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

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1 Is this not a strange time to close offices which provide assistance for so many unemployed people ?
2 It will be demonstrated later that the correlation between the true area and the projected area visible to the camera is good enough to make this not a prime consideration .
3 Is this not a quick election fix rather than a programme of long-term investment to improve our competitiveness ?
4 Is that not a political cop-out ?
5 Is that not a crushing answer to those who would maintain that Miller and myself live in the same flat ?
6 Is that not a humiliating prospect for the Edinburgh summit next year ?
7 Is that not a significant springboard for the future for British manufacturing industry ?
8 ‘ Is that not a horrible smell , no , Uncle Rory ? ’
9 For to say that entities of a certain sort do not exist is to say , in effect , that not a single entity in the world has the indicated property , or properties ; or , expressed differently , that the relevant concept can not be correctly applied to anything .
10 But she could not see it as such and indeed it could be said , on her behalf , that not a single object had been purchased or positioned for its decorative value .
11 Is that not a pertinent question in the context of the millions of pounds worth of drugs on the streets throughout the United Kingdom ?
12 Is that not a clear case of fraud ?
13 Homelessness to me is a lack in any particular individual 's case of whatever their community considers to be a home , i.e. it is an economic not a psychological state .
14 It was a real not a conjectural cause ; for it was known to exist from observations of swinging pendulums and falling stones down here on earth .
15 In fact when we say a piece of language is rhythmic we mean that we as readers have a rhythmic response to it — rhythm is a perceptual not a physical fact .
16 And all in all not a bad place for a romantic tête à tête , nowhere more so than at the Las Palmeras Apartments where , among the seclusion of the palm trees , you can relax in maximum tanning mode with the partner of your dreams .
17 She is interested in accents and she 'll listen to it and think , Ah that 's someone who comes from Liverpool , er not a very not a very scouse accent but because they say
18 By 1840 not a single individual remained .
19 These policies had little effect on the Italian birth rate in the period 1930-1932 , and between 1933 and 1937 not a single department showed a rise in fertility ( Glass ) .
20 And it has to be said that most of us are likely to have some kind of experience when our ego is deflated ; and that can often have a beneficial not a negative effect .
21 So the L & NWR were building coaches in the same area as Joseph Wright & Sons , at best not a satisfactory arrangement , and a major factor in the decision to transfer this activity to Wolverton .
22 Finally , John repeated that he wanted a positive not a negative Council .
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