Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some only found out when their supplier told them that they could no longer buy tetra unless they could certify that it was going to be used in a ‘ non-dispersive manner ’ — ie not as a solvent even in a closed system . |
| 2 | The fact that he could get such good results by orthodox bowling also left one wondering why he occasionally indulged in a bouncer war , for it obviously did his reputation no good and was not as a rule very productive . |
| 3 | ‘ You could n't risk going to the theatre with me , not for a while anyway . |
| 4 | Oh , it 's not for a while anyway so you need n't worry . |
| 5 | Not for a while yet . |
| 6 | Not for a while yet . |
| 7 | It was the fancy of the good Doctor to bring together , from time to time , a considerable number of men whose lives were devoted to the advancement of science , and to entertain them , not for a day merely , but for several days , so that they might discuss together , without hurry or excitement , those matters of practical and theoretical science which were at the moment engaging the attention of the scientific world . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I would n't mind that , not for a time anyway . |
| 9 | Yeah that 's not for a lot though , that is n't . |
| 10 | Disoriented , she could not for an instant even locate her daughter . |
| 11 | The scope of this section is wide , since there are three reasons why a person may be dealing otherwise than as a consumer : first , because he is a businessman ( see s 12(1) ( a ) ) ; second , because the other party is not a businessman ( see s 12(1) ( b ) ) ; and third , because the goods are not of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption ( see s 12(1) ( c ) ) . |
| 12 | Not of a mind already steeped in convention and tradition . |
| 13 | ‘ Not unlike a journalist really , ’ Nick observed drily . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Whatever he thought he was doing here , it does n't look like an assignation , not with a woman anyway . |
| 16 | Not with an audience right , go on |
| 17 | Some people in Würzburg saw the raid as revenge for the pogrom against the Jews in November 1938 , and ‘ intellectual circles ’ reportedly took the view that Germany ‘ should stop the war , if one was not in a position really to prevent attacks on towns and industrial centres ’ . |
| 18 | Oh yeah , but er but I 'm not in a hurry anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ And we 're not in an institution yet . ’ |
| 20 | A favourable review did appear , but not until a year later . |
| 21 | and it 's not on a bike either |
| 22 | Not on a boat though . |
| 23 | Winter dormancy may be ending in February in the balmy south-west , not till a month later in the northern counties , and weeks after that around Aberdeen . |
| 24 | The comparison was naive in its failure to recognise the burden borne by working class wives , but Becker was rebelling primarily against the idea that the middle class woman should be ‘ kept ’ , if not by a husband then by a father , brother , or other male relative . |
| 25 | It was n't until a week later that I was able to ring John Reeves , vicar of St Luke 's , Cranham , who later said that he was intrigued from the word go by the strange activities we were involved with when he first contacted us . |