Example sentences of "a [adj] [not/n't] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It fails to establish a trust not because it is unclear , but because it does not conform to the pattern for a trust : it is a direct not a mediate wording . |
| 2 | Gladstone 's case for a balanced budget was above all a moral not a technical one . |
| 3 | It was a real not a conjectural cause ; for it was known to exist from observations of swinging pendulums and falling stones down here on earth . |
| 4 | In an isotropic medium ( in which the dielectric constant is a scalar not a tensor ) the directions of the E and D lines coincide , thus Figs. 2.40 and 2.41 may refer to either . |
| 5 | In fact when we say a piece of language is rhythmic we mean that we as readers have a rhythmic response to it — rhythm is a perceptual not a physical fact . |
| 6 | policy advocates — a preference for policy matters on a city-wide not a ward perspective . |
| 7 | She is interested in accents and she 'll listen to it and think , Ah that 's someone who comes from Liverpool , er not a very not a very scouse accent but because they say |
| 8 | In programming , the shifts were of emphasis — towards the needs of minorities , for example — that reflected the different society and culture of 1980s Britain and that took a pluralist not a paternalist view of the meaning of ‘ service ’ . |
| 9 | When is a Truant not a Truant ? |
| 10 | And it has to be said that most of us are likely to have some kind of experience when our ego is deflated ; and that can often have a beneficial not a negative effect . |
| 11 | Finally , John repeated that he wanted a positive not a negative Council . |
| 12 | Their perseverance revealed the obvious : needs and capacities continue to change after a person has been de-hospitalized or moved from the parental home to a group home — and the developmental role has therefore to be seen as a permanent not a temporary one . |
| 13 | Homelessness to me is a lack in any particular individual 's case of whatever their community considers to be a home , i.e. it is an economic not a psychological state . |