Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [adj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would not object to such a tight fit , in fact it would help them keep their restless horses under control , but once they had set spurs and the horses bolted , murder occurred . ’ |
| 2 | Objects in the real world do not behave in such a crazy way , so the brain can safely filter out the apparent echo as background noise . |
| 3 | Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park . |
| 4 | A rather larger star — one of mass greater than about 1.2–1.4 times our Sun 's — can not contract in such a controlled way . |
| 5 | I would recommend to Ran that perhaps he does not go on such a big trip again , and I 'm going to recommend it to myself . ’ |
| 6 | His reasoning was that GHQ could not deal with such a large number of small units . |
| 7 | Our first decision should be whether we want to write a traditional strophic song ( each verse identical in length and metre ) , or music which is not chained to such a rigid form . |