Example sentences of "not [prep] the [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will provide you with two sides of an A4 sheet giving you very little detail about the property except that it is or is not worth the agreed purchase price . |
| 2 | ‘ Not for the great Jonathan Crawford . |
| 3 | If it was not for the Grand Slam tournaments and the unique place they hold in the game , I am sure we would be losing this vital battle . ’ |
| 4 | Not for the first time Delaney looked into the eyes that were deep , infathomable pools of green , and at the copper-coloured hair falling around the high smooth cheek bones ; at the small upturned nose and a mouth just large enough to hint at the animal sensuality lying dormant beneath the surface . |
| 5 | Not for the first time Annabel Croft is responsible . |
| 6 | Again his gaze was intent , and not for the first time Robbie cursed the need for evasion , the maintenance of her fiction concerning Hugh . |
| 7 | Fen suggested , and not for the first time Robbie wished she could clear up this misapprehension . |
| 8 | Not for the first time Selvey painted the best picture . |
| 9 | Not for the first time Charles reflected that growing up is a myth ; getting older is just an intenser form of childhood . |
| 10 | Not for the first time Salisbury found it was easy to attract a large audience for a free show . |
| 11 | Not for the first time Rostov wondered why he had been selected for this particular mission . |
| 12 | Not for the first time Matey noted that his first thought was of his maid . |
| 13 | Both were convicted and sentenced to hang , ironically for a mass of mundane crimes , and not for the Royal Mail robbery that had made them so famous . |
| 14 | If it were not for the debilitating character question , Clinton would surely have a fair chance of beating Bush . |
| 15 | organised by an individual or group with responsibility for this area among a number of others , but not for the whole course programme : |
| 16 | Success rates are provided for the whole sample taking the test items , not for the three attainment bands defined in Chapter 3 ( pp. 27–40 ) . |
| 17 | Some forms ( Turrilites ) adopted the helical spire , and were it not for the obligatory suture lines it might be possible to mistake these species for large gastropods . |
| 18 | The strain of the foster colony is chosen for good mothering ability and preferably the coat colour should be different from the animals to be fostered , or the mating arranged so that the natural young of the foster mother are not of the same coat colour as the pups to be fostered . |
| 19 | Congress , not so long ago we had Panorama and I T V , and I congratulate both of 'em , for highlighting to the world the problems of temporary and low paid part-time workers , where one agent went under cover and where Panorama highlighted that temporary working conditions , not of back-street sweatshops , not of the little corner shops down the road , or th or the little needlework factories , but of E M I , one of our biggest producers in this country , that they were employing labour for one year eleven months and twenty eight days and then sacking 'em . |
| 20 | Fifty-eight per cent of all British households are not of the nuclear family type according to 1966 data , and one in twenty of all households is a single-parent family . |
| 21 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 22 | If they are a hit , to use a word perhaps not of the big band era , it is probable they will be booked monthly . |
| 23 | He has often argued that one of Microsoft 's key competitive advantages is precisely that his firm is not like the old computer giants , offering customers everything from chips and computers to software and service contracts . |
| 24 | Grant , who was on stand-by for the full squad for a European Championship qualifier against Romania last season , was , Roxburgh reasoned , not unlike the effervescent Stuart McCall of Rangers . |
| 25 | In order to make sense of them inferential skills may be needed , as well as an understanding of certain principles not unlike the minimal distance principle that operates for pronominal reference . |
| 26 | It is a natural barrier , not unlike the man-made Iron Curtain or the Berlin Wall ; but it seems to divide men as fiercely . |
| 27 | He wore a blazer , not unlike the one Lord Woodleigh wore except that instead of discreet brass buttons it was decorated by no fewer than five enormous , tinselly affairs . |
| 28 | Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich . |
| 29 | He puffed at it , producing not a discernible tune but a catchy rhythm , while attempting a dance not unlike the Irish clog variety . |
| 30 | There used to be a polled Irish Dun dairy breed not unlike the old Suffolk Dun of eastern England . |