Example sentences of "not a [noun sg] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Unless you like being marooned in out-of-the-way places with a half-empty water bottle , it is not a subject a hitch-hiker should get drawn into .
2 Is not a school a collective in which individualised approaches are often sacrificed in the interests of the larger teaching team ?
3 The account also shows , in similar fashion , that you know that if you are sitting reading a philosophy book , you are not a brain a vat .
4 If we examine an inner state/behavioural model possibly opposed to that of shy and fearful , namely brave , we find that this is not a characteristic the Chewong associate with themselves .
5 He has a hang-up — not a dick the size of a pin , not even a fetish for sharing his bed with woolly four-legged animals .
6 It 's not a message the food industry is enthusiastic about .
7 And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact .
8 That 's not a hair the axeman says
9 Er not a card a present for Ruth .
10 ‘ T is not a gift the Countess possesses . ’
11 There 's not a lot the act can do in terms for example of prosecuting people who use deception , it may just be possible I 've been advised , but it 's extremely difficult from an evidential and other point of view to do that .
12 Not a nun a monk .
13 Not a tank a bowl a glass one , no not a glass one , plastic , supposed to be quite .
14 Yet it was n't a talent the school as an institution particularly nurtured .
15 It ai n't a palace the guy lives in , though it would suit some people .
16 There was n't a lot the captain could say without jeopardizing her standing so she just nodded once and switched off .
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