Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more than a mile in each direction not a tree , not a bush , scarcely a blade of grass , grew . |
| 2 | Field experiments with stuffed birds also demonstrate that different species of small birds all close in for the attack on a hated enemy — in this case not a predator but a cuckoo . |
| 3 | Erm unfortunately we can only have this room not the canteen this year . |
| 4 | It would be almost certain to give the strongest party not a majority of seats , but only a plurality , thus rendering it incapable of governing without the support or at least the consent of one other party . |
| 5 | Then we see that all our works are an evolution and operation of nature and our real self not the executive doer , but the free witness and Lord and unattached enjoyer of the action . |
| 6 | The building of the aircraft — this was the real thing not a toy — and the fabrication of many working parts to fine tolerances brought the students face to face with many new situations . |
| 7 | My own reading of the evidence is that the wide ranging family network ( Rosser and Harris 's ‘ extended family ’ ) is fast losing all functional significance and , that being so , the elementary family of conjugal pair and children is reverting to its original condition — once again it is a domestic group not a kinship group . |
| 8 | We knew Compaq would be around and it would be a technically healthy upgrade not a guddle . ’ |
| 9 | Does the occasional slap do a child no harm , or is physical punishment not the solution for a misbehaving youngster ? |
| 10 | By privileging medicine in the administration of the new service , separating hospitals from local authority responsibilities for prevention and after care , and leaving the power and independence of the teaching hospitals intact , Bevan created a medical service not a health service . |
| 11 | Primal Scream Not a name which would lead you to expect self-absorbed acoustic doodlings . |
| 12 | As the work began , one of those beautiful coincidences organised by God took place : the only public building on the Trendlewood estate ( indeed the only building not a house ) was the Old Farmhouse pub . |
| 13 | There are no ‘ alterations and additions ’ evident in the theatre score — signs of hurried completion , to be sure , and a number of telling omissions , but of systematic revision not a hint . |
| 14 | Managing director not an employee |
| 15 | On the first night not a soul could be induced to enter it . ’ |
| 16 | In an analysis of camera angles Rich demonstrated that despite its ostensible anti-porn content Not a Love Story in fact reproduced the voyeuristic position which lends pornography its appeal . |
| 17 | Constance wanted to return to the status quo before the illegitimate grandson of Roger II , Tancred , count of Lecce , became king in 1190 ( i.e. to the state under King William I and King William II , 1154 to 1189 ) , but her offers concerned only the continental kingdom not the island . |
| 18 | It is also acknowledged and agreed that I will perform my functions hereunder solely for the said parties and neither correspondence relating to the dispute nor any finding or award made by me as expert shall give rise to any right in favour of any person not a party hereto and any such correspondence and finding [ or award ] will be confidential to the said parties and will not be disclosed without my prior written consent , which I will not unreasonably withhold but which may be given subject to conditions . |
| 19 | Is open access not the result of political dogma rather than practical hard-nosed business analysis ? |
| 20 | Left again , after the brewery ( where they still have the Porter Tun Rooms , a tun being a big barrel not a weight , though not many people know that ) is Whitecross Street and the Barbican entrance , where many tourists go in and some actually find the theatre or gallery they 're supposed to be going to . |
| 21 | He entered , and for some time stood alone and unrecognised on the Turkey carpet , seeing among the well-to-do crowd not a soul he knew except Dr Heatherton , in the distance , talking with someone ; and Mrs Heatherton , followed by her bevy of obedient daughters , their skirts rustling prosperously wherever they went . |
| 22 | Almost at once the fog rolled away and in all that open bowl not a soul was to be seen . |
| 23 | You 're setting up and prin the setting that 's the expensive bit not the running off is n't it ? |
| 24 | The switch finally used must be the metal cased type not the glass envelope type . |
| 25 | In the middle of the recession , the economy needs new impetus not a tax cut . |
| 26 | Next day not a horse was to be seen . |
| 27 | They do n't have to hunt foxes to do that the motion , the main motion not the amendment suggests drag hunting er they could , there there my , I think it means proper drag hunting not one er to previously er l l laid out er objectives er they could race each other , they can have treasure hunts , er there are plenty of ways in which they could enjoy riding . |
| 28 | I envisage and this is what I believe to be his last film Not a Hope in Hell early in 1960 . |
| 29 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 30 | In an article published the same year , Kevin Sharpe questioned whether it was entirely accurate to label Laud as an Arminian , stressing that the archbishop saw as his main task not the propagation of a new theology but the prevention of divisive doctrinal debate . |