Example sentences of "[adj] and not a " in BNC.
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| 1 | → When you buy goods or equipment you have a legal right to expect them to comply with any description applied : leather not plastic , solid wood and not veneer , or in this case a ‘ 67 and not a 1974 model . |
| 2 | If we ask who is to gauge that ( presumably not God ) , he gives the unhelpful and not a little pompous reply that it is ‘ known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age ’ ( p. 64 ) . |
| 3 | The plucky little hedgehog kept at it until the dog dish was empty and not a scrap remained . |
| 4 | Andre Beteille argues that the search for a biological basis for social stratification is bound to end in failure since the ‘ identification as well as the gradation of qualities is a cultural and not a natural process ’ . |
| 5 | Using Circle K as an example he complained that since the lighting had been removed the corner was dull , dark and dangerous and not a place to walk late at night . |
| 6 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 7 | She walked into the sumptuously furnished sitting-room feeling lost and not a little frightened . |
| 8 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 9 | We are , after all , performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis . |
| 10 | For most women this is tremendously exciting ; but it can also feel strange and not a little unnerving . |
| 11 | It was common ground that the scheme , though set up pursuant to a statutory obligation , was a private and not a public law scheme so that the procedure by way of originating summons rather than judicial review was appropriate . |
| 12 | Thirdly , the move towards a national curriculum was resisted most strongly by those , mainly teachers and other educationists , who claimed that the nature and scope of the school curriculum was a professional and not a political matter . |
| 13 | But the social setting was now precisely that and not a star feature in its own right . |
| 14 | In a service there should be a mix of these and not a concentration on one metre or one key , for example . |
| 15 | Here , a constant and not a chance model of anarchic relations via exchange is obligatory … the law of value is merely the law of equilibrium of an anarchic commodity system … |
| 16 | She looked slightly unamused and not a little worried . |
| 17 | The 7th ( D ) here , if played , would be natural and not a major 7th ( D♯ ) as the guitar accompaniment makes frequent use of a sus 4 chord on the bars of A : that chord containing A , D natural and E. Check out both tab suggestions here to find your preferred position — they both work equally well . |
| 18 | When the shoes were changed , I knew that the hound must be a natural and not a supernatural creature . |
| 19 | I am soaked , cold and not a little lacking in enthusiasm for the next try . |
| 20 | We settled on a classic rock climb from the Etançons valley — the West-South-West Ridge of the Pic Nord des Cavales : a mouthful of a name to be sure and not a route well known outside the area , but Collomb assures of its worth : |
| 21 | But on 4 November 1991 , the Court of Appeal ( Cooke P. , Richardson and Hardie Boys JJ. ) held that the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right against the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 4 October 1991 because that judgment was an interlocutory and not a final judgment and refused leave to the petitioner to appeal to the Board . |
| 22 | OK so the occasional ( ! ) taunt may be made at a footy game but it IS a football match after all and not a place for the fainthearted . |
| 23 | Boyd began to feel better and not a little smug . |
| 24 | However , this seepage was slight and not a problem . |
| 25 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
| 26 | … he might be young , lonely and not a little bewildered , but the way was clear before him at last ; he had taken his orders and been given the pass word , he could win through . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's political as Greenfields is in an independent and not a Labour ward , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I sat there , battered and bruised , very angry and not a little frightened . |
| 29 | Indeed , your latest victim seems to have been a veritable bundle of surprises — not a maidservant but a duchess , not dead but alive — and , to top all , affianced to an eleven-year-old and not a virgin ! ’ |
| 30 | After days of near-solitude Paige found the barrage of questions bewildering and not a little alarming . |