Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gascoigne suspected that MacArthur wanted a peace conference to take place because it would convey the impression of activity to the Japanese but that MacArthur did not necessarily desire a treaty to emerge from it . |
| 2 | Stewart , who had been playing well , hammered his first ball down the throat of third man , and with West Indies taking time-wasting tactics to the extreme — 16.5 overs in around two hours — England did not really have a hope . |
| 3 | But referee Hart did not even award a free kick . |
| 4 | In 1835 , for example , just five years after Roberts had sketched the recumbent city of Jerusalem , we find the French writer Alphonse de Lamartine returning from a visit there to recommend to his readers in Voyage to the Orient that since Palestine did not really constitute a country , it presented remarkable opportunities for imperial or colonial projects . |
| 5 | Mig Romerez did not even recognise a football when I showed him one but his exotic appearance should be enough to impress those bumpkins in ‘ The Tip ’ crowd . |
| 6 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |
| 7 | The Bill did not therefore uphold a woman 's right to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 8 | It is to show that Britain does not really have a constitution at all , merely a system of government , even if some parts of it are more important to our democratic order than others or are treated ( perhaps : were treated until Mrs Thatcher 's time ) with greater veneration . |
| 9 | Whereas Marxism-Leninism does not always take a wholly positive attitude towards the peasantry , identifying petit bourgeois tendencies — particularly amongst the less impoverished — which can make them a sometimes unreliable ally , Mariátegui and subsequent Latin American Marxists have pointed to a dual oppression — both economic and racial . |
| 10 | Ethiopia does not yet have a strong scientific community , and it would be criminal if foreign researchers were to plunder the material without assisting in the development of their host 's own research capabilities . |
| 11 | Paraguay does not even have a department or other state institution which is supposed to initiate soil conservation and range management . |
| 12 | The marriage of Anne and Tim does not just have a personal significance for them . |
| 13 | However , participation in a CU does not necessarily represent a freer trading regime for all participating countries . |