Example sentences of "[vb -s] not a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small use threatening a man with harm to someone who matters not a rap to him . |
| 2 | This international co-operation between clearinghouses does not preclude international co-operation on an individual library basis , nor does it mean that the Australian , UK and USA clearinghouses will not provide a service to individual libraries in another country which has or has not a clearinghouse of its own . |
| 3 | It is a wild and mischievous allegation , for which the hon. Lady has not a shadow of evidence . |
| 4 | Having inundated us with Mozart last season , it has not a note of Rossini this summer . |
| 5 | Grand 's choice of guitars betrays not an ounce of the usual blues axe snobbery … |
| 6 | If some of us despair at the seeming lack of real competition to them in Scotland , Hateley 's reaction permits not a whit of concern . |
| 7 | The name " library " has lost its etymologic meaning and means not a collection of books , but the central agency for disseminating information , innocent recreation , or , best of all , inspiration among people . |
| 8 | This then becomes not a description of the object itself , but of the critical appreciation or dislike that the work gives rise to . |
| 9 | Second , the patient 's right to self-determination , in other words , becomes not a matter of legal principle , but rather a consequence of the degree of paternalism exercised by the doctor , supported by societal attitudes which reinforce such paternalism . |
| 10 | What intrigues me about that earlier period , especially its drama , is a mode of transgression which finds expression through the inversion and perversion of just those pre-existing categories and structures which its humanist counterpart seeks to transcend , to be liberated from ; a mode of transgression which seeks not an escape from existing structures but rather a subversive reinscription within them , and in the process their dislocation or displacement . |
| 11 | Does not a Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food report show that production of early potatoes fell considerably , and that meant an increase in price ? |
| 12 | Finally , though , because his style resembles not a force of nature so much as a medium of measurement or response ( response to pressure , atmospheric pressure ) , I settle on something less personal : Barometer Barnes . |
| 13 | For those who wish to weaken the hold that transmission teaching has within the educational system , this more sociological approach to understanding the conditions of teaching quality suggests not a tightening-up of selection procedures , an improvement of training , and an emphasis in training and staff deployment on the strengthening of subject expertise , but policies such as the following : |
| 14 | Edward Topsel , the English naturalist , writing in 1658 stipulated that , to cure blindness , or pains in the eye : ‘ Take the head of a black Cat , which hath not a spot of another colour in it , and burn it to powder in an earthen pot leaded or glazed within , then take this powder and through a quill blow it thrice a day into the eye ’ — the italics were not used in the original , but are to draw attention to the crucial quality of the black cat who is about to lose his head . |