Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " 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 | If a is not a member of A we write unc and say " a does not belong to A " . |
| 5 | Each member country agrees that any tariff concession or trade advantage granted to one country , whether or not a member of GATT , shall be granted to all member countries . |
| 6 | Britain , along with Denmark and Norway , as well as Ireland ( which was not a member of EFTA ) , had lodged applications to join the EEC , and their initial negotiations with the Six seemed to be progressing satisfactorily . |
| 7 | But before she could finish , he retorted : ‘ He 's not a member of Equity . ’ |
| 8 | David Howell was not a member of Mr Heath 's Cabinet but he was close to him . |
| 9 | While in the library , the young user is an individual — not a member of Miss Jones 's class , or one of the Polish community , or ‘ a typical teenager ’ , or so-and-so 's daughter or son . |
| 10 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 11 | Although we 're working er all the time to keep security as tight as we can at the John Radcliffe , er the scheme is going to give us the ability to challenge members of staff , legitimate members of staff , as we currently do , er and they will then have to provide , produce the card , er so we can then assess whether they are or are not a member of staff . |
| 12 | On May 30 President Mitterrand of France said in Lille at the conclusion of a Franco-German summit [ see p. 38198 ] that France , which was not a member of NATO 's integrated military command , had " reservations " about the political strategy which lay behind the creation of the multinational corps . |
| 13 | The contract was eventually granted to a company from Australia , which , although a member of COCOM , was not a member of NATO . |
| 14 | Oman is not a member of OPEC but is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council ( GCC ) and is thus sensitive to the interests of other Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether I 've spoken out of place because I 'm not a member of Salisbury park but on the assumption that erm that we would have to share in the |
| 16 | The conventional view that this was not a subject for girls was challenged by Sophie Bryant 's success , notably in sending a succession of North Londoners to study mathematics at Girton . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | She made him up a bed on the high white divan in her living-room — not a heap of sleeping-bags and blankets but a real bed , with laundered sheets and pillows in emerald green cotton cases . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , high population densities are certainly not a prerequisite for inequalities and a class structure to arise . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A previous knowledge of computing may be of some advantage initially but is not a prerequisite for entry to the course . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And it 's not a night for trouble . ’ |
| 26 | Not a night of vintage claret . |
| 27 | His report offered not a vestige of comfort . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | Well folks this was not a classic in fact the first 40 minutes of the first half was utterly crap . |
| 30 | But the sale was not a precondition of clearance . |