Example sentences of "[not/n't] the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 1990 reforms came into operation which addressed the first but not the second elements of concern outlined above . |
| 2 | In general , however , it was not the second part of Bacon 's Inductive Method that found favour . |
| 3 | If it does not the second limb of s31 will be satisfied . |
| 4 | Ballesteros is not the first person to be challenged by the complexities of life . |
| 5 | You 're not the first person to be impressed by her voice . |
| 6 | It 's not the first event of its kind , but itis the largest |
| 7 | This is , of course , not the first year in which budgetary cuts have had to be made . |
| 8 | A new CDU-FDP combination had been considered but the FDP seemed fickle and unreliable : October 1966 was not the first occasion of course on which they had left the Cabinet . |
| 9 | Clozapine is not the first treatment for schizophrenia to be hailed as a significant advance , nor is it the first to raise ethical dilemmas . |
| 10 | The alternative voting system at least possesses the virtue of requiring that if such policies are to be persisted in , the doctrine in which they are grounded must have been at least minimally acceptable to , if not the first choice of , a majority of voters . |
| 11 | Probably not the first choice of the new Labour arts minister . |
| 12 | It 's not the first brush with real crime for ITV 's Sun Hill sleuth . |
| 13 | This was not the first attack of this kind ; there had been another three-pronged assault the previous year in the Fao peninsula . |
| 14 | Stephen Duck , however , is not the first instance of a labouring class poet in the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | It was obvious at the time that this was not the first operation of its kind . |
| 16 | I had not the first notion of mechanics , but you with your capable hands worked on the machine until , after running with it , pushing it along , we were able to make the engine tick over again . |
| 17 | Starters : Not the first course of your evening meal , but an overused term for the various proprietary seeding compounds — which may contain bacteria , or enzymes ; and sometimes the chlorine/chloramine/and other nasties removing water conditioners . |
| 18 | Although this was not the first case in which this view had been taken , it was the first in which an appellate court had squarely addressed the point . |
| 19 | It was not the first temple on the site . |
| 20 | THIS IS NOT the first sentence of my column . |
| 21 | This is not the first time in his career that Mr Bond , condemned for unconventional and perhaps sometimes dubious business tactics , has teetered on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 22 | And it 's not the first time by any means . |
| 23 | Thus the main business of futures exchanges outside the US , which were not the first movers into the global markets , is in contracts for local bonds and share indexes . |
| 24 | Karajan is not the first conductor to be affected by this . |
| 25 | To begin with , this was not the first use of the curious rendering . |
| 26 | nice fresh sample of wee , not the first wee of the morning , |
| 27 | This is not the first arrest in Florida of a man stalking Steffi . |
| 28 | In this welcoming speech Mr M A Prouten , executive chairman of Brooke Marine , recalled that Searcher was not the first ship to be built at his yard for the Customs Department . |
| 29 | Schools which are already doing very well are probably not the first priority for Compact . |
| 30 | Schools which are already doing very well are probably not the first priority for Compact . |