Example sentences of "[adv] not [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought about that : perhaps not actually a householder , just someone with access to the two houses in Mouncy Street , his own house and the one next door . |
| 2 | It is perhaps not entirely a coincidence that his question was due to be answered today and the representations from the two trade unions arrived in the Department yesterday . |
| 3 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 4 | But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency . |
| 5 | For him , the first question is , ‘ By what criteria do we come to locate or mislocate sensations as being in some sense of ‘ in ’ in the right knee or in the pit of the stomach ? ’ , as though it were obviously not simply a matter of having the sensation in a certain place . |
| 6 | I know the truth — Heavenly Father sent me a message , last night , like little Samuel only not just a voice , a vision , a terrible , terrible dream that would not go away … |
| 7 | Alternatively , if the company fell on hard times , the instrument took on not only a debt , but a highly onerous debt feature when the company 's need would have been for equity . |
| 8 | They are thus not simply a mentality derived from popular religion but from a traditional Roman catholicism which held sway in catholic Europe from the post-Reformation period and remained unchallenged until the 1960s . |
| 9 | The dream process is thus not only a way of rehearsing new experiences but of commenting on them and resolving conflicts . |
| 10 | Social responsibility is thus not merely a matter of the adoption of changed standards on a voluntary basis . |
| 11 | Not not quite a law for the rich and law for the poor , |
| 12 | She was not at all good-looking , or graceful , or winning , but a mere maiden ; possibly not even a country girl , but a London servant at the great house of Burdcrop nearby . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , this attitude was probably not entirely a matter of hubris since the Treasury may well have had genuine doubts as to the potential effectiveness of planning [ Brittan , 1971 ] . |
| 14 | IT IS now not just a question of how long can John Major survive , but whether the Tory Government can stay its term . |
| 15 | In it is Louis Jourdan , once fabulous-looking but now not just a shadow of his former self . |
| 16 | According to their rhetoric , public morals were now not merely a job for the criminal law , but for a wide spectrum of social agencies . |
| 17 | It is now not only a feature of the relationship between blacks and whites . |
| 18 | Legally not strictly a cow , but just as strange and with a Glasgow connection is this next item . |
| 19 | In practical cases in computing , in a tree , the children of each node are often not just a set . |
| 20 | Here we have to work around not only a collection of possessions which have become part of our lives , but also carpets or curtains or wall coverings we feel we ca n't afford to replace . |
| 21 | Well not even a week , six days . |
| 22 | Ah we were supposed to be gon na like have a little gathering for my birthday party , well not normally a birthday party |
| 23 | This picture is , however , a caricature of Roman Catholic teaching on the subject , although unfortunately not always a caricature of Catholic practice . |
| 24 | Maybe not just a toddler but he was pre-school . |
| 25 | Political obligation is then not just a matter of obeying the discrete political decisions of the community one by one , as political philosophers usually represent it . |
| 26 | At this point it should be remembered that the proportion of the population which any particular age cohort constitutes during its lifetime is not only or indeed not mainly a function of its own initial size and subsequent mortality rate : it also depends upon the absolute size of all other cohorts and their mortality rates . |
| 27 | Why not also a Charter for the Reader , covering expected book provision in schools , public libraries , colleges and universities ? |
| 28 | Why not also a Charter for the Reader , covering expected book provision in schools , public libraries , colleges and universities ? |
| 29 | If you have a problem with colour mixing for instance , why not direct a question to Michael Wilcox ? |
| 30 | If you have a problem with colour mixing for instance , why not direct a question to Michael Wilcox ? |