Example sentences of "not [verb] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided there 's access to the plane and the fuselage is not crushed a few minutes should tell us all we want to know . |
| 2 | Only three of the thirty-six metropolitan districts do not include a former county borough within their boundaries . |
| 3 | Clearly , the hon. Gentleman was not listening a few moments ago when I quoted directly the Governor of the Bank of England saying that the conditions necessary to underpin a sustained recovery are now in place . |
| 4 | So , while there is no need to spoil the fun by trying to make an over-blown production out of your Christmas video , why not give a little time and thought to ways of showing the excitement leading up to the day itself . |
| 5 | ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table . |
| 6 | When she tried to explain that she would now have to live on five shillings a week , she could not restrain a few tears . |
| 7 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 8 | Why not set a few moments aside first thing in the morning and last thing at night ? |
| 9 | It is better to learn that the candidate can not put a few words together before he/she joins the company rather than after he/she is employed . |
| 10 | If he can not persuade a former employer to take the patient back , he may be able to find suitable alternative work through his knowledge of other companies . |
| 11 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |
| 12 | Mrs , for her part , did n't want a culture-less idiot for progeny but someone she could talk to as an adult : i.e. , she did n't want someone too like his father . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think a few crocuses in Hyde Park are going to make much difference , ’ Estabrook said . |
| 14 | I still do n't know a few ideas though |
| 15 | ‘ John goes for the foliage and I buy flowers ’ said Claudia , who likes bargains and does n't mind a few surprises . |
| 16 | Drying time : wearable within the hour after drying in a warm room — if you do n't mind a few minutes of clamminess at the obvious places where the material is thicker such as the pockets and waistband . |
| 17 | In fact , I do n't know an actor who was n't actually brought up in LA and who has n't spent a few nights on the beach . |
| 18 | So there 's no reason at all why you should n't have a few hours off . |
| 19 | But they would n't walk a few yards into the police station and tell anybody . |
| 20 | ‘ He can count his good luck that he did n't come a few minutes earlier , ’ Rune said crisply . |
| 21 | I mean , who has n't learned a few Sultans Of Swing licks ? |
| 22 | Of course , it might be said that a man in your position , if you 'll forgive the expression , is dieting either because his lover has threatened to leave him if he does n't shed a few pounds or because his lover has left him and he feels a need to , shall we say , freshen up . |
| 23 | Do n't revise a few topics to the exclusion of all others . |