Example sentences of "not [adj] [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officers need to correlate information and if visits are necessary they should decide , with the chief executive 's support , the need to visit Europe , not Labour Councillors on a junket costing twenty thousand out of the pockets of our Charge payers . |
| 2 | Not detailed plans of a Party programme , but his role as the embodiment of a cosmic struggle against irreconcilable internal and external enemies of immense power and magnitude ultimately bound the Party faithful to Hitler . |
| 3 | Even where there was not direct evidence of a breach of trust , the occupation would suggest to the newspaper reader that this is a crime of the middle class , such as ‘ a civil servant who admitted inciting a child to commit an act of gross indecency … . ’ |
| 4 | So it 's not cream cheese in a spread . |
| 5 | Sometimes , because your employee is paid at intervals which are not exact multiples of a week or a month , the earnings period may not match exactly with tax weeks or months . |
| 6 | Why not antediluvian Germans in a pantry ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Nominative not objective pronoun in a comparison where the verb is understood . ’ |
| 8 | The opposing view holds that social service consumers are not like consumers in a supermarket . |
| 9 | So if it starts the word and you 're not sure go for a C. |
| 10 | The jury returned a unanimous not proven verdict on a charge alleging he supplied five men including depot employees with the drug on Hogmanay 1991 . |
| 11 | A revisionist view may fault French colonialist practices , corrupt South Vietnamese officials , the American media and specific American policies , but not American policy as a whole . |
| 12 | Johnson gave them more money , the not inconsiderable sum of a shilling each , for which generosity they hailed him , addressing him as ‘ My Lord ’ . |
| 13 | They 're not nice people in a way , but they have a certain dignity about them . |
| 14 | They 're not nice people in a way , but they have a certain dignity about them . |
| 15 | These reformers , however , were not passive recipients of a message from on high . |
| 16 | Firstly , the file organization is more robust , as the accidental overwriting of a record only affects that record itself and not other members of a chain . |
| 17 | Yeah well no that 's not bad money for a woman |
| 18 | Weight and size are n't big factors in a species in which not a lot is decided by fighting . |