Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for him a trip to the cinema , or a visit to the local zoo . |
| 2 | A copy is not of itself a will and therefore even if the copy is kicking around er that wo n't effect the matter . |
| 3 | Certainly my own personal experience tends to confirm Herzberg 's theory that monetary reward is not of itself an incentive , but poor or unfair reward is a major disincentive . |
| 4 | ‘ Leniency is not in itself a vice , ’ he added . |
| 5 | While new and innovative technology is exciting to work with and highly regarded , it is not in itself a guarantee of a profitable product . |
| 6 | While new and innovative technology is exciting to work with and highly regarded , it is not in itself a guarantee of a profitable product . |
| 7 | For , says Mr Lawson , a trade deficit is not in itself a problem if the world is happy to finance it . |
| 8 | ‘ At the beginning , you indicated that the absence of sex in your marriage was not in itself a problem . |
| 9 | Simply to grow old is not in itself a problem . |
| 10 | Though a literary portrayal of such rigidly defined domestic roles is not in itself a problem , an uncritical reading of these in an English classroom probably is . |
| 11 | This , of course , is not in itself a prescription of a conflict rule , merely a reference to general conflicts rules . |
| 12 | 4 ) , that ‘ a class is not in itself a community ’ , that ‘ the emergence of societal , or even communal action from a common class situation is by no means a universal phenomenon ’ , and that ‘ the extent to which ‘ communal action ’ and possible ‘ societal action ’ does emerge from the ‘ mass actions ’ of the members of a class is linked to general cultural conditions ' . |
| 13 | While the number of programmes undertaken is not in itself an indicator of quality or effectiveness , it may be assumed that undertaking relatively little , or virtually no planned systematic training , is certain to be ineffective . |
| 14 | To describe how the media cover disorder is not in itself an explanation of why they should adopt this approach . |
| 15 | Patients with the following characteristics were excluded : ( a ) women of childbearing age ; ( b ) patients with one or more of three established significant diabetic complications — namely , nephropathy with creatinine concentration >150 µmol/l ( proteinuria was not in itself an exclusion ) , ischaemia severe enough to have resulted in gangrene or amputation , and retinopathy worse than background in one eye . |
| 16 | The cap applies not to what an authority spends but to what the Government believe an authority is entitled to spend . |
| 17 | The fact that at any given moment only one producer is making a particular product is not by itself an impairment of the competitive process . |
| 18 | It was a bit of a mad thrash early on and I was n't into it a lot . |
| 19 | Erm proximity to areas of character is n't in itself a constraint to development . |