Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He paused at one point on a low hill and cried aloud — perhaps not without a touch of relish for the dramatic , characteristic of his age — ‘ William , dearest little brother ! |
| 2 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 3 | Ruppia maritima or R. cirrhosa occurs in the Outer Hebrides as a species of brackish lochs , and perhaps not as a constituent of saltmarsh as referred to by Adams(1981) and in the NVC . |
| 4 | His Poems , think them all not worth a Straw . |
| 5 | The Scottish Typographical Circular for instance rather specialized in joke articles over a woman 's signature which are obviously not by a woman at all . |
| 6 | Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room . |
| 7 | Being married , of course , Andy is presumably not in a group to pull birds ? |
| 8 | On the French side although the Communists failed to form a government and were thus not in a position to change French policy towards Vietnam — whether they would have wanted to do so is not quite so clear — the impasse between them and the MRP had resulted in a caretaker government under the veteran Socialist party leader , Leon Blum ; and Blum , calling for an end to equivocation and an absolutely clear definition of policy , had urged not only confidence and friendship but ‘ sincere agreement ’ on the basis of Vietnamese independence . |
| 9 | In a situation in which no one party is likely to be in an overall majority in the Commons then the electorate is just not in a position where it can realistically choose between alternative programmes and alternative teams of leaders sure in the knowledge that the winning team will be available to form a government and eager to try and implement its electoral programme . |
| 10 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 11 | I I mean , you 're anything like that , but not not for a month , I mean . |
| 12 | Bandung File ( C4 ) also ended last night-really ended , the last programme of its fourth and last series , for reasons still not clear-with a profile of the only Arab ever to win the Nobel Prize for literature , the Egyptian novelist and poet Naguib Mahfouz . |
| 13 | The writer is aware of an agreement for lease granted in 1965 purporting to grant a 21-year lease where the landlord was still not in a position to grant the lease by the expiration of the agreed term in 1986 . |
| 14 | Certain games can be used to raise spatial awareness — preferably not as an end in themselves , but to lead into some sort of drama work . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't creep up on people like that , specially not in a bank , for Christ 's sake . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I am sorry to bother you , and I 'm honestly not from a newspaper . ’ |
| 17 | No probably not in a sense but then when complete enough to actually use is another matter . |
| 18 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 19 | Only a small fraction would elude this category if we accept that , contrary to much contemporary opinion , paupers were largely made up not of a delinquent or a wilfully dependent population but of those who could not work either through incapacity or age , or who could not , in the vagaries of the labour market , find work . |
| 20 | Dixon , who campaigned upon the promise to " clean City Hall out not with a broom , but a shovel " , had been the first of the candidates to call for Barry 's resignation . |
| 21 | Some only found out when their supplier told them that they could no longer buy tetra unless they could certify that it was going to be used in a ‘ non-dispersive manner ’ — ie not as a solvent even in a closed system . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Our suggestions are simply intended as memory joggers — and emphatically not as a guide to what should , or should not , constitute a luxury . |
| 24 | Cos it 's so like the original and oh you ca n't really test er metal for date , well not without a lot of problems anyway . |
| 25 | This modern view has come about not as a result of any further substantial constitutional developments — perhaps strangely , or perhaps significantly , the issue has never been seriously tested — rather , it has come to enjoy widespread , although not universal acquiescence largely because Dicey ( following Stephen and an equivocating Blackstone ) posited it as a central feature of the English constitution and because it has a deceptively simple logical appeal . |
| 26 | The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days . |
| 27 | These results are important for plate tectonic theory because they show that the Earth is not currently expanding as has been suggested by a small minority of earth scientists , at least not at a rate which is significant compared with rates of plate motion . |
| 28 | And Ellie did not wish to lose Mr O'Hara , at least not as a friend . |
| 29 | ‘ Not well — at least not as a friend , ’ I said . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the Feldwebel was talking excitedly to the driver like a school-boy egging on an accomplice to do something which he is fortunately not in a position to do himself . |