Example sentences of "[adj] not [art] [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 this not an intolerable interference with the freedom of action of any British Government , and is the Prime Minister aware that , in 12 of the past 18 years , successive Governments , Labour and Conservative , have spent more than 3 per cent .
5 This not an invariable pattern for monographs , but readers can usually expect that the central figure of a book will receive prominence at the expense of any other artists .
6 Is that not a political cop-out ?
7 Is that not a crushing answer to those who would maintain that Miller and myself live in the same flat ?
8 Is that not a humiliating prospect for the Edinburgh summit next year ?
9 Is that not a significant springboard for the future for British manufacturing industry ?
10 ‘ Is that not a horrible smell , no , Uncle Rory ? ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Is that not a pertinent question in the context of the millions of pounds worth of drugs on the streets throughout the United Kingdom ?
14 Is that not a clear case of fraud ?
15 This low incidence of visual handicap means , in effect , that not every local education authority in England and Wales will have a range of appropriate educational placements for the severely visually impaired pupil , and it may be necessary to look for a solution in regional terms , or perhaps attendance at a residential special school may be considered .
16 Is that not the real measure of the Secretary of State 's influence in the Cabinet ?
17 Is that not the only way to make it clear to the IRA that there can be no question of the United Kingdom 's abandoning the Province ?
18 Was that not the whole burden of his song , that nature needed in some way to be put to rights , and that it was man 's job to see it was put to rights ?
19 Is that not an interesting observation ?
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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
25 By 1840 not a single individual remained .
26 By a statesmanlike not an enthusiastic appeal Buxton may have calculated on maximising pressure for policy revision and politically isolating the West Indian interest , believing that they were already on the defensive morally and ideologically .
27 But since not every authority is legitimate not every authoritative directive is a reason for action .
28 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 ) .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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