Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Registration is not a safeguard against damage and the Post Office will only pay compensation if the contents were adequately packed . |
| 2 | Sometimes Bernard would work all through the night and there was not a day in winter even in snowy , freezing weather when they would n't turn up and bring sandwiches and bottles to keep us all going . ’ |
| 3 | Until the end of the last century , knitting was not a pastime in Dent but a livelihood . |
| 4 | But before she could finish , he retorted : ‘ He 's not a member of Equity . ’ |
| 5 | Now once the benefits were approved er by the Trust Deed and er bearing in mind that the Chairman at that meeting informed the Trustee and I quote in determining the structure of the scheme the company was prepared to enter into consultation with the Trade Unions and Trustees , but this was a consultative process only and not a subject for negotiation ; and their company then went on to seek the er er the transfer of the present contributing members er er and a hundred of the members agreed er to transfer into that new scheme . |
| 6 | Rejected by Tawney ( 1912 ) , this has now been fully vindicated by Dr Kerridge , who has shown that the security conferred on the copyholder by the law was not inferior to that enjoyed by the freeholder , and that it was not a subject for dispute in the courts during the sixteenth century ‘ for the simple reason that the question had been settled long before ’ . |
| 7 | The colleges have always taken the view that accreditation was not a prerequisite for appointment ; a recent survey revealed that approximately one third of physicians were not accredited at the time of their appointment . |
| 8 | However , since this is not a prerequisite for acceptance on the Minor Project , some schools did not form one , and several of those which were formed appear to have lapsed following the completion of the school 's spending phase . |
| 9 | A previous knowledge of computing may be of some advantage initially but is not a prerequisite for entry to the course . |
| 10 | The interior of the country is an inhospitable desert of mountains and moors and innumerable lochs : not a desert of desolation but of beautiful and dramatic landscapes . |
| 11 | And it 's not a night for trouble . ’ |
| 12 | Not a night of vintage claret . |
| 13 | His report offered not a vestige of comfort . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Well folks this was not a classic in fact the first 40 minutes of the first half was utterly crap . |
| 16 | But the sale was not a precondition of clearance . |
| 17 | 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 : |
| 18 | You are not a child of Star Zoo . |
| 19 | This would suggest that curiosity is not a by-product of intelligence , as we might expect , but rather an essential property of life . |
| 20 | Such irony is not a by-product of war . |
| 21 | Despite the scattered details , this was not a description of topography or social structure , but a collection of legal and fiscal rights . |
| 22 | A strong association , however , is not a proof of causation . |
| 23 | It 's not a base of knowledge but a subset that can be easily manipulated . |
| 24 | Examples of this category are black — in blackbird , blue in blue-tit , and red in red wine ( it must not be thought that red here is merely a colour term : a red wine is a type of wine , whereas a red dress is not a type of dress ) . |
| 25 | Whole group drama , however , is not a type of drama , but an organisational strategy ; as with any strategy it can be well used or misused . |
| 26 | It promises , not a bedrock to philosophy and lifestyle , but a feast of weird explanations , a mental trip . |
| 27 | It had been a cold evening , heavily overcast , not a splink of moonlight to pierce the darkness of his last few miles . |
| 28 | Y you 'll see amongst the plans that you 've , you 've got before you , plan number seven actually , should n't really be with these papers because it 's not a proposal for approval , but it does show the extent of the work that 's been done and the key element there is that there are these speed cushions I mentioned earlier on as a possible way forward there , which has been in consultation . |
| 29 | She had expected to get good advice from Lovat , not a proposal of marriage . |
| 30 | But acknowledgement of increasing complication and uncertainty is not a retreat from objectivity ; doubt or acceptance of a supposed historical fact or law of nature likewise depends on accumulation of evidence which can never be complete . |