Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [not/n't] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second male said , ‘ Women who start families and continue with families do n't appear to go through the system … a woman has to decide that she 's going to be a career-based woman and not a family-based woman . |
| 2 | Balanitis xerotica obliterans is a descriptive term and not a diagnosis , as it represents the end stage of several skin diseases , including , rarely , cicatricial pemphigoid and lichen planus as well as lichen sclerosus . |
| 3 | A special event can add excitement , like the jolly festivity of the Last Night of the Proms , or a concert with a world-class soloist , like Placido Domingo , which an attender praises as ‘ much more a social occasion and not a purely listening one ’ . |
| 4 | There , surely , is one small example of how rational global thinking to frame intravenous drug use as a public health and not a moral issue might influence local strategy . |
| 5 | Such an alliance was popular with many back benchers:James Hope , lately Chairman of Ways and Means , suggested , ‘ a composite Government but not a coalition . |
| 6 | It will be gravely libellous if he is a drunken driver but not a terrorist . |
| 7 | Owen was , he was aware , a hired man and not a member of the charmed social circle and if he wanted to get things done he had to do it indirectly by tweaking the inner social system . |
| 8 | So that there was good consideration there to meet that contingency , which was a real contingency and not a fanciful one at that time . … |
| 9 | But that poor customer , John — I am sorry to keep going back to you on it , I 'm just seeking clarification — that poor customer has got to prove to your satisfaction that it 's a mechanical breakdown and not a result of what they 've done to it or somebody 's , at any time , negligence in assembly . |
| 10 | ‘ That guy 's putting is uncanny , ’ I said with not a little feeling and not a little envy . |
| 11 | He remembered him as a kindly man but not a very lively one . |
| 12 | But he 's not a great conversationalist and not a great chatterer and talker and worker out of problems , like , for instance , Viscount Whitelaw , whose genius is that he 's always absolutely ready with many views on every single problem that 's going , political , policy and so on . |
| 13 | Mr. Harrison accepts that the liability of the original lessee and other direct covenantees is a primary liability and not a collateral or secondary liability , e.g. by way of surety . |
| 14 | This suggests that oesophageal dysmotility in this condition is a primary phenomenon and not a consequence of injury and inflammation . |
| 15 | Norman McBeath is , as his name suggests a purebred Scot and not a man of Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | The second factor of importance with respect to the nature of a floating charge is that although a floating charge relates to future assets it is a present charge and not a future one . |
| 17 | However a war like the one going on in Northern Ireland at the present is different because religion is being used as an excuse to fight and so it is being used as a negative force and not a force for the good . |
| 18 | A quick check of all the extremities of the aircraft will be a good indicator though not a complete one . |
| 19 | Moreover , the ensuing change is likely to be of a gradual nature and not a radical rearrangement of the political or social order . |
| 20 | He grinned ; at least Myeloski had sent him a beautiful woman and not a dog . |
| 21 | The dust is diabolical — at one stage you could be fired for using a sweeping brush and not a vacuum . |
| 22 | This particular police officer does and wants Superintendent Mhoira Robertson to be remembered for a glittering career and not a weary struggle as recorded by Joan Burnie . |
| 23 | For example ( taking the Avogadro constant to be ) : By turning these statements around we can show that the Avogadro constant is a physical quantity and not a pure number . |
| 24 | I preferred to cross the ferry to the hotel on the other side , and found there was a spare bed though not a spare room . |
| 25 | In fact it 's sometimes said that it 's one of the very great privileges of the public is that they can , by dint of writing something , and putting it in an envelope with a stamp on it , get it to arrive on an editor 's desk , and have the editor at least give a cursory glance if not a more serious glance at what 's going on , so it 's a privilege and it 's an opportunity in that case . |
| 26 | This action emphasised that Jesus was a peaceful Messiah and not a military leader . |
| 27 | TRAINER Francois Boutin is confident that Arazi is a super rocket and not a damp squib . |
| 28 | The fallacy in the plaintiffs ' argument lay in the assertion that the challenged paragraphs of the order of Buckley J. constituted a proprietary remedy and not a mere order for discovery . |
| 29 | ( And what is a Single Currency if not a permanent system of fixed exchange rates ? ) |
| 30 | And it 's a fair bet that not a few of them will rouse hoots of laughter or gasps of admiration when you show them off to you friends . |