Example sentences of "not [det] [noun] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your son , not some cuckoo in the nest . ’ |
| 2 | Mind you Idlike to think its professionally done , not some woman in the back with an iron : - ) |
| 3 | Perhaps not another break in the ice for … what ? |
| 4 | ‘ There 's not much overlap in the title bases ’ of MIS:Press and M&T Books , Mr Berkowitz said . |
| 5 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 6 | was doing all right , but Norway spruce was doing very badly , because during the war during the Wintertime do you see , there was only the Menai Straits , there and there was not much salt in the air . |
| 7 | Erm , not much drama in the sky . |
| 8 | There was not much rain in the summer and the ground was dry and dusty . |
| 9 | By the time you add a three-way catalytic converter there 's not much difference in the cost of making petrol and diesel engines ; take into account the lower warranty claims on diesels , and they may well actually cost the manufacturer less . |
| 10 | At one point it boasted 13 members who were admirals — not many clubs in the world can stage an annual match called Admirals v The Rest . |
| 11 | If record keys are numeric and there are not many gaps in the sequence , it is often possible to allocate a storage position based directly on the key . |
| 12 | A few places are far , far hotter : stars may be millions of degrees C. There are not many places in the Universe , in short , where the temperature is consistently between 0 and 100°C — let alone , between 0 and 45°C , which Earthly life forms prefer . |
| 13 | Mike Davies , General Manager of the International Tennis Federation , said : ‘ There are not many events in the world that can claim to have continuous sponsorship for 14 years as will be the case of Coca-Cola . |
| 14 | Because they lacked the capacity for complete cultural and political hegemony , he argues , not all elements in the movement were assimilated . |
| 15 | The chief reason given for closure ( by 78% ) was that there was not enough competition in the school ; that against closure , that pupils received more individual attention ( 67% ) . |
| 16 | There are not enough hours in the day to attempt to deal with everything . |
| 17 | She writes , ‘ We live very happily here with not enough hours in the day to cope with very full lives ! ’ |
| 18 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 19 | Eventually there is not enough oxygen in the water to support life , and , to all intents and purposes , the stretch of water dies . |
| 20 | This time the difficulty which confronted the firemen was that there was not enough water in the canal for their pumps to operate properly . |
| 21 | Instead the majority said it was because there were simply not enough people in the family to increase their agricultural production . |
| 22 | There is not enough room in the world for the two of us , he wrote . |