Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Not everyone in the pro-life movement is behind him , as ANDREA SMITH discovered . |
2 | Not everyone in the Old City was an admirer of Sheikh Osman and there were quite a few Moslems as well as Copts who rejoiced in his discomfiture . |
3 | ‘ If I 'm not to be allowed Mozart , why not somebody with an appropriate gloom quotient like Mahler ? |
4 | It is fair to assume that not everything in the emerging resistance ideology pleased de Gaulle . |
5 | Pushkin eating cherries before a duel ; Lenin working day in day out on Iskra ; one sentence or a newspaper ( the point is of course , not one without the other ) ; Benjamin on the requirement to denature your work ‘ like ethyl alcohol ’ lest it be of use to the other side . |
6 | ‘ She was a happy , lively and adventurous girl — not one for a quiet life . ’ |
7 | The opposition leaders he met agreed that the question of reunification of Germany was not one for the German people alone , but was the rightful concern of their European neighbours . |
8 | I am not one for the bright lights . |
9 | He was not one for the romantic niceties , was Reg . |
10 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
11 | Not one in the whole house . |
12 | There are various devices on the market to help solve this problem , and the Basingstoke-based Award Design company have produced the Quad-FX , which not only mixes and balances effects in parallel ( in effect , each one goes in individually , not one behind the other ) , but will also make all your processors and stomp boxes compatible , and offers adjustment of the input and output levels so each unit lines up individually with your amp 's effects loop . |
13 | Get something with a good conductance , not something with a high resistance but something with a high conductance . |
14 | Is there not something of a permanent swell running in that vicinity ? |
15 | Should not we as a practical matter offer them the facilities of Burghfield and Dounreay to do something about the beryllium and other toxic compounds which are doubtless leaking from ill-maintained equipment ? |
16 | Caroline Fairley , wife of Lt-Commander The Honourable Charles Fairley , RN , had apparently lost control of a car that was not hers on a small country road in Oxfordshire and crashed into a tree . |
17 | ‘ Why ca n't someone on the Left ever do something like that ? ’ he remarked admiringly to Anthony Powell in 1941 , when he heard Waugh had joined a commando unit . |
18 | Is n't she like a little sister to him ? " |
19 | You did go to sleep did n't you for a long time ? |
20 | You , you , you have two do n't you for a sub base or just , you just have one do ya ? |
21 | ‘ Are n't you on the council-house waiting list then ? ’ |
22 | It 's , I , I mean these , these , the work with , with the original action network seems to , seems to come and go , you 've got a very large amount at one point and then nothing for sometime , it just depends er , I think which country they 're targeting and how much there is , because we had quite a lot on Malawi did n't we during the early part on last year not much on South Africa recently , as if they do n't quite know what to do , you know with the situation there it 's not quite er clarified . |
23 | They 'll restock wo n't they in the new year ? |
24 | You 've got to make it the beginning and the end see what comes up looked it up or anything , thought erm he 's showing her what the younger generation , you know , are erm treating each other is n't he in a romantic way erm there 's not much romantic practice in the older generation is there , a bit more affection based on intimate knowledge of each other that sort of thing . |
25 | ‘ Is n't he in the right place for it ? |
26 | Is n't he in the British Government or something ? ’ |
27 | It 's exciting though when you get deep snow is n't it for a little while , yes ? |
28 | Hm yes it 's better is n't it for the extra |
29 | it will be , it will be nice to get there sort of before it gets dark would n't it on the other side ? |
30 | Now , incorporated in these charges there 's a litter collection , so if litter is dumped on District Council ground , but they wo n't it at the Scottish Homes land , then the owner have to pay for this service . |