Example sentences of "not [verb] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people prefer to think of blue or golden light ; others may not think of a colour at all but just feel they are centred within a sphere . |
| 2 | After citing passages from Amand 's case Sir John Donaldson M.R. , with whose judgment Kerr and Lloyd L.JJ. agreed , observed , at p. 977 , that he could not think of a case in which the order appealed from arose more clearly in a criminal cause or matter . |
| 3 | Those who make a mistake , or can not think of a word beginning with their letter , drop out . |
| 4 | Back at his hotel , packing for his return to London , John wondered how to fit this large acquisition into his luggage , could not think of a way , decided that he did not want a souvenir of the trip anyway because of his gloom about the impending ballet , so tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket . |
| 5 | I can not think of a recipe for diminution of standards that is more likely to succeed . |
| 6 | Until she met Rainald she could not think of a future , with or without fitzAlan . |
| 7 | We are starting with the press that the need for a National Airport 's policy I can not think of a number , a major or even a concentrate all these airfields and resources in one region . |
| 8 | For twenty minutes and more I could not think of a thing to write . |
| 9 | At first he sat looking at his feet , and she could not think of a thing to say . |
| 10 | However , I have argued that Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge is based on a social conception of human being ; he is extremely careful not to reduce thought to individual minds and not to conceive of a group ‘ mind ’ based on the prior conception of individual mind ( Mannheim 1936 : 2 , 44 ) . |
| 11 | But then the watching gods take a hand ; and one of them says that the great Roman god might not approve of a settlement in Africa , of a mingling of peoples there , of treaties of union between Africans and Romans . |
| 12 | As mentioned before , the fact that one may not approve of a practice can not be a reason for wishing to have it outlawed . |
| 13 | He also saw that if the parties did not approve of a rule laid down by a court — a ‘ certain rule ’ — they could choose to vary it by contract . |
| 14 | However , at a given landing site the sequence of layers in one core does not correspond to that in a neighbouring core , and therefore the subsurface material does not consist of a number of extensive thin sheets . |
| 15 | Free indexing languages do not consist of a list of terms distinct from those used to describe concepts in a subject area . |
| 16 | What we need is a good employment practice , not shifting of a goal post at every turn . |
| 17 | According to Irenaeus , the Ebionites insist that Jesus was man , not God , and was not born of a virgin . |
| 18 | So it could in theory , but I can not conceive of a case where a doctor , faced with the refusal of a mentally competent 16-year-old to having an abortion , would terminate the pregnancy merely upon the consent of the girl 's parents . |
| 19 | I do n't know about you , but I can not conceive of a home without a fire . |
| 20 | Since he can not conceive of a situation where the financial accounts would be determined by the budgetary information , he suggests that users ' needs can be developed in financial accounting terms and then , if budgetary information is required , it should be made consistent with the financial accounts . |
| 21 | Many can not conceive of a dinner devoid of animal flesh , and steak , turkey , goose , or roast beef remains the orthodox stuff of celebration . |
| 22 | He insisted on them taking supper with him , and would not hear of a refusal . |
| 23 | More nagging is the suspicion that Wallenberg did not die of a heart attack at the age of 35 , but was murdered or tortured to death . |
| 24 | As the Tabor primary schoolchildren were making their way to their classes , it was hard not to think of a scene from 1950s Britain , the children all in their uniforms and carrying satchels . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're not talking of a prisoner simply making a run for it . |
| 26 | When some sociologists talk of the ‘ socialization function of the family ’ , therefore , they are not talking of a family deliberately and consciously performing a function assigned to it from outside by ‘ society ’ , but rather of a more subtle process that arises out of the facts of being married , of sharing a residence over a long period of time , and of parenthood . |
| 27 | We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past . |
| 28 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 29 | If he placed no reliance at all upon it , he can not complain of a misrepresentation . |
| 30 | One does not say of a cornflower that it looks blue — unless , of course , one wants to exhibit one 's sophistication in the matter of colours being ‘ secondary qualities ’ . |