Example sentences of "with not a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joining General Howard and Major Wood were three easterners , described by Monteith 's wife as , ‘ kings of finance but with not a speck of Indian sense , experience or knowledge ’ . |
| 2 | The waiting room at the Moscow station where Newby caught the Trans-Siberian was like waiting-rooms in all communist countries , the ‘ preserve of the lumpen proletariat , the hoi polloi ’ , with not a member of the administrative or managerial class to be seen . |
| 3 | In other parts of the Americas , settlers had been done away with , by what means nobody later could discover , for new arrivals would find the incomers ' stockade deserted , with not a sign of struggle . |
| 4 | And so it was that , just after five on Friday evening , a large black Bentley , with not a sign of a dent anywhere , drew up outside Lisa 's little terraced cottage and waited while she darted into Josey 's to collect her daughter , then into her own house to pick up their luggage . |
| 5 | A good prepared speech , McLeish thought , with not a word of truth in it . |
| 6 | I know that I laughed a lot , and that Will said it was a stupid play , with not a word of poetry in it . |
| 7 | And a Chartist candidate too , he 'd heard , if one could believe the insolence , bringing his Chartist banners and his hymns to Frizingley again ; with not a hope of winning , of course , since the men who would like to elect him had no votes to do it with . |
| 8 | IT is billed as a comedy but director Ian Forrest admits when he first read the play he thought it ‘ very bleak with not a lot of laughs . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It was so hot and humid out there , with not a breath of wind . |
| 10 | Hedges have been pulled out , stone walls pulled down , all for the sake of productivity and with not a whimper of opposition from successive governments . |
| 11 | His manner is both warm and friendly , with not a hint of the pretentiousness of some of his better known colleagues . |
| 12 | The Marriner version of Capriccio , very beautifully played with not a hint of sentimentality , earns a recommendation both for the quality of sound — the finest of any here — which is full , clear and atmospheric and — more surprisingly — for the coupling . |
| 13 | The slow deliberacy with which the wife commences her reply , with not a hint of offence in her reaction but rather a hint of care in selecting the right mode of reply , emphasizes her willingness to converse on the topic : So does her subsequent appropriation of a rhetorical device , the occupatio , a statement emphasized by the speaker feigning unwillingness or lack of freedom to express it : The monk too takes a moment 's pause before replying : again seeming to digest the implications of the wife 's words , or ( and ? ) to express , silently but with an eloquent action , astonishment at the wife 's ready invitation to him to continue to converse on this topic . |
| 14 | A prestige job , with not a suggestion of the wit and sinew and quirky humanity that informs the stuff they are turning out in Harry 's office . |
| 15 | Everything , from the stables to their occupants , is immaculate with not a wisp of straw out of place . |