Example sentences of "not [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The career of Ibrahim Nanno represents a not untypical career pattern among constables in the second half of the nineteenth century .
2 And they 're not , I mean they 're pretty but they 're not that magnolia range in Marks is lovely .
3 So these channels sh show significant although not er sig al although not extensive sequence homology with the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor which enables you to place them in the same class of being er a ligand er binding channel .
4 But why sea fi why , why does sea fishing interest you and not coarse fishing sort of thing ?
5 ‘ Hospitals are not high priority places in themselves , but it is a good way of training and demonstrating what can be done , ’ says Chandler .
6 But this is not some chance paradox of history ; it arises in the psychological truth that in modern totalitarian states the purely internal and irrational conflicts of the psychoses can become external and quite real .
7 They will be able to build them wherever they like as long as they can buy the land , get planning permission and there is not another service station within 15 miles .
8 This is not another knocking piece on Hanley , who has been a great player for club and country .
9 In operation it reminded me strongly of Supercalc , having no immediate on-screen command line , while in concept is seems not unlike Report Manager with its ability to slice data through a model .
10 Flavia spent a not uncompanionable quarter hour with him talking mast ratio and tonnage .
11 There is probably not much survival advantage to be gained from discovering a grand unified theory or answering questions about determinism .
12 It 's not much use thinking of the voice without the body , even though each is the subject of a separate training class .
13 We found it altogether an extremely fascinating place to wander around , but not much revenue work for us apart from " showing the flag " .
14 Not these Tiller girls of course , although the most senior was performing in the forties .
15 There is not satisfactory drug treatment for irritable bowel syndrome , and a variety of diets have been recommended .
16 The government has another not dissimilar pressure point in the fact that the IRAs and the loyalist urban paramilitary organisations with members in detention or prison contribute to the upkeep of their families .
17 World maps were not uncommon room furnishings in royal palaces and ecclesiastical institutions in the middle ages ; one is listed in the mid-twelfth-century catalogue of the library of Lincoln Cathedral .
18 The Course also goes a long way to accommodate the not uncommon student experience of making a mistaken choice of degree subject .
19 Thus Sweezy 's and Rosdolsky 's criticism on the main point — does or does not unproductive consumption increase through time — can definitely be rejected .
20 Many of these survivors are not traditional tree orchards at all , but bush varieties on which mistletoe is incapable of gaining a foothold .
21 And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same …
22 We focused on the two newspapers owned by the same person , Rupert Murdoch , and which included the most rape reports — thirty-two in the Sun and seventy-two in the News of the World in which not one rape case in 1978 was covered by both newspapers .
23 It is the brutalizing effects of warfare , not any pacifist revulsion against them , that rings through the language in which international politics were discussed in Britain throughout the 1940s .
24 Folding doors are especially useful in small or narrow rooms , where there is just not enough floor space for comfortably opening a normal hinged door .
25 The situation today is that there is not enough training places for the people who want them .
26 Furthermore , with carbonic anhydrase blocked there is not enough HCO production in the cell to provide one HCO per unitary charge of the observed uptake current , whereas dissociation of water could provide enough OH - to account for the current ( Fig. 3 legend ) .
27 This is a very small steel device with not enough fence area to be of real use .
28 A senior Government source said last night : ‘ The report does show that there are problems with some banks not passing interest rates on quickly enough .
29 He accused the local council of allowing a needless tragedy , through a policy of not fitting smoke detectors to council houses .
30 The plural is required for this multi-talented worker : his ground-floor music-room included a chair , a not over-expensive hi-fi unit with a modest collection of cassette tapes and a synthesiser ; in the corner stands one of his guitars .
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