Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although adults can wait for an expected reward , for example until the end of the month for their salary , pre-school children can not wait for even a few hours .
2 Unsecured loan stocks are corporate bonds that are not secured by either a fixed or a floating charge .
3 A major part of the effort in user education in university and polytechnic libraries is the preparation of guides to the subject literature , guides to individual reference works , guides to particular forms of literature , guides to techniques of information handling etc , and there are few libraries in these sectors who do not have at least a dozen in current production .
4 But the situation of working people in political systems where unionization is underdeveloped and is not coupled with even a social democratic form of political mobilization is anomalous for most Marxists .
5 But if the West Bank can not accommodate them , will they accept a political settlement which does not allow at least a substantial proportion to return to Galilee ?
6 After some discussion they decided not to travel with either a portable bath or a patent coffee-machine .
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