Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [not/n't] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hope sprang up in her , because if Caspar could make the Robemaker believe that he was merely foolish and not an intruder , they might have a chance . |
| 2 | The plucky little hedgehog kept at it until the dog dish was empty and not a scrap remained . |
| 3 | Using Circle K as an example he complained that since the lighting had been removed the corner was dull , dark and dangerous and not a place to walk late at night . |
| 4 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 5 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 6 | But the social setting was now precisely that and not a star feature in its own right . |
| 7 | In a service there should be a mix of these and not a concentration on one metre or one key , for example . |
| 8 | Here , a constant and not a chance model of anarchic relations via exchange is obligatory … the law of value is merely the law of equilibrium of an anarchic commodity system … |
| 9 | But yeah , it 's alright , it 's okay but not a lot 's going on , really , I have n't been in any activities for ages . |
| 10 | This , for example , is why he believed Hobbes ( and himself ) to be an authoritarian but not an absolutist . |
| 11 | We settled on a classic rock climb from the Etançons valley — the West-South-West Ridge of the Pic Nord des Cavales : a mouthful of a name to be sure and not a route well known outside the area , but Collomb assures of its worth : |
| 12 | OK so the occasional ( ! ) taunt may be made at a footy game but it IS a football match after all and not a place for the fainthearted . |
| 13 | However , this seepage was slight and not a problem . |
| 14 | Indeed , your latest victim seems to have been a veritable bundle of surprises — not a maidservant but a duchess , not dead but alive — and , to top all , affianced to an eleven-year-old and not a virgin ! ’ |
| 15 | The roar was held by some to be that of the dispossessed and not a train at all . |
| 16 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |
| 17 | Sometimes , however , an alternative , less heroic but equally anti-correctionalist picture was painted : working-class crime was in reality mostly petty , irrelevant and not a problem , but had been made to appear so by the mass media blowing it up , misrepresenting it and creating crime-scares . |
| 18 | I told you I was learning the language — she 's really very sweet and not a stitch on but as I said no need to worry , angel , riddled with diseases I 'm sure , apart from anything else , I mean . |
| 19 | Put it in a train in a comfortable seat with two hours of peace and quiet and not a contraflow within cursing distance , and let its brakes off . |
| 20 | She was a Christian but not a Church one . |