Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visibility was about 7km , it was rather hazy with some cloud , but it was possible to maintain VMC , although as Peter said , ‘ it was not a day with endless visibility . ’ |
| 2 | 1880 , moreover , is not a date in religious history , even if the French abolished military chaplains and the British parliament opened parish churchyards to nonconformist burial services in that year . |
| 3 | that talk about the company of which I 'm chairman is that there is a personnel and compensation committee which in the absence of a chief executive sets the chief executive 's remuneration and with the presence of the chief executive , although he 's not , I 'm not a member of that committee we work on the other senior executives of the company , it 's quite similar to the process used here in your company . |
| 4 | Joyce later described himself , when applying for his German military passport , as a believer in God but not a member of any church . |
| 5 | I am not a member of any party . |
| 6 | She maintained links with the Quakers but made a point of religious independence : ‘ As I am not a member of any community , no society can answer for my irregular conduct . ’ |
| 7 | Any string that is not a member of this class is ungrammatical . |
| 8 | Appearing before the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee on March 18 Shamir said that the Golan Heights were not a subject for territorial negotiation . |
| 9 | Pace Miss Baye , ‘ Savage Nights ’ declares that AIDS is not a subject like any other . |
| 10 | ( A knowledge of Gaelic is not a prerequisite for any level of study . ) |
| 11 | He declared that ‘ our only wish is that Afghanistan should be a neutral and independent state developing in its own right and friendly to the USSR , and not a base for hostile activity threatening the security of neighbours ’ . |
| 12 | Hers was not a type of female beauty which attracted him and he had always assumed that she was physically cold . |
| 13 | Despite some earlier hesitations , it is now certain that A commits the tort of intimidation against C if he threatens B with conduct which is unlawful in relation to B and thereby intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) in a way which causes damage to C. It is not a requirement of this tort that B's conduct be in any way unlawful in relation to C. An old illustration is Garret v. Taylor , where the plaintiff was the lessee of a quarry and alleged that the defendant had ‘ disturbed ’ his customers and his workmen by ‘ threatening to mayhem and vex them with suits if they had brought any stones . ’ |
| 14 | Not a word of additional apology or sympathy to the McArdles , mind . |
| 15 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |
| 16 | Joining General Howard and Major Wood were three easterners , described by Monteith 's wife as , ‘ kings of finance but with not a speck of Indian sense , experience or knowledge ’ . |
| 17 | I.B.C. is not a company within that definition . |
| 18 | This is not a case for any declaration . |
| 19 | ‘ But once the authorities had clamped down , it was not a case of political Stalinism so much as bureaucratic perfidy and complete lack of imagination . |
| 20 | As a result , we now have a very detailed picture of the lifestyle of the cuckoo and can recognise it for what it is : not a case of divine creation , but a superb example of the complex adaptations that occur in the intricate interrelationship . |
| 21 | This means either that the utterance of [ 14a ] was not a case of genuine communication or that it did in fact achieve relevance . |
| 22 | In passing sentence US District Judge Norman P. Ramsey told Clines that his " was not a case of misplaced patriotism ; it was purely a case of greed " . |
| 23 | Neither Sir Martin Jebeau 's gun nor that of his stableman , Richard Smith , had been fired , and both guns were found not a yard from each other . |
| 24 | But we accept that there is not a customer for this work and we are getting on with the job of ensuring that the business as a whole continues to develop positively . |
| 25 | As other factors may influence company returns it may be assumed that beta is not a measure of total risk . |
| 26 | This is not a reference to any pet the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger may have had but rather to a ‘ thought experiment ’ he proposed ( a thought experiment is one that can not actually be performed , but the examination of which can reveal scientific truths — or , at least , plausibilities ) . |
| 27 | the rationale for antitrust is essentially a device to provide legal checks to economic power , and is not a pursuit of economic efficiency as such . |
| 28 | Was not a sense of religious destiny derived from sources that were essentially insulated from the effects of interchanging sun and earth ? |
| 29 | With Rousseau and Robespierre it is clear that what is being offered is not a support for Christian belief , but a rival . |
| 30 | No remorse , not a shred of guilty feeling . |