Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [not/n't] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 2 | Here , a constant and not a chance model of anarchic relations via exchange is obligatory … the law of value is merely the law of equilibrium of an anarchic commodity system … |
| 3 | She was a Christian but not a Church one . |
| 4 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 5 | Indeed , your latest victim seems to have been a veritable bundle of surprises — not a maidservant but a duchess , not dead but alive — and , to top all , affianced to an eleven-year-old and not a virgin ! ’ |