Example sentences of "not a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes Bernard would work all through the night and there was not a day in winter even in snowy , freezing weather when they would n't turn up and bring sandwiches and bottles to keep us all going . ’ |
| 2 | Until the end of the last century , knitting was not a pastime in Dent but a livelihood . |
| 3 | Well folks this was not a classic in fact the first 40 minutes of the first half was utterly crap . |
| 4 | He said this was not a change in policy , because peacekeepers had a duty to see that no harm came to civilians . |
| 5 | ‘ Not a word in front of John , ’ warned Dotty . |
| 6 | Hatchards in Piccadilly was crammed to bursting with authors last Wednesday for its Authors of the Year reception , the annual event the bookshop stages to enable authors to get together with each other , and not a publisher in sight . |
| 7 | ‘ A banker without money is like a doctor without pills ’ , commented American banker George Wood some 25 years ago , but a recent question for some banks recently was whether or not a judge in Chancery would dispense a ruling in their favour . |
| 8 | I will perhaps call it a constipation in glass , wrote Harsnet , not a delay in glass , but an advance , he wrote , on my last readymade , the hard stool , my present to Goldberg on the occasion of his third wedding . |
| 9 | ‘ But not a chance in hell , old boy , of overturning it , ’ the refrain went . |
| 10 | Alternatively , such an entry might mean a temporary absence , on Church business if not a foray in quest of preferment . |
| 11 | There 's not a tune in sight . |
| 12 | Not a tractor in sight . |
| 13 | The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society . |
| 14 | The South Africans were escorted through red traffic lights to their hotel by police motorcyclists and vehicles , but there was not a demonstrator in sight . |
| 15 | This book is not a text in method and neither will its empirical core be used as a peg for methodological debates . |
| 16 | You wo n't , you definitely wo n't ask at the end of the first not a hope in hell begin the second , cos you might ask at the end of the second appointment . |
| 17 | I envisage and this is what I believe to be his last film Not a Hope in Hell early in 1960 . |
| 18 | The librarian is not a specialist in information in general , but in information about records . |
| 19 | ‘ And not a porter in sight . |
| 20 | Chester is not a town in isolation but the focal point for a large area , and there is a large and increasing potential market . |
| 21 | Although this is not a matter in respect of which we are asked to grant any relief , I believe that Lautro should reconsider its practice in this respect , and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had the opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded and to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board have ruled in the application . |
| 22 | By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available . |
| 23 | Two 's company , three 's a crowd , but when you 're talking about this generalized and more desexualized supplemented narcissistic libido to do with ego , then of course three is not a crowd in fact three erm is , is , er is the is er just as easy to accommodate as three thousand or three million , because it 's , it can be channelled into the group . |
| 24 | Sam was so quiet , there was not a snore in earshot . |
| 25 | Green fields , a coppice of trees , and not a roof in sight . |
| 26 | When the multi-millionaire megastar from Moonee Ponds lifted the lid off her hush-hush new spoof game show — there was not a celebrity in sight . |
| 27 | It 's not a difference in age ; it 's a difference in sex . |
| 28 | This was open desert , and there was not a dune in sight and it was firm underfoot . |
| 29 | The night was dark and still , and there was not a soul in sight . |
| 30 | It was misty , and there was not a soul in sight , and I had the same eerie feeling which came over me sometimes in other parts of the village . |