Example sentences of "[verb] not a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Three years at a nice school in Vienna , not too liberated , but at the same time not a convent school . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I felt even readier when I saw not a Gharrgoyle insight at Gharr 's table . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We 've not a reading man among us , ’ said Lucie dejectedly . |
| 10 | Oh I see not a funeral notice ? |
| 11 | ‘ For God 's sake , ’ choked Meredith , ‘ I 've a nose-bleed not a stomach wound . ’ |