Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and not a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we ask who is to gauge that ( presumably not God ) , he gives the unhelpful and not a little pompous reply that it is ‘ known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age ’ ( p. 64 ) . |
| 2 | The roar was held by some to be that of the dispossessed and not a train at all . |
| 3 | It was common ground that the scheme , though set up pursuant to a statutory obligation , was a private and not a public law scheme so that the procedure by way of originating summons rather than judicial review was appropriate . |
| 4 | We are , after all , performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis . |
| 5 | Thirdly , the move towards a national curriculum was resisted most strongly by those , mainly teachers and other educationists , who claimed that the nature and scope of the school curriculum was a professional and not a political matter . |
| 6 | Andre Beteille argues that the search for a biological basis for social stratification is bound to end in failure since the ‘ identification as well as the gradation of qualities is a cultural and not a natural process ’ . |
| 7 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 8 | Here , a constant and not a chance model of anarchic relations via exchange is obligatory … the law of value is merely the law of equilibrium of an anarchic commodity system … |
| 9 | When the shoes were changed , I knew that the hound must be a natural and not a supernatural creature . |
| 10 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
| 11 | First of all , it is a thrusting and not a snapping kick . |
| 12 | But the rapid and dramatic changes which are taking place in the world today , changes of a hopeful and not a frightening kind , could help to make a long-serving government more vulnerable to the time-for-a-change mentality . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom is a unitary and not a federal state , thus if central government is really serious about any policy it will get its way ( Griffith , 1965 ) . |
| 14 | That Vic Williams was a voluntary and not a conscripted soldier was irrelevant to the issue of conscientious objection , she added . |
| 15 | It was a lengthy and not a little dangerous , chemical process requiring the gas to be cooled through a large tub of water from barrels containing iron filings onto which sulphuric acid had been poured . |
| 16 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 17 | But on 4 November 1991 , the Court of Appeal ( Cooke P. , Richardson and Hardie Boys JJ. ) held that the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right against the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 4 October 1991 because that judgment was an interlocutory and not a final judgment and refused leave to the petitioner to appeal to the Board . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's political as Greenfields is in an independent and not a Labour ward , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Indeed , your latest victim seems to have been a veritable bundle of surprises — not a maidservant but a duchess , not dead but alive — and , to top all , affianced to an eleven-year-old and not a virgin ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This meeting is an educational and not a political exercise . |
| 21 | Once you have begun to understand that recharging yourself is an active and not a passive exercise , the next step is to learn to use your most powerful tool : the mind . |
| 22 | I listened and learned , watched and learned , and soon became adept at striking the first blow : if there was any teasing and tormenting going on ( and there was plenty ) I made sure that I was an active and not a passive participant . |