Example sentences of "not [pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not one that bleeding hearts would approve of , no doubt , but we , as the committee , were absolutely within our rights to sell off what we considered to be unnecessary stocks of wine in order to allocate the money to members ’ more urgent needs . ’ |
| 2 | As such , it was not something that many people were particularly upset about . |
| 3 | The prospect of spending eight months aboard a 67-foot yacht racing the wrong way round the world against the prevailing winds is not something that most seasickness sufferers would relish . |
| 4 | Assimilation of place is only noticeable in this regressive assimilation of alveolar consonants ; it is not something that foreign learners need to learn to do . |
| 5 | Wire fences are not something that wild elephants encounter every day , so this behaviour could hardly have been learned , still less inherited . |