Example sentences of "[not/n't] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't compete , not with a machine , for God 's sake . ’ |
| 2 | He mixed his hot rum and water , not with a spoon , but with a file , which he put back in his pocket when he had finished . |
| 3 | Not with a plot like this . |
| 4 | He envied Boxer Sullivan waiting for him in the farmhouse , as like as not with a bottle of beer in front of him or at the very least a cup of tea . |
| 5 | They would n't send you home , not with a story like that . ’ |
| 6 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 7 | He is conscious of Marjorie 's watery blue eyes scanning him speculatively over the rim of her teacup , inviting further discussion of Sandra , but he ca n't face it , not this morning , not with a day 's work ahead of him . |
| 8 | In a two page epilogue the author merely states that nowadays students begin not with a description of chemicals and reactions but by learning Schrödinger 's equation and the shapes of orbitals . |
| 9 | You have taken liberties that you can take with a son , but not with a leader ’ ( Bourne : 1987 , p. 243 ) . |
| 10 | Not with a bang but a whimper . |
| 11 | It seemed fitting for Thatcherism to end , not with a bang , but with the protracted whimper of a ‘ hung ’ parliament ; with the Tories struggling on for days trying to patch up some squalid deal with the Ulster Unionists , before Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown were driven to 10 Downing Street in their Daimlers . |
| 12 | This is how careers end , Adjudicator : not with a bang , but with a whimper . ’ |
| 13 | Everything will end not with a bang but a whisper — a whisper of last words . |
| 14 | They do it hard , not with a smirk on the face . |
| 15 | They do it hard , not with a smirk on the face . |
| 16 | are not with a client whether for Investment Business or otherwise |
| 17 | Given that the aim is one of certainty , and that here the contract is not with a consumer , the likelihood is that s 8 of the UCTA will have no effect on this clause . |
| 18 | The lights went on ; we leapt up and pounced on them , adding our howls of ingrate triumph to the general confusion — ending the happy myth not with a whimper but a bang , while Addy , the fellow-conspirator , leant against the wall and laughed herself to helplessness … |
| 19 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
| 20 | ‘ The brave man had killed the thing he loved , ’ if not with a sword , at least with a razor . |
| 21 | Whatever he thought he was doing here , it does n't look like an assignation , not with a woman anyway . |
| 22 | Comparable remarks could be made about Theseus and Achilles because they too at times wore women 's clothes and had their ideal relationship not with a woman , but with a man , as Gilgamesh did . |
| 23 | If you can not resolve the matter amicably , I suggest you contact the local council — not with a view to making a direct complaint , but just to establish what the regulations are concerning open fires . |
| 24 | Not with a view to conciliating those readers who on principle object to sequels , but as a matter of fact , the Author wishes to say that he does not so regard this book . |
| 25 | The prohibitions in the CSA 1985 are rendered ineffective where the defendant can show that , notwithstanding the fact that he fulfilled all the conditions mentioned in ss.1 and 2 CSA 1985 , the dominant purpose of his trade was not with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss for either himself or another person . |
| 26 | Its liberal recommendations reflected de Gaulle 's own view that France had to satisfy African demands for development , not with a view to eventual decolonization , but on the contrary in order to tie the empire more securely to France in the postwar era . |
| 27 | The general relieving provision in s740 , where transfers took place , etc not with a view to avoiding tax or which were carried out for bona fide commercial reasons , applies to ss739 and 740 . |
| 28 | Not with a book . |
| 29 | Not with a thing like a outputs of aspirin , I mean everyone in Boots knows what the outputs of aspirin are just strange that they are in fact three times what we 'd thought they were and we 've course there 's Crooks , course there 's this , course there 's that tremendous discernment , tremendous understanding but if you have n't got that tremendous understanding , you 've just joined the company , you think you know something and you do n't because not what they think they are |
| 30 | But Sairellen knew all too well that had Luke not been delirious with fever that day he would surely have marched to Halifax ; not with a pitchfork or a flail or a home-made pike in his hands , since he had never been a " physical force " man but there , just the same . |