Example sentences of "not [det] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if this is seen as intervention by the teacher , is not that happening in every classroom in the land ? |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't really think Maurin had anything to do with it , not that nightmare in the Chagall museum and not the murder . ’ |
| 3 | Well , the woman 's 'usband started to fancy me , but I was n't 'aving that , I 'm not that kind of a girl , I never 'ave been . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll 'ave to tell her I 'm not that kind of a girl . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Does not that hostility to the charter give the lie to the Opposition parties ' request for freedom of information ? |
| 7 | Does not that point to the need to give serious consideration to other methods of dealing with terrorism ? |
| 8 | ‘ Is not that analysis against the spirit of the age ? ’ |
| 9 | But it was not this way from the beginning . |
| 10 | I 'm not this drink at the moment anyway . |
| 11 | The Rough Wooing was to continue , not this time as a series of devastating raids , but by seizing and garrisoning Scottish fortresses as the basis for English control , and by Somerset 's own comprehensive victory over the Scots at Pinkie in September 1547 . |
| 12 | ‘ Only the shepherd and not this time of the year . ’ |
| 13 | Not this time of the year . |
| 14 | Not really , not this time of the day is it ? |
| 15 | October alone has seen more than an inch over the monthly average … and it 's not half way through the month yet . |
| 16 | Is there not some obligation on the part of the pursuer to justify his claim ? |
| 17 | Your son , not some cuckoo in the nest . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Note that the G appearing on the right-hand side of ( 7.16 ) is the usual gravitational constant and not some contraction of a tensor . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mind you Idlike to think its professionally done , not some woman in the back with an iron : - ) |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ My lady , I shall say not another word on the subject ! ’ she declared to Joan now . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Perhaps not another break in the ice for … what ? |
| 26 | As the clouds of imminent civil war gathered , Pelham hastened back to Hull where he later wrote : ‘ I kept the King out of Hull when he came in person ( although I had not such instructions from the House ) — where was a very great magazine in which I suppose I saved the State above £100,000 … |
| 27 | And not much colour in the lips . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's not much overlap in the title bases ’ of MIS:Press and M&T Books , Mr Berkowitz said . |
| 29 | That would give you the bare bones of The Prince of the Pagodas , but not much idea of the richness of Benjamin Britten 's score which , paradoxically , has proved a stumbling block in the work 's history . |
| 30 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |