Example sentences of "[not/n't] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some know not that each Person in the Trinity is God ; nor that Christ is God and man ; nor that he took his human nature with him into heaven ; nor many the like necessary principles of our faith . |
| 2 | It was not that each child was continually talking but every now and then a child would speak to his neighbour or another would leave his place quietly and walk over to another child to speak with him . |
| 3 | It is not that one part of Solidarity supports the free-market experiment and another does n't . |
| 4 | Not that one man had the courage to be evil . |
| 5 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 6 | This might seem inconsistent with the fact that women were living longer , were it not that longer life brought no immediate improvement in their prospects ; it remained a man 's world . |
| 7 | Not that any man would be interested in me with a handicap like Mum . |
| 8 | Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again . |
| 9 | It is a fact that record results were produced last year , but not that this year will be even better . |
| 10 | Of course , the rival may fight back , but the point is not that this type of calculation ensures a successful barrier to entry , but that it provides a way of assessing what it will cost the rival to surmount the barrier to attain cost leadership . |
| 11 | Not that this defence is likely to have an easy afternoon . |
| 12 | Not that this war will bring a ‘ new world order ’ even in the Middle East . |
| 13 | A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 . |
| 14 | Not that this match could be close or anything ; |
| 15 | Not that this production is in any way unbalanced . |
| 16 | Not that this miracle was the end of the tale . |
| 17 | The exception is heart medicines , which can be safely brought up straightaway , but not if some time has passed since they were swallowed . |
| 18 | Putting a layer of polystyrene , either in tile or roll form , onto the ceiling of a room under a flat roof can help , but remember , not if this room is a kitchen . |
| 19 | It is not until that gift has been repaid and the exchange relationship put in balance again that a person will feel no sense of obligation . |
| 20 | Software selection and use in this school has been guided by the policy stated above and it was not until such policy decisions were taken that appropriate software could be chosen . |
| 21 | Not until this matter is settled . ’ |
| 22 | It was not until half way through the sombre reception that doctors told Phil 's anguished family he would survive . |
| 23 | Well , it 's Sunday , but it 's not until next week is it ? |
| 24 | However , it was not until scientific ornithology began to get into its stride in the l9th century that some of the more remarkable aspects of the cuckoo 's behaviour began to be widely known . |
| 25 | John wrote emphatically : ‘ I have made no provision for my son Lawrence other than the bequest of £100 because he had his own business in opposition to mine ; I was willing to work with him and help him but he would not and preferred competition . ’ |
| 26 | The last council yes and why not and this council and we have n't heard the end of it yet , well I 'll be coming to that bit do n't rush , do n't rush me We did ask the Secretary of State not to impose V A T on fuel and light because of the hardship it would impose on the people and in particular elderly pensioners , sick and invalids . |
| 27 | But I 'm not gon na c I 'm not gon na administer if they 're been done or not and double check every model . |
| 28 | ‘ Weak ’ stimuli , activating only a few fibres , fail to induce LTP not because insufficient L-glutamate is released to activate NMDA receptors , but because the level of depolarization provided by the weak input does not produce an adequate reduction of the Mg 2+ block . |
| 29 | Not because that love and desire was mutual , but because he wanted the strongest possible hold over her … |
| 30 | The evidence I have reviewed points to the possibility that poor-quality or transmission-style teaching arises in some subject teaching , not because that subject is being taught by poorly qualified generalists , but by other specialists whose commitments lie elsewhere and whose preferred pedagogical approaches are seen as incompatible with those required in subject areas other than their own . |