Example sentences of "[adv] not [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WALTER SISULU will have cause in the coming days to reflect , perhaps not for the first time , that stone walls do not a prison make . |
| 2 | ‘ It was absolutely astonishing , ’ said Ludens , also not for the first time . |
| 3 | It is not , at least not in the first instance , the formulation of clear , precise , and coherently related propositions backed up by sufficient evidence and argument . |
| 4 | A wide circulation or advertising the sale does not seem appropriate — at least not in the first instance . |
| 5 | Note that we are not here trying to derive models for designing — or at least not in the first instance . |