Example sentences of "not a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Registration is not a safeguard against damage and the Post Office will only pay compensation if the contents were adequately packed . |
| 2 | Until the end of the last century , knitting was not a pastime in Dent but a livelihood . |
| 3 | The interior of the country is an inhospitable desert of mountains and moors and innumerable lochs : not a desert of desolation but of beautiful and dramatic landscapes . |
| 4 | Despite the scattered details , this was not a description of topography or social structure , but a collection of legal and fiscal rights . |
| 5 | It 's not a base of knowledge but a subset that can be easily manipulated . |
| 6 | It promises , not a bedrock to philosophy and lifestyle , but a feast of weird explanations , a mental trip . |
| 7 | It has to be remembered that Britain of the 1920s was not a land of milk and honey . |
| 8 | Not a word of gratefulness and not a word of forgiveness and not a word of love . |
| 9 | This seemed unnecessary , for Miss Logan had not a word of Turk or Russo or Kurdish or whatever mixture it was the other two communicated in ; but she did as she was told . |
| 10 | Not a word of gratefulness and not a word of forgiveness and not a word of love . |
| 11 | Lady after lady breathed heavier when Pen dashed in and out , and on the days when Wilson was a little late with the supper — which she now undertook to provide — on account of having been delayed taking tea with Mrs Browning there was not a word of complaint but only a diffident enquiry as to how the venerable poetess had seemed . |
| 12 | It is not a history of diagnosis or treatment but of policies and institutions and their relationship to theories of the child mind . |
| 13 | And remember too , despite what we 've been brought up to believe , a suntan is not a symbol of health and fitness . |
| 14 | It 's not a case of helping because in the letters I know what , I know what I 'm doing , I 'm just , I 'm just gone to , |
| 15 | watched — observed — reflected and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude and resignation only . |
| 16 | However Springette v Defoe [ 1992 ] Fam Law 459 ( which was not a case between husband and wife ) decided that where there had been no discussion between the parties about their respective beneficial interests , the Court could not infer an intention of equal shares ; the shares were presumed to be in proportion to their respective contributions . |
| 17 | An entry on the register is not a finding of fact or confirmation of guilt . |
| 18 | It is in fact not a doctrine of neutrality but of moral pluralism . |
| 19 | There is not a shred of evidence that fearsome beasts were ritually slaughtered in the arena or lissome slave-girls routinely sacrificed on the altars of scowling deities . |
| 20 | With some horses , animation that is not a response to anxiety or fear , becomes a thing of the past ; but with others , especially Arabians , cheerfulness and animation continue as a consistent part of their personality . |
| 21 | Nothing in section 13 is to prevent an act from being actionable in tort on a ground specified in section 13(1) where ( a ) the contract interfered with in respect of which the action is brought is not a contract of employment and ( b ) there has been secondary action which does not satisfy the requirements of section 17 . |
| 22 | The House of Lords held that this agreement was not a contract of sale and that the customer was not a ‘ buyer . ’ |
| 23 | When she stepped from the car he had greeted her with careful formality and his manner had remained stiff and impersonal as they began the ride ; but she sensed a tension in him too and knew intuitively that it was not a lack of interest that kept his gaze averted from her . |
| 24 | Not a glimmer of warmth or admiration indicated that the man before them was actually one of the only two England batsmen to hit six centuries against West Indies . |
| 25 | This is not a superabundance of time but , used effectively , it will be just adequate and will allow for about 10 lectures a week . |
| 26 | It was not a call to workaholism and a sense of achievement , but to an abiding relationship with him . |
| 27 | supposed to be an inter-disciplinary mixture of physics and chemistry , in other words , not a bit of physics and a bit of chemistry that you did in isolation , but to be integrated . |
| 28 | Except in the case of the stallion deliberately herding his mares , this is not a question of dominance or bullying . |
| 29 | By the time Woolley arrived in her ward she was turning into a slaughterhouse attendant : she no longer saw them as men but as damaged stock ; if they screamed it was not a sign of pain but a signal to fetch a doctor . |
| 30 | Do not be too familiar , and remember that ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Madam ’ is not a sign of servility but one of respect . |