |
| 25 | It is not a mere matter of citizenship ; it is a birthright and a shared inheritance . |
| 26 | In 1950 the Court had held these ‘ declarations to constitute recognition by the Union of the continuance of the obligations under the Mandate and not a mere indication of future conduct of that government . ’ |
| 27 | It should provide a readable condensation of the recent literature : a critical appraisal , not a mere catalogue . |
| 28 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 29 | This is not a mere constructive tenancy as that was . |
| 30 | The fallacy in the plaintiffs ' argument lay in the assertion that the challenged paragraphs of the order of Buckley J. constituted a proprietary remedy and not a mere order for discovery . |