Example sentences of "not [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone in the pro-life movement is behind him , as ANDREA SMITH discovered . |
| 2 | Not everyone in the Old City was an admirer of Sheikh Osman and there were quite a few Moslems as well as Copts who rejoiced in his discomfiture . |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'm not to be allowed Mozart , why not somebody with an appropriate gloom quotient like Mahler ? |
| 4 | It is fair to assume that not everything in the emerging resistance ideology pleased de Gaulle . |
| 5 | Pushkin eating cherries before a duel ; Lenin working day in day out on Iskra ; one sentence or a newspaper ( the point is of course , not one without the other ) ; Benjamin on the requirement to denature your work ‘ like ethyl alcohol ’ lest it be of use to the other side . |
| 6 | now you see this is three inches to the mile and this is this is one to no that 's not one to a million , that 's ridiculous that is . |
| 7 | ‘ She was a happy , lively and adventurous girl — not one for a quiet life . ’ |
| 8 | The opposition leaders he met agreed that the question of reunification of Germany was not one for the German people alone , but was the rightful concern of their European neighbours . |
| 9 | I am not one for the bright lights . |
| 10 | He was not one for the romantic niceties , was Reg . |
| 11 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 12 | His instruments are exceptional in that they are made with an escapement , something with which not one in a hundred bothers himself . |
| 13 | Mary Crawford says many harsh words about the aspect of marriage for example ‘ there is not one in a hundred of either who is not taken in when they marry . |
| 14 | Not one in the whole house . |
| 15 | There are various devices on the market to help solve this problem , and the Basingstoke-based Award Design company have produced the Quad-FX , which not only mixes and balances effects in parallel ( in effect , each one goes in individually , not one behind the other ) , but will also make all your processors and stomp boxes compatible , and offers adjustment of the input and output levels so each unit lines up individually with your amp 's effects loop . |
| 16 | Get something with a good conductance , not something with a high resistance but something with a high conductance . |
| 17 | Is there not something of a permanent swell running in that vicinity ? |
| 18 | Should not we as a practical matter offer them the facilities of Burghfield and Dounreay to do something about the beryllium and other toxic compounds which are doubtless leaking from ill-maintained equipment ? |
| 19 | Caroline Fairley , wife of Lt-Commander The Honourable Charles Fairley , RN , had apparently lost control of a car that was not hers on a small country road in Oxfordshire and crashed into a tree . |
| 20 | ‘ Why ca n't someone on the Left ever do something like that ? ’ he remarked admiringly to Anthony Powell in 1941 , when he heard Waugh had joined a commando unit . |
| 21 | Is n't she like a little sister to him ? " |
| 22 | You did go to sleep did n't you for a long time ? |
| 23 | You , you , you have two do n't you for a sub base or just , you just have one do ya ? |
| 24 | ‘ Are n't you on the council-house waiting list then ? ’ |
| 25 | It 's , I , I mean these , these , the work with , with the original action network seems to , seems to come and go , you 've got a very large amount at one point and then nothing for sometime , it just depends er , I think which country they 're targeting and how much there is , because we had quite a lot on Malawi did n't we during the early part on last year not much on South Africa recently , as if they do n't quite know what to do , you know with the situation there it 's not quite er clarified . |
| 26 | Probably a British businessman with enough money to go romping off to America on some tax-deductible crusade — heavens you were n't anybody in the Sixties if you could n't to that twice a year . ’ |
| 27 | In the presentation you get people up front and they talk at ya do n't they for a few minutes , try and keep it interesting etcetera etcetera . |
| 28 | They 'll restock wo n't they in the new year ? |
| 29 | You 've got to make it the beginning and the end see what comes up looked it up or anything , thought erm he 's showing her what the younger generation , you know , are erm treating each other is n't he in a romantic way erm there 's not much romantic practice in the older generation is there , a bit more affection based on intimate knowledge of each other that sort of thing . |
| 30 | ‘ Is n't he in the right place for it ? |