Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [noun sg] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will probably be fairly reluctant to assist , given that your client is not a member of their union , but they might be persuaded to part with the safety minutes which contain relevant complaints that predate the accident . |
| 2 | As I am not a member of his Church , it would be improper of me to make any theological observations . |
| 3 | The Italian the other children spoke in school was not a dialect like my Triestino and in many subjects I was in any case behind the others , a thought which made me very unhappy . |
| 4 | And the absence of systematic programmes to teach basic literacy added to the impression that the prison was regarded in reality as little more than a ‘ warehouse ’ for inmates , not a vehicle for their improvement . |
| 5 | This time poor Allingham 's been found dead in his chamber , with not a mark on his body . |
| 6 | And when it had finished its inquiry , not a word of its report could be changed by government , which was also obliged to publish its findings . |
| 7 | Privacy was not a word in our vocabulary , and postcards and diaries were mercilessly read aloud as we trekked through the jungle of North Borneo . |
| 8 | And so it 's not a case of our waiting it 's rather a case of our receiving . |
| 9 | The leading vehicle , driven by Fire Chief Bob Wallace , reinforced by short lengths of steel girder welded across its front , lost not a yard of its gathering momentum as it smashed through the inner set of gates , flinging them wide to hang drunkenly from their torn hinges . |
| 10 | It was not a defence of his stance but a further argument against denationalization . |
| 11 | Seventeen blissful years with nary a thought of green sunblock , purple reflective goggles or navy blue knockers and not a knot in my stomach , in anticipation of hurtling off a glacier with sweat running down my longjohns into my boot-bindings . |
| 12 | There was not a doubt in his mind as to where she had taken the fifth picture on the film . |
| 13 | work permit ? — that 's bull : Pedersen ( joining Oldham ) , Bohinen ( Forest ) and Nilsen ( Sheff Utd ) are all leaving norway for england in these days and Nilsen is just as Frank not a regular in our World Cup squad . |
| 14 | Charman was himself insecure about his drumming ability , but it was not a factor in his departure . |
| 15 | It occurred to us that either the gap between the rich and the poor had become much wider than anyone had ever imagined and that these people had not a clue about our reality or else their campaigns were a deliberate conspiracy to cover up the real cause of our appalling health record . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're not a bit like your father . |
| 17 | The fallibility of all knowledge is not a sign of its deficiency but rather an essential characteristic of knowledge , for every knowledge claim is part of a system of signs that is open to further interpretation and has consequences that are to be publicly tested and confirmed . |
| 18 | Not a sign of my barrel-bag . |
| 19 | Mr James remembers her well , she was a sweet woman , all good nature , not a thought in her head , who asked for nothing but to love and cherish ( her husband had been spectacularly unfaithful to her , even for Rome — it runs in that family ) . |
| 20 | Yet , not a Rebel to your Hymen 's Law , |
| 21 | Previous gastric surgery was not a feature of our tumour group as has been suggested by previous studies . |
| 22 | But it was brutally clear that love was not a feature in his thinking . |
| 23 | Finally , although not a criticism of our method — indeed , if anything , quite the contrary — it should be noted that for several of our chosen authors it was possible to arrive at more than one ‘ diagnosis ’ that fell within the general category of psychosis . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's me with thirty-five men to feed , and not a morsel in my larder tent ! ’ |
| 25 | Failure , he had often said to himself , was not a part of his life . |
| 26 | You 're not a part of my life any more . ’ |
| 27 | I bided my time but patience was still not a part of my nature no matter how continually I courted it . |
| 28 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 29 | Mr Evans does n't use it , of course , it would n't be dignified for him to be seen going there , not a man in his position , when all the neighbours know he 's got one indoors , but I use it , and though it 's an earth closet it 's quite nice and clean . ’ |
| 30 | Fanshawe was a wealthy stockbroker with a flat in Mayfair and , apart from a bit of moral nastiness , not a stain on his character . |