Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 2 | I speak not as a lawyer but as a politician . |
| 3 | In a two page epilogue the author merely states that nowadays students begin not with a description of chemicals and reactions but by learning Schrödinger 's equation and the shapes of orbitals . |
| 4 | No I suppose not in a sense , but there again we should be because like you 've just explained , why should they give themselves a |
| 5 | Having asked the question , he offered no personal answer : ‘ Like jesting Pilate , I stay not for an answer : though the question awaits our collective resolution ’ . |
| 6 | The problems arise not from a shortage of water , but from its unequal distribution . |
| 7 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 8 | If the term subjection be used in its extreme sense I do not for a moment believe that any such solution exists . |
| 9 | His alternative is what he calls an ‘ appreciative ’ stance : ‘ These appreciative sentiments are easily summarized : we do not for a moment wish that we could rid ourselves of deviant phenomena . |
| 10 | Clive Barnes — later to become one of the ‘ Butchers of Broadway ’ , as critic for the New York Times wrote : ‘ Although One Over The Eight is described as a ‘ new revue ’ do not for a moment be fooled . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not for a moment doubt the right and duty of the media to comment on sentences and criticise judges . |
| 12 | Little owls will kill small mammals and small birds but they do not as a rule consume the flesh direct . |
| 13 | It is for the tribunal which decides the case to consider , not as law but as fact , whether in the whole circumstances the words of the statute do or do not as a matter of ordinary usage of the English language cover or apply to the facts which have been proved . |
| 14 | Benjamin 's modest but handsome little portrait seems to want to relay a message to us : I may not be blue-blooded , it says , but please do n't for a minute put me down as any kind of manual labourer — I belong to the established and rising ranks of the artisan middle-class . |
| 15 | I do n't , do n't for a minute think it 's from that hand , because you know the tingling , you 're s are you supposed to get tingling all time ? |
| 16 | That 's routine , and I do n't for a minute expect there to be any complications . |
| 17 | I no no I do n't for a start accept it . |
| 18 | There are ninety nine pupils , the total staff is one hundred , of course that does not for a moment mean that er , there is one member of staff attendant on each pupil at all times , and I do n't for a moment suggest that . |
| 19 | If you if you do n't with a hair dryer if you were n't blowing the air over it , what happens ? |
| 20 | He , he leaves his coat on see right and I do n't with a coat so he opens his window cos he 's hot , I 'm freezing . |
| 21 | I 'm an ordinary detective-inspector , and I do n't as a rule have direct dealings with the Home Office . |
| 22 | But I simply want to make the the point of planning principle that you do n't as a matter of approach walk away from constrained sites and say , ah well we do n't like that because there 's some constraint , we 'll go and we 'll reallocate an another piece of land somewhere else , and er that 'll come forward more easily . |
| 23 | Changes can be made in the look of any step not by a change in the tempo but in the time signature : for example , dancing a pas de basque to a 2/4 or 6/8 instead of the usual 3/4 . |
| 24 | He is supposed to have stated , when rebuked by his chaplain , ‘ When I swear , I swear not as a bishop but as a country gentleman and a baronet ’ . |
| 25 | This is not unreasonable , given that students have not as a rule experienced any other regime , but it can be misleading . |
| 26 | ‘ I have not for a moment suggested that children should be removed from the care of their parents . |
| 27 | ‘ We have n't as a rule the problems of the petrochemical industry , where some parts of the industry in the past put in huge new additional capacity and got gross over-production . |
| 28 | I went , erm I have n't for a while , I said but I do very occasionally cos I he goes |