Example sentences of "not a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a sad occasion at all . |
| 2 | The clause cited from the will , however , is not a pure example of a trust clause , for its purpose is not purely to confirm in trust form what has already been said in civil-law terms . |
| 3 | The fallacy in the plaintiffs ' argument lay in the assertion that the challenged paragraphs of the order of Buckley J. constituted a proprietary remedy and not a mere order for discovery . |
| 4 | It is not a mere reflection of it ; the media do not simply report the world for us in any ‘ neutral ’ or ‘ objective ’ sense , they interpret the world for us . |
| 5 | ‘ We now need a new party , one that is the heir and not a mere continuation of the present one . |
| 6 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 7 | It is not a mere matter of citizenship ; it is a birthright and a shared inheritance . |
| 8 | Enlightened Despotism is not a mere figment of the historian 's imagination . |
| 9 | In Flockhart v. Robinson Lord Goddard C.J. said that it is ‘ not a mere body of persons ; it is a body of persons who are moving along a route . ’ |
| 10 | In 1950 the Court had held these ‘ declarations to constitute recognition by the Union of the continuance of the obligations under the Mandate and not a mere indication of future conduct of that government . ’ |
| 11 | The cyclic model of development was intended to thwart the transmutationists , but was not a mere product of Owen 's and Miller 's imaginations . |
| 12 | This is not a private prison as such — it is a public building built and run by taxpayers ’ money . |
| 13 | However , this type of internal cohesion is not a necessary feature of the structural unit we have described as the paratone . |
| 14 | A lengthy public enquiry probed the cause of the disaster and attributed blame to certain officials , but blame is not a necessary part of this story . |
| 15 | Stylistic categories are more complex phenomena which are often difficult to define , but which are assumed to be describable in terms of linguistic categories , although they are not a necessary part of the description of a language . |
| 16 | Apart from the statue within , sculpture is not a necessary part of this design , but it is often added , always in certain set positions : akroteria , freestanding statues above the three angles of the gable ; and reliefs on the metopes and in the pediments . |
| 17 | It is not a necessary part of the design of a Russian bomb that it should have detailed , one-to-one correspondences with specific details of an American bomb . |
| 18 | Though most cases of conversion at common law fall within the categories of taking or abusing possession , such acts on the part of the defendant are not a necessary element in liability provided he has dealt with the goods in a way inconsistent with the plaintiff 's rights , such as signing a delivery order for goods which are delivered under that order . |
| 19 | So to stop it being a through route , because it 's not part it 's not a necessary route for private cars to go down , and it is , of course , extremely important because the entrance to the bus station is off that route . |
| 20 | What I referred to previously as the comprador mentality , the slavish attachment to things foreign , is not a necessary component of the ideology of the TCC , but it does occur ( see Chan , 1987 , ch.18 ) . |
| 21 | This keen and ever growing group within our sport needs regular social golf , competition play and the opportunity to show that club membership is not a necessary requirement for good manners and golf etiquette . |
| 22 | He concluded , however , that it was not a necessary precondition of a restitutionary order under section 6(2) or of a remedial order under section 61(1) that the person against whom the order was made , whether the contravener or the person ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the contravention , should have received the money or property ordered to be restored to the investor . |
| 23 | Thus , quite justifiably , Marx and Engels used anthropological examples to show that private property or the State is not a necessary institution for human beings . |
| 24 | Friendliness is not a necessary attribute in a horse ; it is just a pleasant one . |
| 25 | Separation is not a necessary cause for depression because many depressions develop in its absence … |
| 26 | An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability . |
| 27 | The more general international implications of this thesis , however , may require modification since in a country like Sweden , which has a very high level of white-collar union density , government action was apparently not a necessary condition for the growth of such unions ( Adams , 1974 ) . |
| 28 | What is clear is that mental life does not cease during NREM sleep , and REM sleep is not a necessary condition for dreaming . |
| 29 | Alright , yield maximization is not a necessary condition for profit maximization , alright , in er , in a free , free market . |
| 30 | Of course consent to obey the law is not a necessary condition of such an attitude . |