Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |
| 2 | We should also remember that just as not every piece of writing need go through one or more stages of drafting , so some pieces of writing need not be pursued to a finished stage . |
| 3 | Armstrong replied , in a later number of the same journal , that it is simply an empirical fact about our proprioceptive powers that we are able to perceive the heat of our hand directly but not the roughness of its surface . |
| 4 | The figures go some way to counter fears that the recovery is faltering , but they reveal also that not every sector of the economy is gaining . |
| 5 | He had actually been denounced to J. Edgar Hoover as ‘ more probably than not an agent of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 6 | But they do admit that it 's still more often than not a case of all talk and no action when boys discuss sex in the playground . |
| 7 | You know that that 's about all the room there was was honestly was a table and chairs and more often than not a couple of us had to sit on the stairs . |
| 8 | More often than not a shoal of big bream , particularly a small shoal of very big bream , does not remain in a swim for long . |
| 9 | 2.30 More often than not the loss of the wife 's services is assessed by reference to the costs of employing a housekeeper to provide those services , and there have been comparatively recent developments in this area . |
| 10 | April , nearly May now and not a sign of it . ’ |
| 11 | I was the one who was here and not a sign of him — you can speak for me — ‘ |
| 12 | His faith comprised curiously disparate elements — the rough , frightened , humility of the countryman ; the thoughtful worshipper ; the vigorous enquirer ; and even though not a micro-molecule of disrespect ever enters his attitude towards his Deity , his natural radical-ness stood so near at hand one can almost feel its heat . |
| 13 | The Pakamac , a grey-black plastic coat which epitomised a confident post-war consumer society even though not the height of sartorial elegance , is to make a fashion comeback . |
| 14 | Well why should I have a pretty dress and a cake when it 's the love that 's there and not a piece of paper or a special day ! |
| 15 | Could you look also please at page fifty six in the same tag which is home which was forty nine , it carries on to fifty six , we can see there you 've got the same thing but you 've got a drawing there and not a photograph of something that 's in the area , Court Castle in Dorset |
| 16 | Open capital markets are the future , so it 's important that the UK style of reporting is an essential way forward and not a matter of choice . |
| 17 | The raised IgG1 proportion appears to be disease specific instead and not a reflection of unspecific inflammatory changes . |