Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That is patently not a point of order for me . |
| 4 | However , we welcome the back-up given by the Government ; there is still not a part of mainland Britain today which is uninsurable . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nevertheless it was also not a period of stagnation in this respect . |
| 7 | This type of humility is clearly not a sign of weakness , but of great strength . |
| 8 | Therefore what the teacher wants a student to hand in for marking is often not a piece of paper but a source file . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's simply not a lot of money about . |
| 10 | A refusal to answer police questions is plainly not an offence under section 51(3) . |
| 11 | This pre-modernist embrace of history was surely not an embrace of change or of movement . |
| 12 | Knowledge is again not a matter of understanding pollution control technology or the biological or chemical processes involved in water purification ; such knowledge is taken for granted . |
| 13 | But again , too evident delight in surmounting a difficulty which was after all self-imposed suggests that the Resident 's obscuration of the nature of his influence was primarily not a form of reticence or uncertainty , but of display . |
| 14 | The defining of the subject English is in this view primarily not a matter of language but of non-linguistic content . |
| 15 | However , some risks may simply be unacceptable and therefore not a matter for compromise or optimisation . |
| 16 | The very philosophy of the Hegelians is therefore not a challenge to society but a way of making such challenge unthinkable . |
| 17 | Not many people make it through to the evening meal without any snack , so , being realistic , the overweight person imagines Ms or Mr Trim indulges in a light , healthy snack such as fresh fruit in the afternoon ; certainly not a bar of chocolate . |
| 18 | ( The deputy leader , Seamus Mallon described the Labour Party as ‘ Cromwellian ’ which is certainly not a term of endearment . ) |
| 19 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |