Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the end of the last century , knitting was not a pastime in Dent but a livelihood . |
| 2 | The interior of the country is an inhospitable desert of mountains and moors and innumerable lochs : not a desert of desolation but of beautiful and dramatic landscapes . |
| 3 | It 's not a base of knowledge but a subset that can be easily manipulated . |
| 4 | Lady after lady breathed heavier when Pen dashed in and out , and on the days when Wilson was a little late with the supper — which she now undertook to provide — on account of having been delayed taking tea with Mrs Browning there was not a word of complaint but only a diffident enquiry as to how the venerable poetess had seemed . |
| 5 | It is in fact not a doctrine of neutrality but of moral pluralism . |
| 6 | This is not a superabundance of time but , used effectively , it will be just adequate and will allow for about 10 lectures a week . |
| 7 | By the time Woolley arrived in her ward she was turning into a slaughterhouse attendant : she no longer saw them as men but as damaged stock ; if they screamed it was not a sign of pain but a signal to fetch a doctor . |
| 8 | Do not be too familiar , and remember that ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Madam ’ is not a sign of servility but one of respect . |
| 9 | It is not a sign of aggression but is , rather , a substitute for the pecking and scratching the birds would do if they were able to forage or dustbathe in an unrestricted and varied environment . |
| 10 | Chester is not a town in isolation but the focal point for a large area , and there is a large and increasing potential market . |
| 11 | In support of his argument , Mr. Coghlan relied on Cozens v. Brutus [ 1973 ] A.C. 854 , a case in which it was held in the House of Lords that the meaning of the word ‘ insulting ’ used in section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 was not a matter of law but a matter of fact . |
| 12 | A a and that is my submission , it is not a matter of law but a matter of fact a and practice . |
| 13 | The defining of the subject English is in this view primarily not a matter of language but of non-linguistic content . |
| 14 | The very philosophy of the Hegelians is therefore not a challenge to society but a way of making such challenge unthinkable . |
| 15 | Automatic crystallisation is not a term of art but covers at least two situations which at first blush appear dissimilar ; one is where the charge is made to crystallise on the happening of an event provided for in the charge without there being any need for a further act by the chargee and the other is where the charge is made to crystallise on the serving of a notice of crystallisation on the company . |
| 16 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 17 | The sound which law-abiding people heard at Handsworth was not a cry for help but a cry for loot . |
| 18 | This is not a cure for anxiety but it can help people to take their minds off their problems and regain control of their lives ’ . |
| 19 | It is not a theory of history but a product of history designed to serve the purposes of the ruling class . |
| 20 | Although Hubble 's work ( with subsequent numerical amendment ) has been the principal empirical basis of cosmology , this is not a book about cosmology but about astronomical observation beyond the Galaxy . |
| 21 | The fact is that urban Britain faced not a period of standstill but of dramatic growth and reordering . |
| 22 | I smelt fresh cigar smoke and I called out like you normally would to anybody there and no er reply so I searched all round the building , not a soul in sight but there was this distinct smell of cigar smoke and my colleague er Mr Martin he had an experience er a year or two after he joined us . |
| 23 | The on the only thing is sometimes if you a if you ask some of these people to do these things I know it 's not a lot of responsibility but do you reckon it goes to his head ? |
| 24 | Well this you can sit down in the seats , you can look at the you can touch the tables , there 's not a lot of stuff but if if you got any sense of history you can get the feel of the place you know . |
| 25 | I know it 's not a lot of help but erm |
| 26 | Therefore what the teacher wants a student to hand in for marking is often not a piece of paper but a source file . |
| 27 | The departure of Lord Leverhulme was not a victory for crofting but a defeat The crofters left the land not because Lord Leverhulme gave them jobs in a factory , but precisely because he did not . |
| 28 | For doubt , full grown , is not a lapse of memory but a wilful refusal to remember . |
| 29 | The Spanish Civil War was a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality but the image of hope and fears of their generation . |
| 30 | This is not a time for logic but for immediate reaction . |