Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a somewhat unusual view , for prophets of disaster usually see it just as a disaster , not as a necessary stepping stone to something better . |
| 2 | Beryl Chapman , the author , has written a small workbook based on many years of experience for a variety of people to use , not as a large reference book . |
| 3 | With appropriate management attitudes , the element of the group labelled ‘ dog ’ can be encouraged to seek self-renewal , i.e. as an organizational entity , not as a particular product line . |
| 4 | However , their deployment is justified in nuclear ideology , not as a potential self-defence second-strike force , but on the basis that they will never have to be used , since their possession alone deters a potential enemy , and therefore it does not constitute a threat to use illegal weapons . |
| 5 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 6 | It would not serve my purpose to make that an illustration of Jesus taking my place or yours , because God the Father is clearly not like a Nazi war criminal . |
| 7 | By now all was confusion : the streets of Verdun presented a scene of total disorder , not unlike a disturbed ant heap , for troops and transport ( all civilians had earlier been evacuated ) milled about in congested and seemingly pointless movement . |
| 8 | In a way , a skilled speculator is not unlike a skilled insurance underwriter who accepts risks , prices them , passes them on and hedges them . |
| 9 | It 's not unlike a Red Cross run . |
| 10 | In the Greater York area which does n't have a current planning permission , and that 's not including a redundant hospital site of another ten hectares . |
| 11 | ‘ used by virtue of that licence ’ In other words the vehicle concerned must have been used under the trade licence and not under a normal vehicle excise licence for an offence to contravene the law relating to trade licences . |
| 12 | Not with er not with a local authority pension , as far as I 'm aware . |
| 13 | Ye of little faith should know that it could be earned but not in a normal working week . |
| 14 | I I agree it is it 's very difficult to do when it 's not in a real life situation |
| 15 | Therefore , if they , the unemployed , want help from the State they must pay back from that State with some form of work , because you ca n't have something for nothing , not in a capitalist market economy . |
| 16 | But he can do this : he considers the petition , or Bill , as it is called ; if he thinks there is anything in the case , he issues a writ which requires the person complained against to appear , not in a Common Law Court , but before himself , and answer the petition on oath . |
| 17 | When not in a regressed state Eileen had absolutely no recollection of those words being spoken by her mother . |
| 18 | What I 'm trying to say is that it 's providing for people already here that I think should be a major item of population policy , and doing it not in a massive world sense , or even a country , but in particular areas as well . |
| 19 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 20 | It was not until a junior school staff , which regarded its professional status as inviolable , was confronted by its Managers that the whole taken-for-granted structure of accountability was thrown into question . |
| 21 | ‘ ( 3 ) Where the goods are of a perishable nature , or where the unpaid seller gives notice to the buyer of his intention to resell , and the buyer does not within a reasonable time pay or tender the price , the unpaid seller may re-sell the goods and recover from the original buyer damages for any loss occasioned by his breach of contract . |
| 22 | While , when Leeds scores a similar ( except better effort ) bollex head ( Coppell ) describes it as a lucky passage of play and not from a great footie team . |
| 23 | Perhaps then the current expanding universe resulted not from a big bang singularity , but from an earlier contracting phase ; as the universe had collapsed the particles in it might not have all collided , but had flown past and then away from each other , producing the present expansion of the universe . |
| 24 | While such intervention is not without a moral hazard problem , it may still remain the best solution for those seeking income insurance ; in other words the government can handle the moral hazard problem better than the market can . |
| 25 | Reliance first of all , not on a working class mass base but on a peasant mass base . |
| 26 | It should be borne in mind that the company would be assessed to tax by reference to its accounting period ending on normal incorporation tax principles and not on a preceding year basis . |
| 27 | He 's still my coach now , obviously not on a full time basis because my home 's in Michigan . ’ |
| 28 | Atherton argues that the mass of the American people remain committed to support for the ‘ genuinely poor , sick , disabled and disadvantaged ’ , but not to a redistributive welfare programme . |
| 29 | This does erupt , but not to a defined time schedule . |
| 30 | The difficulty with such ‘ sympatric ’ speciation is that species differ , not at a single gene locus , but by many genes ; it is hard to see how such a difference could build up if sexual crossing was continuously breaking it down again . |