Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] not a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is after all not a lot that sets franchise outlets apart from other businesses . |
| 2 | It clearly implies a world order in which the prime virtue is obedience , not a world order that 's exactly to our twentieth century democratic taste , but then after all not a world order altogether to Milton 's taste , as we can remind ourselves by thinking of his plea for unlicensed printing the Areopagitica . |
| 3 | I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey . |
| 4 | No I mean it may be , you know you i it may be reasonably busy straight through but I would have thought even there you 're probably talking about four not a lot higher than that I would n't have thought . |
| 5 | Wednesday is a better day , and anyway Thursday 's erm he 's got a he 's got ta go at four actually go at four not an appointment , he 's got ta go at four . |