Example sentences of "[conj] not a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A banker without money is like a doctor without pills ’ , commented American banker George Wood some 25 years ago , but a recent question for some banks recently was whether or not a judge in Chancery would dispense a ruling in their favour . |
| 2 | Used to test theories and interpretations relating to technology and subsistence , experiments can also test the very basic interpretations that are carried out during the course of an excavation : whether or not a hole in the ground functioned as a pit or a posthole , what a particular pit was used for , and so on . |
| 3 | ‘ And not a porter in sight . |
| 4 | For the latter , the term God is the main religious symbol for the Ground of Being while , for the former , God is the name we give to the mysterious power that pervades the universe and not a symbol in the Tillichian sense . |
| 5 | Hatchards in Piccadilly was crammed to bursting with authors last Wednesday for its Authors of the Year reception , the annual event the bookshop stages to enable authors to get together with each other , and not a publisher in sight . |
| 6 | Seventeen blissful years with nary a thought of green sunblock , purple reflective goggles or navy blue knockers and not a knot in my stomach , in anticipation of hurtling off a glacier with sweat running down my longjohns into my boot-bindings . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's me with thirty-five men to feed , and not a morsel in my larder tent ! ’ |
| 8 | Berlin has a string of first-class hotels , and not a lot in the middling class . |
| 9 | Given recent reductions in the rate of personal taxation , there is now little fiscal benefit to be obtainedthough in any case that should have been regarded as an incidental benefit and not a justification in itself for the establishment of such a company . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And not a sausage in the Sunday papers . |
| 12 | Clean , cheap , fast and not a firearm in the vicinity . ’ |
| 13 | Green fields , a coppice of trees , and not a roof in sight . |
| 14 | And not a scruple in his head about how he gets it , I 'd guess . ’ |
| 15 | You would n't see anybody walking round these big buildings and not a soul in sight . |
| 16 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 17 | Still looking at section 3(1) , I point out that ‘ any later assumption of a right to it ’ ( that is , a right to the property ) amounts to an appropriation of a right to it and that normally ‘ a right to it ’ means a right to the property and not a right in it . ’ |
| 18 | Alternatively , such an entry might mean a temporary absence , on Church business if not a foray in quest of preferment . |
| 19 | Leave some initial thing undone , and it will be a handicap later , if not a factor in eventual failure . |
| 20 | So it would seem safe to assume that life as a gay priest might be something of a tortured path — if not a contradiction in terms . |
| 21 | A randomised trial of children in South Australia who were prone to recurrent respiratory infections showed a reduction in respiratory events for those taking vitamin A , but not a reduction in total days of illness . |
| 22 | ‘ But not a chance in hell , old boy , of overturning it , ’ the refrain went . |
| 23 | There are various types of head plumage , from thatch via greaseball to natural skin tone , but not a hat in sight . |
| 24 | There were a dozen or so cars parked near the entrance , including the Marshal 's small van , but not a soul in sight . |
| 25 | Accepting that , the health authorities say that the damage in the present case was suffered by the plaintiff whilst still en ventre sa mère and therefore while not a person in the eyes of English law . |