Example sentences of "and [adv] not a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had any ancestor of mine been minded to donate works of art to a national institution , he would have chosen a museum or art gallery and assuredly not a university . |
| 2 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 3 | The GP is the one who is very likely to know his patient well and if he finds him with chest pain of at least 15 or 30 minutes duration in the classic distribution , with no previous complaints , and obviously not a malingerer , that individual should have thrombolysis as rapidly as possible . |
| 4 | A sound of hideous pain and anger … and surely not a sound that could be made by anything human . |
| 5 | She was a wife and yet not a wife . |
| 6 | The manner in which the Prime Minister had handled the Westland issue within the Cabinet system , Mr Heseltine told the world 's press , was ‘ not a proper way to carry on government and ultimately not an approach for which I can share responsibility ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ To this day I have not played much Chinese music , and certainly not a concerto , and so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to explore that — a least to give Hsiao the encouragement to write one . ’ |
| 8 | This is a severe shock to your fish and certainly not a way to maintain equilibrium . |
| 9 | He finds it difficult , some times impossible , to make any change of direction in Government without trying to explain that it is not really a change at all and certainly not a change that Lady Thatcher would not personally have approved . |
| 10 | But to a Westerner Mr Tsurumaki is not a threatening presence , and certainly not a character from Black Rain as some of his detractors have hinted . |
| 11 | However , some risks may simply be unacceptable and therefore not a matter for compromise or optimisation . |