Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much not the case with Tolkien . |
| 2 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 3 | Would you also agree that haphazard impulse is perhaps not the sort of attribute we 're looking for ? ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ) |
| 7 | Sometimes the grown-ups say ‘ well , look , this is just not the type of thing I want my child even to know about . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Ian , ’ he schmoozed , ‘ you know , you are a prodigy , just not the sort of prodigy you thought you were . |
| 10 | Hard-hitting humorist Leo Chester contemplates why he 's still not the son of God ( opposite page ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is also not the kind of company that throws its money around so it must be confident making some on Unix . |
| 16 | This was clearly not the case with John Pearson , however , who did not have an incurable deformity , nor was unable to feed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sometimes hearing a cycle of works by the same composer actually has the opposite effect , making one realise limitations in the music , but this is simply not the case with Brahms . |
| 20 | Or they should , the citizens should be er stopped from er attacking each other and so on , but whether the citizens turn out to be morally good or morally bad in other ways in private matters , whether they 're morally improving or not , is simply not the business of governments . |
| 21 | To some of the clinical research nurses , the attitude of the RCN seemed to be that clinical research was simply not the province of nurses . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But it is surely not the will of God that a gentleman who has come here to practise medicine … |
| 24 | Nice men all but surely not the management for South Africa 's first major tour since 1981 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Bowley , the man who above all others took up the mantle of Booth and Rowntree in the early part of this century , that " it was unfortunately not the custom in Bowley 's day for the British Government to call outside experts . |
| 27 | At the very least NOT THE KIND OF THING YOU 'D EXPECT FROM THE FARM . |
| 28 | At least not the kind of food one would like to eat . |
| 29 | The right hon. Gentleman made a statement in the House about a fast track procedure under which some applicants would be sifted out immediately and would not have the right of appeal — at least not the right of audience in an appeal or representation in an appeal . |
| 30 | No , it 's definitely not the film on stage . |