Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a cold evening , heavily overcast , not a splink of moonlight to pierce the darkness of his last few miles . |
| 2 | It seems that Constanze supplied Mozart with the sexual fulfilment he needed , and , although rumours abounded at the time , and have continued ever since , that both husband and wife took other lovers , there is not a shred of evidence to support such a theory . |
| 3 | Besides , as Minter was in the process of admitting , he had so far assembled not a shred of evidence to support his claim . |
| 4 | Cosmas is burnt to death in his bed ; Damien killed by a mysterious archer who apparently can pass through thick walls , but there 's no clue to the riddle , no sign of the Templars and not a shred of evidence to indicate where the Grail or Excalibur lie . ’ |
| 5 | It claimed that Ms Oruene had failed to show she was treated less favourably than any other candidate and that there was not a shred of evidence to show that it had deviated from normal procedures . |
| 6 | agreed : ‘ It is not a sign of weakness to attend a stress-management course . ’ |
| 7 | Conservatives taunted them that they might find themselves , fugitives in Africa , ‘ drawing from under their arm a very fine plan of a constitution while they had not a foot of land to stand upon ’ , after having opened the doors to ‘ the revolutionary spirit which had destroyed France ’ . |
| 8 | Unlike the proceedings of the general council twelve years before , these were the meetings of a debating society , not a struggle for power to control the army and through it the government of the country . |
| 9 | ‘ Not a crumb of sense to share between thee . |
| 10 | At least there 's not a lot of chance to have hassles . |
| 11 | This shows that Thomas earned about £6 : 18s. , plus Richard 's 5/ , during five months … it was not a lot of money to keep a family of 11 ( it would have been 13 save that Elizabeth , born in May 1836 , appears to have died in infancy ; and of course Sarah was gone ) . |
| 12 | I 've come home to my dinner and I 've not a lot of time to spare . ’ |
| 13 | Not a lot of information to go on , but Bill McMahon , manager of auctioneers Outhwaite and Litherland of Liverpool , says your charcoal drawing sounds typical of Edwardian or late Victorian works . |
| 14 | Redpath had acted at once on the very slenderest of chances — apart from the date , and the fact that Stavanger was missing , there was n't a scrap of evidence to link him with the body found on the Thames foreshore at low tide . |
| 15 | Now Russo then representative democracy is n't a refinement of democracy to make it appropriate for the modern world , but a way of giving away all the merits of democracy . |