Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [noun sg] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the solution to the underclass lies in stricter enforcement of the criminal laws , in giving tenants a stake and a say in public housing , in educational innovation opposed by teachers ' unions , in changing welfare laws so that a baby is not a ticket for an apartment separate from mom 's . |
| 2 | It is not a question with an answer , for all these ‘ realities ’ are illusions in the wider sense . |
| 3 | Four good folios there , the whole story put across clean and clear , solid with fact and not a smell of an opinion . |
| 4 | She is not a woman with an interest in maternity . |
| 5 | Whatever may be true of the world , and , as follows from what has been said of necessitation , our conception of an effect is not a conception of an event that occurs if a usual background exists , or an event which follows on something required for it , but might not have occurred , or a merely probable event . |
| 6 | Buddhists , indeed , have insisted that there is nothing supernatural about such enlightenment : the visions , ecstasies and other alternative states of consciousness experienced by an adept are not a meeting with an alien , divine reality but are natural to the human condition , even though most people have not developed this spiritual potential within themselves . |
| 7 | This is implied in saying that the original statement expressed an attitude , and not a belief about an attitude . |
| 8 | Mr Hicks bravely pronounces that an activity based costing approach to cost management is not an option for an organisation hoping to compete in the 1990s — it is a requirement . |
| 9 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |