Example sentences of "[adj] not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications . |
| 2 | the movement which , at the close of the colonial era , led it to be asked of the West what entitles its culture , its science , its social organization , and finally its rationality itself , to be able to claim universal validity : was this not a mirage associated with economic domination and political hegemony ? |
| 3 | The Kenyans have gone to enormous trouble to make this not a murder . ’ |
| 4 | Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ? |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the print echo is only active whilst the CLI indicator is present , so this not a lot of use to us ! |
| 6 | is this not a recipe for disaster ? |
| 7 | Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ? |
| 8 | Were this not the case , the buy-in would be tax free to a corporate shareholder because , by virtue of s208 , the corporate shareholder would not be liable to corporation tax on the distribution , unless it is taken into account in the shareholder 's capital gains tax computation ( the latter not being precluded by s208 ) . |
| 9 | At least , is this not the tendency in the beginning with most very young children and certainly with lively , healthy ones ? |
| 10 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 11 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 12 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 13 | ‘ Was that not a bit risky ? ’ |
| 14 | Is that not a co-operative ? |
| 15 | Does your husband accept that perhaps he ought to be looking after the baby alternate weeks , or is that not a solution to the problem ? |
| 16 | think that format 's alright , is that not a contradiction because if it 's a joint statement and this format 's alright you 've got staff comment divorced from pupil comment ? |
| 17 | It should be noted , first , that not every class , in all circumstances , shows the capacity to create those organizations which are essential if it is to engage seriously in political struggles . |
| 18 | But was that not the stable where little Tom … ? |
| 19 | Mr , is that not the case . |
| 20 | Miss Logan , embarrassed by Our Lord 's words to Nicodemus , was instead thinking about bitumen : was that not the material used by artists to blacken the shadows in their paintings ? |
| 21 | When it comes to really assist those who er of the so I I would be grateful if members would remember that this item is on the agenda because first of all petition received and secondly because there is no explanation in that not the time to discuss whether this application should be . |
| 22 | That not the point |
| 23 | Is that not the truth ? |
| 24 | Was that not the reason behind Kronweiser 's enquiry at Olivera 's ? |
| 25 | That not the obedience to rules , but the ‘ sense of honour ’ enables agents to ‘ engender all the practices consistent with the logic of challenge and riposte ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Is that not the job of our local police ? ’ |
| 27 | Is that not an example of private wealth at the expense of public underfunding ? |
| 28 | In an isotropic medium ( in which the dielectric constant is a scalar not a tensor ) the directions of the E and D lines coincide , thus Figs. 2.40 and 2.41 may refer to either . |
| 29 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 30 | An enormous variety of reasons , and by and large not the sort of reasons that advertisers would hope that they did give . |