Example sentences of "[adv] not the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is very much not the case with Tolkien .
2 But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting .
3 However , if divergers are more unconventional , we might expect that some divergent girls would choose science , but this is apparently not the case .
4 This was apparently not the case in the co-transfection experiment with N-Oct 3 and N-Oct 5 expression plasmids ( Figure 4 ) .
5 When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over .
6 ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges .
7 Not Virgil , especially not the Aeneid , where he has no story worth telling , no sense of personality .
8 Especially not the car nearest us … the passenger
9 Some of the children in our study felt desperately disappointed that they had not been adopted , and yet they did have a home which would continue to be available to them in their adult life and had found a kind of loving , though perhaps not the all-accepting , all-loving parent of their dreams .
10 We we are n't , perhaps not the world-power that we used to be .
11 ‘ He is not — well , he is perhaps not the man you would expect .
12 But whether or not it is a completely accurate report of what actually happened is perhaps not the point .
13 Well , perhaps not the politics .
14 Would you also agree that haphazard impulse is perhaps not the sort of attribute we 're looking for ? ’
15 This developmental ideal is expressed in the German term ‘ Erziehung ’ ( pedagogy ) of which school-based education is therefore only a partial aspect ( and obviously not the concern of this legislation ) .
16 This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically .
17 This is obviously not the case .
18 This is obviously not the time for celebratory gestures .
19 Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about .
20 I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do .
21 Anyway , someone pointed out that the face in the mirror was obviously not the face of the woman looking into it , something to do with the angle at which the mirror was held , and what theory they attached to that , whether it had been intended , or a mistake , or even an overpainting at a later date — he did not remember that he had known about that .
22 The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping .
23 Er I think that was the sign to sit down not the sign to sit down and chatter
24 One of the members , who included seven householders , three servants ( presumably journeymen ) and a clerk , was Janyn Perowe , assessed at 40s. ; another was John Richard , a £10 man , and presumably not the labourer of the same name .
25 There were places where it was effectively not the Principal but the local authority that was running the college — a tradition of detailed local authority control over further education Institutions that it was difficult to break even in developed institutions .
26 Marx 's and Engels 's materialism is thus not the denial of the importance of ideas , concepts , and values for people , like the materialism of Feuerbach , but an assertion that ideas ultimately have a material origin in the real conditions of existence , a history which consists in a complicated interplay and conflict of different factors , some directly material , some mental ( though material in origin ) .
27 ‘ I am just not the type to keep playing tennis at 28 or 29 , ’ the 23-year-old revealed yesterday .
28 ‘ I 'm not nervous , ’ says Dolores , ‘ but I 'm just not the type of person who goes out and can say ( adopts hysterical Lita Ford persona , clenched fists raised to the sky etc . )
29 ‘ He 's just not the type , is he , Bob ?
30 ‘ I know , I know , it 's early days , as you said — but you 're just not the type to let him go this far if you had any serious doubts . ’
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