Example sentences of "[not/n't] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | True , she was not Warren 's courtesan , but what of Benedict ? |
| 32 | It was not Ramsay 's place to rebuke them , and Sir Archibald did not do so — for in the circumstances it looked as though no harm was done . |
| 33 | ‘ No reason you should — you 're not Roman 's type , are you , Claudia ? |
| 34 | It is not wholly surprising , and is certainly not W. 's fault , that she remained in the grip of the disease , gradually losing weight or that on one occasion she used violence towards a member of the staff in circumstances which led to the police being called . |
| 35 | Their estrangement occurred with the publication of Not Daddy 's Girl , her angry book about Ingmar , who left her mother Ellen when Anna was two . |
| 36 | The greatest stimulant to ‘ false hopes ’ in the Warsaw Pact countries is not NATO 's hostility , but its existence ; the permanence of Socialism in Eastern Europe may never be assured whilst the pre-eminence of the Soviet Union in all of Europe is in dispute . |
| 37 | A late nineteenth-century Hepplewhite revival led to an 1897 reprint of the Guide by Batsford , and a modest myth grew up around George Hepplewhite , who was stated to have been apprenticed to Gillows of Lancaster and London ; in 1801 , however , they wrote ‘ We have not Hebbelthwaite 's Publication . ’ |
| 38 | It is not Theda 's intention . |
| 39 | ‘ It 's not Flint 's ship . |
| 40 | That was not Therese 's way to treat the sea . |
| 41 | It is clearly not Amnesty 's view that damage to a woman 's marriage prospects is the sole or main reason for opposing rape . |
| 42 | It was not Duncan 's instinct to share his innermost emotions with Myeloski . |
| 43 | This was not Dickens ' fault that he changed the ending , he was practically forced to do it by a friend . |
| 44 | The plan that was now beginning to hatch in her mind depended , however , upon whether or not Fred 's parrot was really as good a talker as Fred made out . |
| 45 | That 's not Tom 's style . |
| 46 | But that was not Coleridge 's intention . |
| 47 | However it was not Tolkien 's way to deny orthodoxy : nor to abjure equally old and traditional belief in the allure of elves and their separation from evil . |
| 48 | Amis 's Lucky Jim is not Tolkien 's Frodo . |
| 49 | Basal and stimulated platelet activating factor activity of epithelial and lamina propria cells from ulcerative colitis but not Crohn 's disease patients was appreciably higher than that of control . |
| 50 | His name was not Albert McKillop and he was not Elsie 's brother . |
| 51 | He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience . |
| 52 | The boys of King 's College School ( not King 's college , as listed on the cover ) perform with appropriate gusto in the Lionel Bart numbers , and there are strong contributions from the adult professionals and the National So under John Owen Edwards . |
| 53 | It was not Virgin 's responsibility , but from Chemical 's headquarters in New York , the instruction went out to terminate a number of existing contracts negotiated by the London office — Virgin 's among them . |
| 54 | They were not Harry 's creation : they were too recently generated to have been from him . |
| 55 | Feathers , who was not Harry 's father , told the court he threw the baby on the bed because he would not stop crying . |
| 56 | And in God 's plan at this particular moment i this was not Philip 's function , it was n't his job . |
| 57 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 58 | This applies whether or not accountants ' work is investment business in itself under the FSA . |
| 59 | This was not Phoebe 's place and she knew quite simply that tomorrow morning she would go to see her own GP and organize the necessary hospital visit . |
| 60 | Now , coiled here , she thought it was not Phoebe 's fault , it was the dullness of being an adult ; it was the natural flavour of the world once one had said goodbye to childhood . |