Example sentences of "[adv] not the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much not the case with Tolkien . |
| 2 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 3 | This was apparently not the case in the co-transfection experiment with N-Oct 3 and N-Oct 5 expression plasmids ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 4 | Especially not the car nearest us … the passenger |
| 5 | Would you also agree that haphazard impulse is perhaps not the sort of attribute we 're looking for ? ’ |
| 6 | This developmental ideal is expressed in the German term ‘ Erziehung ’ ( pedagogy ) of which school-based education is therefore only a partial aspect ( and obviously not the concern of this legislation ) . |
| 7 | This is obviously not the time for celebratory gestures . |
| 8 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 9 | Anyway , someone pointed out that the face in the mirror was obviously not the face of the woman looking into it , something to do with the angle at which the mirror was held , and what theory they attached to that , whether it had been intended , or a mistake , or even an overpainting at a later date — he did not remember that he had known about that . |
| 10 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 11 | One of the members , who included seven householders , three servants ( presumably journeymen ) and a clerk , was Janyn Perowe , assessed at 40s. ; another was John Richard , a £10 man , and presumably not the labourer of the same name . |
| 12 | Marx 's and Engels 's materialism is thus not the denial of the importance of ideas , concepts , and values for people , like the materialism of Feuerbach , but an assertion that ideas ultimately have a material origin in the real conditions of existence , a history which consists in a complicated interplay and conflict of different factors , some directly material , some mental ( though material in origin ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not nervous , ’ says Dolores , ‘ but I 'm just not the type of person who goes out and can say ( adopts hysterical Lita Ford persona , clenched fists raised to the sky etc . ) |
| 14 | Sometimes the grown-ups say ‘ well , look , this is just not the type of thing I want my child even to know about . |
| 15 | He 's just not the man to be chief of the Macleans . |
| 16 | With a television series there 's just not the time for that , and it can often become very much of a routine . |
| 17 | No , Peru 's just not the place to be at the moment . ’ |
| 18 | Inspector Neville Oughtibridge , of Wakefield police , said : ‘ The job of policing the town centre has been made easier because there 's just not the amount of money around there used to be . |
| 19 | ‘ Ian , ’ he schmoozed , ‘ you know , you are a prodigy , just not the sort of prodigy you thought you were . |
| 20 | But it 's not not not the issue of it is it ? |
| 21 | Thus the basic demand here was still not the prevention of the mining but the production of an ‘ objective ’ study of the mining 's implications . |
| 22 | This is still not the end of the list . |
| 23 | Hard-hitting humorist Leo Chester contemplates why he 's still not the son of God ( opposite page ) |
| 24 | I have said it before and will say again that I am one such beneficiary , and probably not the sort of beneficiary that was intended when it was decided that a discount would be required . |
| 25 | John Merrill has concluded that the rebellion was probably not the result of conspiracy but rather of the geographical remoteness of the island , the tenuous nature of government authority , and ancient grievances against Seoul . |
| 26 | The erasure was probably not the result of weathering , because Mercury has probably never possessed a significant atmosphere and certainly not for any length of time . |
| 27 | Allergy , although probably not the cause of glue ear , is a factor in its persistence and recurrence and should be taken into consideration when evaluating treatment methods . |
| 28 | It is also not the kind of company that throws its money around so it must be confident making some on Unix . |
| 29 | This was clearly not the case with John Pearson , however , who did not have an incurable deformity , nor was unable to feed . |
| 30 | One was that the crack tip was elliptical or rounded , which is clearly not the case in detail in a material made out of atoms . |