Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course the water is not heaped up into a cube and so it is perhaps more appropriate , though less convenient , to think of this mass of salt water in its actual context — as a veneer-thin skin which lurks in those troughs and valleys which fall below the mean circumference of the earth 's planetary spheroid . |
| 2 | As Simmel and every subsequent commentator on this work has stressed , The Philosophy of Money is not intended primarily as a treatise on money as an economic form , but as an examination of the increasingly abstract nature of human relations , for which money provides a symbol and an instrument . |
| 3 | Consequently the density reduction due to the high temperature of the fluid going into an upflow is not cancelled out by a density increase due to high concentration . |
| 4 | The government has still not come up with a dump for the masses of intermediate wastes , such as fuel cladding , that the plant would produce . |
| 5 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 6 | And he had not come here as a lover , in any case . |
| 7 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 8 | She briefly told them what had occurred , and asked the lad to look for me and tell me that I must go to the police station and not come home without an officer for protection . |
| 9 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
| 10 | This is clearly er erm a situation where erm we must not knowingly take business which we have not enjoyed before at a price below |
| 11 | Care should be taken to ensure that the tenant 's works are not carried out under an obligation to the landlord or the tenant could be disadvantaged on rent review . |
| 12 | These functions are not carried out in a vacuum ; they are affected by certain key contingencies or variables . |
| 13 | He has a chronic heart condition and it 's very fortunate he 's not suffered more as a result of this attack last night |
| 14 | It had been a mere moment of whiteness seen out of the corner of her eye but it had not moved purposefully like a horse does with a rider . |
| 15 | We 're not a , our our physical body 's not made up of a multitude of hands or a multitude of feet there are feet , and the feet has one function , the hand has another . |
| 16 | All this administrative devolution was done by Conservative Governments , and it was not done out of a feeling of national sentiment , but because of the administrative requirements needed to achieve good government for the Scottish people . |
| 17 | It is essential that the time limit is not seen purely as an opportunity to negotiate renewed permissions with upgraded environmental standards . |
| 18 | Like more orthodox Christians , the alchemists maintained that mankind had suffered a fall ; but this lapse from grace was not seen merely as a matter of original sin . |
| 19 | But consumption does not directly create capital assets whether financed internally or externally , and investment levels in most countries have not risen significantly as a proportion of GDP in Africa over the last twenty years , and reMain 6 or 7 per cent lower than in both the rest of the developing world and in the industrialized world . |
| 20 | As with all great adventures and challenges , the rewards and achievements are not handed out on a plate . |
| 21 | The Eddie was not called forth by an act of human will . |
| 22 | New Zealand have not played together as a unit since last August in South Africa , where they narrowly beat the Springboks . |
| 23 | Independent scaffolding : So called because it is self supporting and not tied in to a structure except as temporary restraint . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , you 're not tied down to a commitment of any sort , ’ she pointed out in a dry tone . |
| 25 | The formal duties and responsibilities of the office of a British Prime Minister are not laid down in a constitution or statute . |
| 26 | But Caroline had not hired on as a saleswoman , and she 'd certainly not hired on to be sociable . |
| 27 | L 178 , p. 5 ) , which , subject to some limited and temporary derogations , provides for the total abolition of ‘ restrictions on movements of capital taking place between persons resident in member states ’ ( article 1 ) , including ‘ direct investments on national territory by non-residents ’ and ‘ acquisition by non-residents of domestic securities not dealt in on a stock exchange ’ ( see points I.A. and III.A. 3 of Annex I to the Directive ) , which are the operations to which the Commission expressly refers . |
| 28 | The South Metropolitan tramways were not brought completely to a standstill and Sutton depôt kept cars on the road . |
| 29 | It is Perhaps a pity that Mary Queen of Scots was not brought up on a diet of d'Ayala . |
| 30 | A feeling she had not known in over a decade slipped through her body . |