Example sentences of "[verb] not a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Even if there iss n't a litter basket where you are , ’ she pointed out , ‘ you can always put paper and things in your pocket until you get to one .
2 Thom has n't a kind word for either of them .
3 Apart from that , he has n't a driving licence , and he was at school on Wednesday afternoon . ’
4 As for the WRI files , I 've yet to come across a shareware program that has n't an ASCII file as well as a WRI file — and you do n't HAVE to print it .
5 However his second Service is marked by a peculiarly English innovation : the introduction of passages for solo voice and organ , which plays not a continuo role but polyphony to which the voice doubles a part or supplies an otherwise missing one :
6 Mr Falt could be forgiven his smirk when , on election day , he was able to report not a body count but a remarkable turnout of voters .
7 However , the most striking difference is that it would see not a motion picture , but a succession of still frames , rather like a slide show .
8 Three years at a nice school in Vienna , not too liberated , but at the same time not a convent school .
9 The World Cup will inevitably become not a sporting event , but a completely commercial package — no longer the peasant game , but sanitised , trussed up and priced for corporate consumption .
10 A weeping standard achieves a different form by having not a bush type but a rambler budded into the top of the stem , from where the long flexible rambler stems hang and drape down like a floral curtain .
11 I felt even readier when I saw not a Gharrgoyle insight at Gharr 's table .
12 When she goes to parties she will wear not a party frock but a summer frock with a bow at the neck and a tie round the waist .
13 We 've not a reading man among us , ’ said Lucie dejectedly .
14 I would have tried to contact you , but I had n't a phone number .
15 She had n't a penny piece with which to bless herself and few skills .
16 Oh I see not a funeral notice ?
17 ‘ For God 's sake , ’ choked Meredith , ‘ I 've a nose-bleed not a stomach wound . ’
18 But they have n't a concrete slab !
19 ‘ I have n't a crystal ball . ’
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