Example sentences of "not [indef pn] [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |