Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first three years of the experiment not a single pedestrian was injured seriously enough while crossing the road to feel that it warranted reporting . |
| 2 | The round still proves the soundest of methods : even given limited rehearsal time , there was much security in the warm-up sequence , a point surprisingly made with This Little Babe from Britten 's A Ceremony Of Carols , and by the time we reached Runswick 's final party ensemble not a single face on stage I could see registered anything less than complete involvement . |
| 3 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 4 | erm I have er one to one dealing with subcontractors engineers the architects and site meetings not a great preparation but there is |
| 5 | Interferon is of course not a new discovery — it was first reported in 1957 by Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann working at the National Institute for Medical Research in London . |
| 6 | ‘ We were putting forward an overall package because of the financial problems facing so many small clubs not a quick-fix job . ’ |
| 7 | Where many of the other factors below are missing from a sale , the exclusion of goodwill from the sale will almost certainly make the transfer not a going concern . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought this was meant to be a friendly chat not a bloody interrogation . ’ |
| 9 | Private property , as an institution , effects not a closer relationship between people and objects , as is often thought , but a greater separation than was hitherto possible . |
| 10 | The old political domination of governing bodies has largely been broken and a typical governors ' meeting is a business session not a social occasion . |
| 11 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Llanelli ( Mr. Davies ) explained , at Maastricht not a single word was spoken about full employment . |
| 12 | It 's property owned by a public body not a private company . |
| 13 | And secondly , drama is a social event not a solitary experience . |
| 14 | The second is organicism : that is , Conservatives regard society as ‘ a unitary , natural growth , an organized living whole not a mechanical aggregate ’ , which in turn implies that they are resistant to arguments which reduce society to component parts like classes or atomistic individuals . |
| 15 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 16 | Our aim this time is to free the exhibition from its ball and chain , abolishing any kind of categorisation and seeking a natural relationship between the spectator and art not a contemplative relationship but an active one trying to create complicity between the work of art and its beneficiary . |
| 17 | Instead it proposes that the 50 mg/litre limit should be treated as an average not a fixed limit . |
| 18 | You 're meant to be thinking about your big ride not a married man . ’ |
| 19 | It is a relatively small sum that you 're talking about here because there are not that many employees with long service involved , and so the indemnity is , in our terms not a sizable amount , but I can understand Age Concern 's worries in terms of simply pick picking it up as part of transfer , and why we 'd certainly recommend it to you . |
| 20 | Currey noted : ‘ Although the treaty goes out to the World as the concurrent agreement of the tribe , it is in reality nothing more than the agreement of Lawyer and his band , numbering in the aggregate not a third part of the Nez Perce tribe . ’ |
| 21 | Yet so firmly established is the image of Hardy as a rustic provincial that Virgil rates not a single entry in the index to J.O . |
| 22 | I 'm your daughter not a bloody suspect . ’ |
| 23 | To the Annual Conference of the union in September 1915 he reported that " the Government had commandeered the Camp " , and that , when they eventually handed it back , reinstated as agricultural land , which he doubted that they ever would , compensation and rent paid or payable would ensure that " the maintenance of aliens at Eastcote would have cost the Union not a single farthing " and provide a useful start to its programme of Homes for Seamen . |
| 24 | Gaps arise , first , because private policies generally offer incomplete ( or no ) coverage of chronic or pre-existing medical problems because the likelihood of treatment is too high , nor of the medical costs associated with pregnancy because this is the result of deliberate choice not a random risk . |
| 25 | I once walked , or rather limped , the thirteen miles of tarmac , plagued by a protruding nail in the sole of my shoe which was digging a small crater in my heel , and during the whole journey not a single vehicle passed me . |
| 26 | Wallace not a bad buy . |
| 27 | If the message Not a valid filename appears , your filename does not obey the rules . |
| 28 | In all probability not a single fox will live or die as a consequence of any vote we take this afternoon . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , Muslim scholars see in sixteenth-century Europe not a scientific renaissance but a reactivation . |
| 30 | We take as the basic model not a single game , but a system consisting of a linked set of subjective games , one for each player . |