Example sentences of "not [pron] [prep] the [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 | It is fair to assume that not everything in the emerging resistance ideology pleased de Gaulle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I am not one for the bright lights . |
| 7 | He was not one for the romantic niceties , was Reg . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not one in the whole house . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Are n't you on the council-house waiting list then ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | They 'll restock wo n't they in the new year ? |
| 16 | ‘ Is n't he in the right place for it ? |
| 17 | Is n't he in the British Government or something ? ’ |
| 18 | Hm yes it 's better is n't it for the extra |
| 19 | But was n't it for the best that his son be separated from Jennifer ? |
| 20 | it will be , it will be nice to get there sort of before it gets dark would n't it on the other side ? |
| 21 | I du n no it was about to shut was n't it at the same time and it it was like well it 's worth gon na get them . |
| 22 | Now , incorporated in these charges there 's a litter collection , so if litter is dumped on District Council ground , but they wo n't it at the Scottish Homes land , then the owner have to pay for this service . |
| 23 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |
| 24 | If you ca n't buy these little black olives in Soho , at least avoid the great brownish ones sold in most delicatessen stores ; they really have n't anything of the same character . |