Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [not/n't] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No reply and not even a hint of a smile . |
| 2 | I wish , dearest , that I was a poet and not just a silly twenty-three-year-old man about town … |
| 3 | Eating should be a pleasure and not merely a means of fuelling the body . |
| 4 | ‘ To touch is a pleasure but not necessarily a sin , ’ he added softly , seeing her confusion . |
| 5 | But Pete , I may be a bit of a shit mysel' and not exactly a paragon of virtues , and mebbee I 'm not what I made people think I was , but that does n't mean that it is n't true — ; the greed of the bourgeoisie , the oppression , the need to show it up for what it is . |
| 6 | At 14 a girl is no longer a child and not quite a woman . |
| 7 | Thus what we should be looking for is a system of screening that is capable of picking out expeditiously all cases that require testing and not just a sample . |
| 8 | If aortic valve replacement were classified as a need and not simply a benefit , then needs theories , if implemented , might lead to an increased total budget for such surgery to meet the needs of old people with aortic stenosis . |
| 9 | We recognise that the Church is a divinely constituted organism and not merely a human institution . |
| 10 | Now that the law embraced the principle of what lawyers called cessio bonorum — yielding up of goods — some thought imprisonment should be regarded as punishment and not just a way of preventing the debtor absconding . |
| 11 | And to ensure that we act as a group and not just a collection of separate offices . |
| 12 | ( 95 ) Outdoors you will find Wren create new green dimensions with sensitive landscaping that creates a community and not just a row of houses . |
| 13 | Building and running a stadium that would hold tens of thousands of spectators was an expensive business and not usually a profitable one . |
| 14 | No calculated glances , no abrupt addresses , no stratagems , just the easy politeness , he thought , of the worldly gentleman and not even a sly request for a hot stone or a late candle to his room . |
| 15 | Wesleyan colleges were established as theological training centres but Baptist and Congregational colleges , because of their origins as dissenting academies , still had a bias towards giving a general arts education and not just a theological training . |
| 16 | This is so even if the copyright ownership is transferred , that is , if the agreement is an assignment and not simply a licence . |
| 17 | But whereas they concluded from this that it was desirable to devise institutional checks on the will of the majority , Rousseau accepted the principle of majority decisions but tried to envisage conditions under which the majority would truly represent the community as a whole and not simply a collection of group or individual interests . |
| 18 | They have a lot of family problems , a lot of other personal social problems , and it 's very important to see really the person as a whole and not just a focus on one particular aspect of their problems . |
| 19 | As he is also chairman of the 100 Group of finance directors and regularly speaks at conferences and meetings , his timetable requires the skills of a juggler if not actually a magician ! |
| 20 | However , if imperialism is a consequence of capitalist expansionism and not simply a colonial system of government , then some form of economic neo-imperialism could persist after independence for ex-colonies ( see Abel and Lewis , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | She did not look so gaunt and old , and her lips were red and full , and curved , like a smile but not quite a smile . |
| 22 | By mid-1941 , therefore , it was the prevailing view within the Board of Education that the milk-in-schools scheme was ‘ an essential part of our war food policy and not mainly a scheme to increase milk drinking and use up a surplus of liquid milk ’ ; by that time , for example , the Ministry of Food was assuming , for rationing calculation purposes , that each child was receiving five-sixths of a pint of milk per day . |
| 23 | This impotence is inherent in the Keynesian approach to policy and not merely a feature of a specific version of that approach ; for by its very nature it makes government influences on aggregate demand predictable in that it links government policy changes to the current or past state of the economy . |
| 24 | Either way , astronomers are regarding it as a fascinating astronomical object and not just a recordbreaker . |
| 25 | ‘ It was a feeling of being suspended — it was not a negative feeling and not even a loss to be mourned , but I just could not see a way ahead . |
| 26 | Will you allow people to address the panel as a a comment and not just a question yes or no if you say no fine we all understand and we have to er formulate our our ideas as a question and we 'll carry on that case is quite simple and straight forward like that . |
| 27 | Blackwall was only a miner but not likely a fool — few miners are . |
| 28 | He is in other words a model student though not necessarily a good one . |
| 29 | Both Mussolini and Hitler saw population policy as not only a means of increasing the population but also as a means of social control , using both repressive and persuasive measures . |
| 30 | They discussed the rudiments of the Charleston , that still over-sophisticated exercise in dancing , a world apart from the slow foxtrot and not yet a familiar of Irish Hunt Balls . |