Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friday 30 june was not untypical of a normal day at the PT School . |
| 2 | Freud 's view of science is not that of a simple empiricist , who assumes that , once something has been discovered in science , it remains true for all times , and that one day science will have discovered nearly all we need to know about the world and ourselves . |
| 3 | This ‘ leadership ’ , however , is not that of a gallant subaltern , charging the machine guns while his platoon has a smoke in the dug-out . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , so as not to break the thread of our story , let us just remark that any ‘ purpose ’ involved is internal to the agent or system and not that of a hidden hand . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not pleasant for a human being to pass judgment on another and say that he is evil through and through without any redeeming features , but that is the conclusion I am forced to come to about you . ’ |
| 6 | Such flexibility is not possible with a physical model . |
| 7 | At present it is not possible for a foreign band to buy its airline tickets from Aeroflot with its rouble earnings , but only in hard currency . |
| 8 | However , the construction of a fixed index-replicating portfolio is not possible for a geometric index . |
| 9 | It is not possible in a modest book like this to clarify everything . |
| 10 | Fortunately arbitrators and the courts have recognized that it is often not possible in a complicated situation to relate a particular cause to effect : see the remarks of Mr Justice Donaldson in 7 Crosby & Sons v. Portland UDC [ 1976 ] 5 BLR 121 . |
| 11 | It may be , then , that there is a distinction between the two cases and that , notwithstanding the later doubts expressed in Hills v. Ellis , Willmott v. Atack should be taken to stand for the proposition that a person who interferes with the police intending to help them is not guilty of a wilful obstruction . |
| 12 | But by mentioning them I have perhaps been able to show that when theists talk of God as ‘ both far and near ’ , or as ‘ visible and unseen ’ , they are not guilty of a simple contradiction in terms . |
| 13 | Watson , of Walworth , was convicted of robbing the Connollys and Mrs McDevitt after pleading not guilty at a previous hearing . |
| 14 | In 1987 he was found not guilty over a full page article in the Sunday Express . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not right for a married woman to have a man in the house and he not her husband , ’ he says . |
| 16 | It 's not right for a young girl . |
| 17 | Constable wrote of him : ‘ There is a moral feeling in art as well as everything else — it is not right in a young man to assume great dash — great completion — without study or pains . ’ |
| 18 | The study population consisted of 11 men and 16 women who were not pregnant with a mean age of 41 ( range 21 to 70 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The duties imposed … shall not require a local authority to do anything which is not practicable at a reasonable cost ’ . |
| 20 | e.g. to generalize about the significance of an event : " The basic weakness of the Treaty ( of Versailles ) lay in the fact that it left the German people in a frame of mind not conducive to a lasting peace . |
| 21 | The physical condition of the Pottery Hut is not conducive to a pleasant working atmosphere . |
| 22 | Such razzmatazz is not conducive to a proper spirit of inquiry . |
| 23 | No , it 's not conducive as a sporty image the walnut facia . |
| 24 | The main trouble with the scheme is that we can not be sure that an apparent X effect is not due to a differential influence of some extraneous factor(s) on the S 1 and S 2 groups . |
| 25 | This is not due to a simple depletion of transcription factors as twelve copies of the transgene in Long 7 , and 30 copies in Long 12 gave the expected expression ratio . |
| 26 | The finding that even severe depression does not lead to a lowering of blood pressure suggests that the mild depression and decreased wellbeing associated with low blood pressure in the studies referred to above is not due to a causal effect of the former on the latter , which strengthens the case for the existence of a hypotensive syndrome . |
| 27 | Since we want to address the question of involvement of cysteine residue *177 of the enzyme in the molecular mechanism of methyltransfer catalysis , it is necessary to demonstrate that the loss of catalytic activity of the Cys177Ser mutant is not due to a folding defect . |
| 28 | However , these rules are certainly not adequate as a practical guide to how to use English intonation . |
| 29 | In 1961 , however , Macmillan 's Conservative Government was forced to confront the underlying weaknesses of British economic performance , and , as the Cabinet debated various strategies , the Prime Minister noted the emergence of ‘ a rather interesting and quite deep divergence of view between Ministers , really corresponding to whether they had old Whig , Liberal , laissez-faire traditions , or Tory opinions , paternalists and not afraid of a little dirigism . |
| 30 | He 's not afraid of a late-night film , |