Example sentences of "[verb] not a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small use threatening a man with harm to someone who matters not a rap to him . |
| 2 | This international co-operation between clearinghouses does not preclude international co-operation on an individual library basis , nor does it mean that the Australian , UK and USA clearinghouses will not provide a service to individual libraries in another country which has or has not a clearinghouse of its own . |
| 3 | It is a wild and mischievous allegation , for which the hon. Lady has not a shadow of evidence . |
| 4 | Having inundated us with Mozart last season , it has not a note of Rossini this summer . |
| 5 | While he was away at the buffet , MacMinimum said quietly to John : ‘ For God 's sake , say not a word on railways . |
| 6 | Is it not the case that when the Government privatised the electricity and gas companies they created not a range of companies which could induce real competition for the benefit of customers and the environment but large companies with near monopoly supply status which are not in the least interested in energy efficiency ? |
| 7 | In 1880 , this had already been discerned , but most men gave a growing acceptance to democratic institutions because they seemed to provide not a threat to , but a guarantee of , liberal standards . |
| 8 | A request was received from a household asking for support to turn down an application for a garage but it was deemed not a function for the Association . |
| 9 | A request was received from a household asking for support to turn down an application for a garage but it was deemed not a function for the Association . |
| 10 | I met not a soul on the walk , but the path was in very good condition , a feature we noticed many times in NZ , that the tracks are well looked-after even when apparently hardly used . |
| 11 | What did the word ‘ delicious ’ mean to someone who cared not a fig about cuisine ? |
| 12 | Secondly , all these comments stress not a disavowal of communism , but rather a heightening of metaphysical angst once the reality of Soviet society was disclosed . |
| 13 | She had given not a thought to that . |
| 14 | Heard not a word from SW about the trees left on her doorstep brought up from Jean in September . |
| 15 | It will probably be priced not a mile above 1-2-3 , but it will do things that could n't be attempted with a traditional spreadsheet . ’ |
| 16 | Six out of 10 voters are still not buying and three weeks of slogging seem to have made not a jot of difference . |
| 17 | Herluin had said not a word for or against . |
| 18 | What happened was that I did the work and received not a word from anybody about it . |
| 19 | Does he realise that the islanders have run the ferry for many years and that until this year they received not a penny of subsidy , unlike the Scottish ferries ? |
| 20 | The fact is that urban Britain faced not a period of standstill but of dramatic growth and reordering . |
| 21 | With a faint smile that showed not a hint of regret , he brushed his mouth against hers . |
| 22 | The leading vehicle , driven by Fire Chief Bob Wallace , reinforced by short lengths of steel girder welded across its front , lost not a yard of its gathering momentum as it smashed through the inner set of gates , flinging them wide to hang drunkenly from their torn hinges . |
| 23 | Neither Sir Martin Jebeau 's gun nor that of his stableman , Richard Smith , had been fired , and both guns were found not a yard from each other . |
| 24 | He has proved not a tamer of wild beasts , but a tamer of wild lives . |
| 25 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 26 | ‘ This part of the country ’ , wrote Eliza , ‘ resembles for miles a succession of parks thickly dotted with tall slender trees of the Eucalypti kind and the ground covered with luxuriant verdure where during the past season not a blade of grass was to be seen the bones of many bullocks which died on their way from the upper Hunter to Maitland rill still remain by the roadside a momento [ sic ] of the excessive drought . ’ |
| 27 | It contained not a trace of the spirit of openness , and its timeless tone will be familiar to all connoisseurs of Questions of Procedure for Ministers : |
| 28 | In the event , the ending of their two Dorset years came with dramatic suddenness , and brought not a narrowing of their lives , as they might have feared , but the beginning of a period marked by profound and creative friendship . |
| 29 | His report offered not a vestige of comfort . |
| 30 | If some of us despair at the seeming lack of real competition to them in Scotland , Hateley 's reaction permits not a whit of concern . |