Example sentences of "not [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided there 's access to the plane and the fuselage is not crushed a few minutes should tell us all we want to know . |
| 2 | Since then , Ireland have not won a Five Nations match and their best result was a 21–21 draw with Wales at Cardiff in 1991 . |
| 3 | but I 'm most disgruntled the way Geoffrey 's getting on , he 's not had a single parents evening this year , you know normally you go back to school , you have one September , October which is always too soon |
| 4 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 5 | She had not walked a hundred metres before she tripped over a loose stone and went crashing over a steep overhang . |
| 6 | Why not set a few moments aside first thing in the morning and last thing at night ? |