Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] not [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your noble savage of the slums is nothing if not a realist , eh , Shelley ? ’ |
| 2 | Gooch who has Fletcher 's total support is nothing if not a fighter , however , and insisted last night : ‘ I 've no second thoughts about staying on as captain . ’ |
| 3 | So when the searcher eventually believes and becomes a Christian ( I am ignoring for the moment the other levels of understanding which are involved ) , he is nothing if not a man with a memory and a man of special gratitude : Whatever he becomes , wherever he goes , whatever he does , he should never be unaware of what once was , what might have been and what could well be again . |
| 4 | Macclesfield is nothing if not a silk town . |
| 5 | On location in Australia , he was nothing if not the life and soul of the party . |
| 6 | She is nothing if not an enthusiast and exhibits that special quality so necessary for a regular ski touring in Scotland ; a voracious appetite for sniffing out snow in sufficient quantity to make a continuous tour . |
| 7 | These you will recall are the ones that are characteristic of the disease in general in everyone and not the disease in the individual . |
| 8 | It 's something that not a lot of people take notice of , as I say , until they become a victim of it . |
| 9 | So , if you like the shape of something but not the size and colour , do not give up on it . |
| 10 | Wolman ( 1986 ) argues that what informed Reagan 's urban policy was the misplaced notion of a national and urban dichotomy , economies engaged in a zero-sum game ; the federal government could assist the one but not the other , since the costs of doing so would detract from national economic recovery . |
| 11 | You can live without the one but not the other . |
| 12 | Hence to ban one but not the other may not be as ridiculous as a simple interpretation of their model would suggest . |
| 13 | The degree of control of human populations required by the design , especially in the random allocation of subjects to experimental and to control groups , and subjecting one but not the other to the causal treatment in the field , is practically impossible . |