Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes Bernard would work all through the night and there was not a day in winter even in snowy , freezing weather when they would n't turn up and bring sandwiches and bottles to keep us all going . ’ |
| 2 | It 's three months now , and no news , not a word of ransom yet . |
| 3 | Not a speck of dust anywhere . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's not a vision of loveliness today , is she ? ’ she would say of some man , in a deafening aside . |
| 5 | Members must have been trading in the UK for at least two years and must disclose their turnover and profits — lack of profits are not a bar to membership however , he added , because ‘ we would hate to disallow the big international business machine companies ’ . |
| 6 | I envisage and this is what I believe to be his last film Not a Hope in Hell early in 1960 . |
| 7 | His faith comprised curiously disparate elements — the rough , frightened , humility of the countryman ; the thoughtful worshipper ; the vigorous enquirer ; and even though not a micro-molecule of disrespect ever enters his attitude towards his Deity , his natural radical-ness stood so near at hand one can almost feel its heat . |
| 8 | Everything , from the stables to their occupants , is immaculate with not a wisp of straw out of place . |
| 9 | Not one failure , not one incorrect prosecution , not a hint of doubt anywhere . |
| 10 | Finally , though , because his style resembles not a force of nature so much as a medium of measurement or response ( response to pressure , atmospheric pressure ) , I settle on something less personal : Barometer Barnes . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's simply not a lot of money about . |
| 12 | Well n not , not a lot of radio now . |
| 13 | So minus a hundred and twenty there I mean that 's they 're just the there 's not a lot of difference really . |
| 14 | There 's not a lot of reason around when you fall in love . |
| 15 | ‘ Not eight million ; not a piece of piss either . |
| 16 | Not all of the women who took that decision were separatist by any means , but the fact that we had rejected men was not a gesture of feminism alone . |
| 17 | There was n't a shred of self-pity there . |
| 18 | " It 's perfect , and there is n't a speck of dust anywhere . |
| 19 | The sun was blazing down and there was n't a spot of shade anywhere till you came to the wood below the lake . |
| 20 | There was n't a lot of money around ; that was eight years ago . |