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Example sentences of "[not/n't] [det] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Well , the woman 's 'usband started to fancy me , but I was n't 'aving that , I 'm not that kind of a girl , I never 'ave been .
2	‘ You 'll 'ave to tell her I 'm not that kind of a girl . ’
3	Note that the G appearing on the right-hand side of ( 7.16 ) is the usual gravitational constant and not some contraction of a tensor .
4	Not much hope of a job , not much chance of a million young people who are trying to find cash or work , a waste of skills , a whole generation .
5	Summing up : there is not much chance of an artist from one member state receiving subsidies from another .
6	‘ But there is not much future for a king without a queen . ’
7	Yes , so you believe that there 's basically not much difference between a child and a adult ?
8	There 's not much room for a car in Bill and Joan Gaskell 's garage at the moment — it 's choc full of orchids — being carefully prepared for the Chelsea Flower Show .
9	Not all periods of a town 's history are visible in its buildings .
10	Hence social contracts may bind , not all members of a society , but members of some group within society .
11	Novice anthropologists are not all birds of a feather but most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in a modern industrialized society of the sort which presupposes a particular type of major distinction between private affairs and public affairs .
12	Not all guests at a hotel will be adults .
13	All the ‘ furniture of the earth , … all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world ’ , he says , ‘ have not any subsistence without a mind . ’
14	I have to tell you I am not any sort of an expert on the budgets of grant maintained schools .
15	‘ There is simply not enough evidence for a jury to be invited to consider a charge of manslaughter against Smith and Winter , ’ he said .
16	I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) .
17	‘ There 's not enough blood for a human .
18	Fun day , more fun than today and today I hope I 've provided some of the ground work ca n't there 's a lot of things I would 've liked to have gone into more detail and generally I do but today there 's just there 's just not enough time in a day to do it .
19	As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense .
20	‘ This is n't some sort of a confession , is it ? ’
21	She gave him a brief , grateful smile and went on : ‘ And is n't this use of a foetus particularly dangerous ?
22	And Titan was way off her patch , there was n't much chance of a return load .
23	‘ Oh , I used to tread the boards , I am an actor all right but there are n't many roles for a man who sustained an injury that left one leg shorter than the other .
24	Everybody in ‘ our town ’ feels indignant about the insult to the respected old gentleman , and a proposal gets off the ground to give a subscription dinner in his honour ; but finally ‘ we ’ think better of it , ‘ perhaps realizing at last that a man had , after all , been pulled by the nose , so there really was n't any cause for a celebration . ’
25	‘ There was n't any need for a change to the rules , ’ he said .
26	The thought of a Labour Government , inter-stellar travel , Phil Collins writing a song with a comma in it , why there are n't any walnuts inside a Walnut Whip any more .
27	He had n't enough money for a taxi so they took the bus back to Champney Crucis .
28	We were looking forward to gorging ourselves , but the buyer was a restaurateur and his chef had skinned it so cleanly that there was n't enough flesh for a sandwich ) .