Example sentences of "not [conj] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that many real teachers have heard of the APU . |
| 2 | Not that many real teachers have heard of the APU . |
| 3 | Not that that little affair had anything to do with the riots on Brixton 's Front Line . |
| 4 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 5 | Not that this entire experience had not thrown him completely out of his stride ! |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal held that the unlawful act would only be regarded as ‘ dangerous ’ if it was likely to cause physical harm , not if mere emotional shock ( unaccompanied by physical harm ) was foreseeable . |
| 7 | ‘ Not if some big flatfoot is just going to barge in on her and say I 'm shouting it all over town I was with her last night . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Not if this wretched drizzle continues and we have to stay indoors , ’ he said . |
| 9 | And it 's not until that economic climate changes that people are l are able to relate to what the politicians say . |
| 10 | If the package name is accepted then LIFESPAN will display all modules in the selected package including their current issue numbers , whether or not the modules are approved , whether the module is online or not and any associated errors . |
| 11 | The question surely is whether land is open country , not whether that open country is bisected by a boundary , a good hedge or a good line of trees , which would undoubtedly be a suitable greenbelt boundary . |
| 12 | Suddenly , black movies became Malcolm X-rated and Richard Roundtree appeared , not as some hat-tipping descendant of Uncle Remus , but as Shaft , a dark avenger , unstoppable , sex-sharp , streetwise and as cool as a Harlem icebox in December . |
| 13 | They will ‘ see ’ the woman who is crying as herself and not as some emotional ghost from the past . |
| 14 | Bruce Alexander thus plays the lycanthropic Ferdinand not as some howling lunatic but as a haunted , guilt-ridden creature . |
| 15 | Twenty years of working at home later , was n't that same celebrated swinger someone whose body language suggested he was surrounded by concern for his surroundings ? |
| 16 | No , I do n't think I 'd go for a house that erm I would n't but those big houses of course it would have alarms would n't it ? |