Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That weapon could certainly continue to fire ordinary bolts yet not a second hellfire shell without a perilous pause for reloading … |
| 2 | Not a second time . |
| 3 | it 's not a second edition of the brochure it 's just an updating of the figures that are included within the brochure |
| 4 | Analysis of psychological processes is not a second rate substitute for studying the brain directly but a necessary adjunct to guiding our explorations of that organ . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not a fifth columnist , you know ! |
| 6 | Miles , Bell and Gregory may be getting older , but there is not a First Division club who would not move in if they became available . ’ |
| 7 | So , you know , they 're taking a second mortgage , not a first mortgage , because we 've already mortgaged it . |
| 8 | An indication of the strength of the tournament could be seen from the presence of Fiji ( albeit not a first string seven ) and New Zealand provincial champions Canterbury , who defeated Australia in their pool , in the plate competition . |
| 9 | Having been told that there can be a contract either for the sale of specific goods or for the sale of unascertained goods , one might ask , ‘ Is there not a third category ? |
| 10 | Currey noted : ‘ Although the treaty goes out to the World as the concurrent agreement of the tribe , it is in reality nothing more than the agreement of Lawyer and his band , numbering in the aggregate not a third part of the Nez Perce tribe . ’ |
| 11 | The central issue is whether or not a Third World bourgeoisie can become hegemonic in its own realm and drive towards ‘ real ’ development ( as Becker asserts for Peru 's ‘ New Bourgeoisie ’ ) or whether the only realistic option for Third World bourgeoisies , under the present system of global capitalist hegemony , is to throw their lot in with the TNCs , as Evans argues for the triple alliance in Brazil . |
| 12 | Indeed it has been said that ‘ [ i ] n reality in any legal system a legal person created by an agreement is not a third party to that agreement . ’ |
| 13 | But if that was n't a second smokescreen settling on Oxendown House as fast as possible after Charlie 's Indians had withdrawn their own , then I do n't know smoke signals when I smell them . |
| 14 | ‘ It was n't a last minute job . |