Example sentences of "not [det] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll 'ave to tell her I 'm not that kind of a girl . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not much hope of a job , not much chance of a million young people who are trying to find cash or work , a waste of skills , a whole generation . |
| 6 | Summing up : there is not much chance of an artist from one member state receiving subsidies from another . |
| 7 | ‘ But there is not much future for a king without a queen . ’ |
| 8 | Yes , so you believe that there 's basically not much difference between a child and a adult ? |
| 9 | There 's not much room for a car in Bill and Joan Gaskell 's garage at the moment — it 's choc full of orchids — being carefully prepared for the Chelsea Flower Show . |
| 10 | All the ‘ furniture of the earth , … all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world ’ , he says , ‘ have not any subsistence without a mind . ’ |
| 11 | I have to tell you I am not any sort of an expert on the budgets of grant maintained schools . |
| 12 | ‘ There is simply not enough evidence for a jury to be invited to consider a charge of manslaughter against Smith and Winter , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's not enough blood for a human . |
| 15 | Fun day , more fun than today and today I hope I 've provided some of the ground work ca n't there 's a lot of things I would 've liked to have gone into more detail and generally I do but today there 's just there 's just not enough time in a day to do it . |
| 16 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 17 | ‘ This is n't some sort of a confession , is it ? ’ |
| 18 | She gave him a brief , grateful smile and went on : ‘ And is n't this use of a foetus particularly dangerous ? |
| 19 | And Titan was way off her patch , there was n't much chance of a return load . |
| 20 | Everybody in ‘ our town ’ feels indignant about the insult to the respected old gentleman , and a proposal gets off the ground to give a subscription dinner in his honour ; but finally ‘ we ’ think better of it , ‘ perhaps realizing at last that a man had , after all , been pulled by the nose , so there really was n't any cause for a celebration . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There was n't any need for a change to the rules , ’ he said . |
| 22 | He had n't enough money for a taxi so they took the bus back to Champney Crucis . |
| 23 | We were looking forward to gorging ourselves , but the buyer was a restaurateur and his chef had skinned it so cleanly that there was n't enough flesh for a sandwich ) . |