Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] not a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 2 | Well vegetables and potatoes and not a whole lot like , but I mean |
| 3 | Assuming they were stiffs and not a fresh consignment of medical mistakes . ’ |
| 4 | Barnabas Thomas , cousin of Gordon Thomas , who seems to have been resident engineer of the site , explained that the fall was due to the cleavage of the strata and not a general slip of the bench . |
| 5 | ( This means that the user sees ‘ primitive ’ spatial operations and not a whole spatial problem which may involve a sequence of primitive operations ) . |
| 6 | She was a being apart from the visitors belonging to everybody else , and there were admiring stares and not a few tut-tuts of disapproval from some of the senile-decays for her vivid make-up and briskly clacking high heels , all of which sent my morale sky-rocketing . |
| 7 | Open champion Faldo threaded together an immaculate last round of 67 , including four birdies and not a dropped shot , to finish joint second with three others on 281 . |
| 8 | He saw many seagulls but not a single bluebird , and could not be persuaded to approach the edge to have his picture taken . |
| 9 | Better pray for good economic numbers and not a triple dip recession here . |
| 10 | THE Democratic Unionist Party enjoyed a slight increase in its vote in the Derry City Council elections and not a slight decrease , as reported here on Saturday . |
| 11 | It was a useful review of services but not a profound analysis of problems in this field and it makes for rather bland reading . |