Example sentences of "not [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Darby said : ‘ We calculated that , for a not untypical borrower in the region with a £100,000 mortgage and £40,000 income , Labour 's proposals would have had an effect equivalent to raising the mortgage rate by 2.5 percentage points . |
| 2 | By 1918 there were many Labour Party parliamentarians and trade unionists who would willingly have excluded the ILP from the party , were it not that opposition to the war had spread quite widely and had partly justified the ILP position . |
| 3 | Does not that hostility to the charter give the lie to the Opposition parties ' request for freedom of information ? |
| 4 | Does not that point to the need to give serious consideration to other methods of dealing with terrorism ? |
| 5 | ‘ Is not that analysis against the spirit of the age ? ’ |
| 6 | The string quartet on this EMI disc promises at first to be an effective and not unoriginal exercise in the expressionist tradition , but the end result is something of a disappointment . |
| 7 | This way , if I reach the end of the cone without noticing , the cone lifts off the floor and , as it can not possible pass through the tension assembly , I get plenty of warning without having the weights landing on my feet ( ouch ! ) and my knitting on the floor ! |
| 8 | The prosecution accepted a not guilty plea by the baby 's mother , Sharon Peel , 28 . |
| 9 | ‘ Any reasonable jury who returned a not guilty verdict on the manslaughter charge would do the same on the arson charge . |
| 10 | Second , Labour conveyed the idea that social spending is its ‘ agenda ’ , but not proper management of the economy . |
| 11 | But it was not this way from the beginning . |
| 12 | I 'm not this drink at the moment anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ Only the shepherd and not this time of the year . ’ |
| 14 | Not this time of the year . |
| 15 | Not really , not this time of the day is it ? |
| 16 | Their nobility was insecure because it rested on inheritance and not moment-to-moment creation in the face of annihilation . ’ |
| 17 | There is not detailed remembering of the book , but even the full title , Primitive Culture : Researches into the Development of Mythology , Philosophy , Religion , Language , Art , and Custom , shows that Tylor 's conception of culture as all embracing is one of the keys to Eliot 's work . |
| 18 | October alone has seen more than an inch over the monthly average … and it 's not half way through the month yet . |
| 19 | They were hugely amusing on the television , it was a wonderful series , but we 're actually talking about the education of children here , not high farce on the telly . |
| 20 | Is there not some obligation on the part of the pursuer to justify his claim ? |
| 21 | Your son , not some cuckoo in the nest . ’ |
| 22 | Stones dropped from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship fell to the deck at the foot of the mast and not some distance from the mast , as Aristotle 's theory predicted . |
| 23 | He bored easily and though he loved beautiful women of all dimensions and aspects , he had rarely bothered to see them twice if there was not some fire of the spirit or intelligence to intrigue him . |
| 24 | Mind you Idlike to think its professionally done , not some woman in the back with an iron : - ) |
| 25 | I do n't think there is an overall meaning to be got by the symbolism of hands , though they are used many times to mean different things with many characters though in some cases what makes them symbolic is because it is hands that are being referred to and not another part of the anatomy . |
| 26 | ‘ My lady , I shall say not another word on the subject ! ’ she declared to Joan now . |
| 27 | This could have worked and altered the course of history , had not another miner within the City devised a scheme of counter mines through which water was directed and the gunpowder flooded . |
| 28 | Perhaps not another break in the ice for … what ? |
| 29 | We descended in human but not mechanical silence into the Inferno of the Friday evening rush hour , the appropriate punishment , I have long since thought , for the millions in that city and in every other who live and think as we did . |
| 30 | It is to be hoped that this is not early warning of the demise of public libraries ! |