Example sentences of "not a [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not a mere matter of citizenship ; it is a birthright and a shared inheritance . |
| 2 | Institutional dominance is not a necessary condition of policy-making . |
| 3 | The actual place and time of writing of the manuscript by the author , Wilkie Collins , or indeed the identity of the author , is not a necessary piece of information for the reader to interpret the text . |
| 4 | Okay , it 's delegation , but it 's not erm , the sort of like , a responsible job if you see what I mean , it 's a job that they 're employed to do anyway , but it 's not a separate sort of task . |
| 5 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 6 | A true agency would be necessary , not a spurious finding of agency in order to enable apparent justice to be done in hard cases . |
| 7 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 8 | Knowledge was not a womanly way of life . |
| 9 | It is not a geographical accident of birth that determines whether an individual or group is going to be rich or poor , but a question of class location . |
| 10 | Though changing methods of planning for traffic specifically in residential areas were not a central thrust of Traffic in Towns , the book provided a context for residential area strategies which , in the event , have guided a number of countries in the ensuing quarter century . |
| 11 | He 's not a nasty piece of work , though . |
| 12 | Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma . |
| 13 | His poem about Mesmer is a great puzzle to me , as I can not tell with any certainty what is his attitude to Animal Magnetism , whether mocking or endorsing , and this is so with other of his work , so that often one is led to wonder whether there is not a great pother of talk about nothing much . |
| 14 | I must admit , I 'm not a great fan of noise gates in general , but Carvin 's system seems to work better than most . |
| 15 | Even if you are not a great fan of exercise-to-music and think stepping up and down on a bench is n't exactly going to be a barrel laughs , you may still find this fun . |
| 16 | ‘ They need to find themselves a decent bloke , ’ said William 's nan once , presumably meaning four decent blokes as she was not a great advocate of polygamy . |
| 17 | There is not a great deal of poetry but a very varied selection . |
| 18 | 1980 ) there is not a great deal of knowledge established beyond argument . |
| 19 | The thing is a couple of increments is not a great deal of money is it ? |
| 20 | That 's probably a set of tyres or something - it 's not a great deal of money in this day and age - but then failure is limited to actual breakage , wear and tear is excluded , it does n't cover the cost of working materials such as gaskets , if the vehicle has been modified in any way it 's excluded , it excludes any personal injury resulting from the breakdown , it covers erm the schedule is invalid if you have not covered the servicing aspects on page ten , the servicing aspects on page ten require you within ten days or two hundred and fifty miles of three thousand miles intervals — most cars now are six thousand mile intervals — to have the oil changed , so there 's a built-in additional service , and so it goes on . |
| 21 | The general condition of the boiler is very good and there appears to be not a great deal of work to be done . |
| 22 | I always find it the reddest of the brilliant stars , though there is not a great deal of colour-difference between it and Betelgeux ; the name ‘ Antares ’ means ‘ the Rival of Ares ’ ( Mars ) . |
| 23 | They had not a great deal of choice . |
| 24 | The A G M , the last two years people have said well there 's not a great deal of point in coming along other than for a drink because er the committee 's got it all sorted out , you know , beforehand as regards who 's doing what . |
| 25 | There 's not a great deal of danger of detection is there ? |
| 26 | Not a great deal of intervention took place , and most that did was directed towards small companies in ‘ high-tech ’ sectors , which tended to be located in the south of England . |
| 27 | If you lose sight of that , all the attention to detail in the world is not a great deal of use . |
| 28 | ‘ Not a great deal of use . |
| 29 | The figures in Table 7 suggest that there is not a great deal of difference in the use of educational facilities by one and two parent families ; lone parents make more use of day nurseries and two parents of play groups . |
| 30 | There 's not a great deal of difference to being at a Carter gig in America and a Carter gig in Britain . |