Example sentences of "not [num] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections were held to ( i ) the 430-seat People 's Great Hural , hitherto the legislative body but now in effect an " upper house " with reduced powers ; ( ii ) all 53 seats in the Little Hural , the newly created standing legislature ( not one-quarter of the seats as first laid down — see p. 37454 ) ; and ( iii ) municipal and provisional People 's Hurals . |
| 2 | Not only were viewers outspoken in their complaints but the athletics writers , who rely on TV coverage , were quick to point out that the London Marathon is not one of the BBC 's happiest events . |
| 3 | Stansill was not one of the extroverts of the underground , but what he did bring was method , in an environment with hardly any , and a philosophical view about the alternative which the underground could offer . |
| 4 | It all sounds a bit rich to me , and although Belshazzar swallowed it , Handel and his librettist Charles Jennens clearly took the view that it was not one of the moments from the Belshazzar story that should be dwelt upon or scrutinised to any serious degree . |
| 5 | Not one of the faces showed any sympathy towards him ; all were determined that he should hang . |
| 6 | Lack of space was not one of the problems that affected Deer Forest . |
| 7 | Is not one of the problems of Russia in its current economic difficulties that the country might turn in on itself and revert to its usual historic xenophobic tendencies ? |
| 8 | Roger was prepared to co-operate with the subsequent regime of Simon of Montfort — in December 1264 he helped to arrange a temporary settlement with the Marcher barons — but he was not one of the bishops suspended from office after the battle of Evesham . |
| 9 | Not one of the yahoos from around here . |
| 10 | The boy who brought him food in the morning was a young fellow he had never seen before , and not one of the men-at-arms , but by the look of him one who belonged behind Isambard 's chair in his great hall , or about his wardrobe to help him to dress . |
| 11 | He had left home so hurriedly as to have packed not one of the poetry volumes that he was very seldom without . |
| 12 | I suppose you could , but it 's not one of the things I had listed . |
| 13 | Will my right hon. Friend take this opportunity to inform the House that that is certainly not one of the options for local government reform that he is considering ? |
| 14 | And if it 's not one of the ones you 've remembered you think well it 's probably a C. |
| 15 | The letter which concluded the day for Viola Machin was not one of the ones that pleased her most . |
| 16 | is not one of the emotions . |
| 17 | His quick eye also registered with some interest that not one of the ladies present , as far as he could judge , belonged to his mother 's circle . |
| 18 | Finally , although this is not one of the matters which we have to decide , an appeal lies to the Court of Appeal from a judgment or order of the High Court pursuant to section 16(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 19 | Now in your paragraph six point three you say It is not one of the functions of the York greenbelt to protect Skelton . |
| 20 | This is not one of the chronicler 's purple passages , but seems to be a sober report of the negotiations , and it matters a great deal . |
| 21 | Not one of the organizers had thought fit to provide a carafe of wine . |
| 22 | Once or twice Barbara Coleman sought corroboration of a point from Rain or Cobalt but otherwise not one of the onlookers dared to speak . |
| 23 | This time it is not one of the scandal sheets , but the glossy , much-respected New Yorker . |
| 24 | I should , at this point , declare my interest as being associated with Horizon , but it is through this link that I know that not one of the producers involved with BBC productions was consulted in any way during the writing of the book . |
| 25 | He could tell from the sound that it was an army Lynx , not one of the SAS Augustas . |
| 26 | Yet she was not one of the women tipped to reach the finals here . |
| 27 | This was not one of the women he had peeped at on other occasions . |
| 28 | He answered her in his usual calm manner , which was easy for him , thought Sally-Anne , for was he not one of the lords of the world and a man to boot ? |
| 29 | The sarcophagus , they told me , is not one of the Museum 's more interesting possessions , and has n't been on display since 1904 . |
| 30 | Their problem seems to be not one of the inability to choose goals or to form strategies for achieving them , but an incorrigible propensity to choose the wrong ones and an awesome efficiency in achieving them unless adults intervene . |