Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 2 | Would you also agree that haphazard impulse is perhaps not the sort of attribute we 're looking for ? ’ |
| 3 | These periods of low-voltage sleep were called " emergent stage I " because subjects were not as easily roused as from " ordinary " sleep onset Stage I sleep , and because , being continuous with deeper stages of sleep , these periods of light sleep were obviously not a transition between wakefulness and sleep , in the way that sleep onset Stage I seemed to be . |
| 4 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 5 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 6 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not nervous , ’ says Dolores , ‘ but I 'm just not the type of person who goes out and can say ( adopts hysterical Lita Ford persona , clenched fists raised to the sky etc . ) |
| 8 | Sometimes the grown-ups say ‘ well , look , this is just not the type of thing I want my child even to know about . |
| 9 | Inspector Neville Oughtibridge , of Wakefield police , said : ‘ The job of policing the town centre has been made easier because there 's just not the amount of money around there used to be . |
| 10 | ‘ Ian , ’ he schmoozed , ‘ you know , you are a prodigy , just not the sort of prodigy you thought you were . |
| 11 | That is patently not a point of order for me . |
| 12 | However , we welcome the back-up given by the Government ; there is still not a part of mainland Britain today which is uninsurable . ’ |
| 13 | This serves as an introduction to Part II , and more particularly as a prelude to Chapter 6 , because it deals with the subject of fiction itself : something which is strictly not a matter of style , but which is presupposed by the study of style in fiction writing . |
| 14 | I have said it before and will say again that I am one such beneficiary , and probably not the sort of beneficiary that was intended when it was decided that a discount would be required . |
| 15 | The erasure was probably not the result of weathering , because Mercury has probably never possessed a significant atmosphere and certainly not for any length of time . |
| 16 | John Merrill has concluded that the rebellion was probably not the result of conspiracy but rather of the geographical remoteness of the island , the tenuous nature of government authority , and ancient grievances against Seoul . |
| 17 | Allergy , although probably not the cause of glue ear , is a factor in its persistence and recurrence and should be taken into consideration when evaluating treatment methods . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it was also not a period of stagnation in this respect . |
| 19 | It is also not the kind of company that throws its money around so it must be confident making some on Unix . |
| 20 | This type of humility is clearly not a sign of weakness , but of great strength . |
| 21 | One was that the crack tip was elliptical or rounded , which is clearly not the case in detail in a material made out of atoms . |
| 22 | The rest of the countryside is in effect erm a white area which tends which to me erm in a county context tends to convey the impression that er countryside issues do not matter across the rest of the countryside and that 's clearly not the intention of Government advice and it 's clearly not the intention behind the statutory of the structure plan which has a strong environmental basis . |
| 23 | Therefore what the teacher wants a student to hand in for marking is often not a piece of paper but a source file . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's simply not a lot of money about . |
| 25 | By sublimation I mean here not the conversion of sexuality per se into a higher , non-sexual aim , but the displacement of one kind of sexuality into another — or , more exactly ( and this is the sense in which I still subscribe to Freud 's notion ) , the contamination of a higher ( i.e. socially approved ) sexuality by a lower ( i.e. proscribed ) one . |
| 26 | A refusal to answer police questions is plainly not an offence under section 51(3) . |
| 27 | While ministers quite correctly point out that the act requires local consultation , it was surely not the intention of parliament that water undertakers should have such an absolute veto . |
| 28 | This pre-modernist embrace of history was surely not an embrace of change or of movement . |
| 29 | At the very least NOT THE KIND OF THING YOU 'D EXPECT FROM THE FARM . |
| 30 | At least not the kind of food one would like to eat . |