Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digging through the literary evidence the biblical detectives found not one set of fingerprints but at least four . |
| 2 | The covenant was not just an important past event preserved by tradition but was the theme of what Gunnell calls ‘ a communal drama played out between Yahweh — He who will be there — and His people in time ’ , for in the words of Deuteronomy 5 : 3 , ‘ The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers , but with us , even us , who are all of us here alive this day . ’ |
| 3 | Leith wasted not another second . |
| 4 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |
| 5 | Mr Charles remembered marvelling at how my father showed not one hint of discomfort or anger , but continued to drive with an expression balanced perfectly between personal dignity and readiness to oblige . |
| 6 | They recorded not one instance of drinking or of thirst in a dream . |
| 7 | Its principal commandment , ‘ Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law ’ , to him meant not vulgar hedonism but the honest and honourable fulfilment of a person 's deepest potential . |
| 8 | When master-manufacturers talked of the danger of communism which lurked behind any limitation of the absolute right of employers to hire and fire at will , they meant not social revolution but merely that the right of property and the right of domination were indistinguishable , and a bourgeois society must go to the dogs once interference with property rights was permitted . |
| 9 | Eventually I stopped asking , because I could n't bear the sad little shake of his head that meant Not this time either . |
| 10 | It mattered not that Kite was beaten by Suzuki and Strange by Ozaki for the Americans already had an unassailable 3 ½ points on the board . |
| 11 | We saw not another soul , even when we finally reached the clearing where a number of circular dustbin-sized holes had been neatly excavated in the red mud . |
| 12 | In 1981 , President Samora Machel stressed not democratic participation in school management but the responsibility of pupils to achieve good marks to justify the money and effort expended by the community . |
| 13 | ‘ Knew not one end of a sheep from the other . |
| 14 | Loss of faith in a traditional God-the-Father brought not spiritual anguish but freedom to explore more Motherly aspects of deity and the divinity of Nature . |
| 15 | Maternal influence did not much interest contemporaries usually , unless some obvious connection could be established , or possibly where the connections on the distaff side were more impressive and influential . |
| 16 | He himself did not much value the small detached territories — Cleves , Mark , Ravensberg — which he ruled in the Rhineland . |
| 17 | The UFC 1989 Review 225 admitted that the numerical totals of publications were not found to be helpful in the assessment process , and their panels were agreed that quantity did not equal quality . |
| 18 | The UFC 1989 Review admitted that the numerical totals of publications were not found to be helpful in the assessment process , and their panels were agreed that quantity did not equal quality . |
| 19 | Did not this column say , when the apparently creaking colossus joined Durham , that as long as he is capable of playing for a county he must play for England . |
| 20 | When Greenidge was finally caught behind , he had made 223 in nine and three-quarter hours , a phenomenal effort of concentration on a pitch of uneven bounce , for he gave not one chance throughout . |
| 21 | I gave not one cheep , not a chirrup — |
| 22 | Moreover the Treaty of Montlouis said not one word about Eleanor . |
| 23 | It did n't matter if they were town councillors or what , if these policemen said not this way , this way and they said no I live this way , they got a clip in the ear as quick as anything . |
| 24 | Not because I suppose and I must condemn any particulars group we all , in the end said not this time . |
| 25 | and he certainly had not much patience and we had never seen this afore . |
| 26 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 27 | He learned about world events rather as a Trobriand Islander might — from chance remarks and accidental contacts — and , from the little he had heard , he had not much desire to know more . |
| 28 | They had not much time . |
| 29 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 30 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |