Example sentences of "not [noun sg] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Solving problems , however was not Highlander 's purpose , its purpose to ‘ help people learn to solve their problems in their own way , ’ and in its life since then Highlander has always worked with the under-privileged , exploited , relatively powerless communities which have approached it for assistance . |
| 2 | That was not boy 's cake ! |
| 3 | Therefore , each unit can be classified in terms of these properties and can take one of four combined values : home owner/trade unionist ; home owner/not trade unionist ; not home owner/trade unionist ; not home owner/not trade unionist . |
| 4 | This is not Quine 's conclusion . |
| 5 | ‘ No reason you should — you 're not Roman 's type , are you , Claudia ? |
| 6 | Their estrangement occurred with the publication of Not Daddy 's Girl , her angry book about Ingmar , who left her mother Ellen when Anna was two . |
| 7 | It is clearly not Amnesty 's view that damage to a woman 's marriage prospects is the sole or main reason for opposing rape . |
| 8 | The boys of King 's College School ( not King 's college , as listed on the cover ) perform with appropriate gusto in the Lionel Bart numbers , and there are strong contributions from the adult professionals and the National So under John Owen Edwards . |
| 9 | It was not Virgin 's responsibility , but from Chemical 's headquarters in New York , the instruction went out to terminate a number of existing contracts negotiated by the London office — Virgin 's among them . |
| 10 | But this flashback turns out not to represent a memory , or at least not Pistol 's memory , since King-to-be Henry repudiates him in voice-over , without Hal 's lips moving , though Falstaff reacts as if the words were spoken aloud . |
| 11 | Not Maman 's style at all , she thought , frowning . |
| 12 | ‘ Language is not thought 's dress , but its incarnation ’ — implying , surely , that one should not , at a later date , alter the text . |
| 13 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , John Wilkins was to say that a prevalent objection to the Copernican system was not man 's dethronement but an elevation above his true station . |
| 15 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 16 | This is not to say that a management buy-out is not arm 's length in most respects . |
| 17 | Marriage is n't child 's play |
| 18 | ‘ It is n't baby 's bath time yet , ’ continues Pa , speaking very calmly now , ‘ You do Cymbydoll while Mummy does Cymbeline ; that 's after tea . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That was n't Father 's fault ! ’ she said defensively . |
| 20 | It was n't Sky 's fault that the Premier League football on display represented the biggest mis-use of the word ‘ premier ’ since Adam and Eve learnt how to spell . |
| 21 | And it was n't Sky 's fault that I used to watch better football at Barnet for exactly the same price as the weekly rental price of a satellite dish . |
| 22 | ‘ Jeeze — if that was n't mother 's dress , I 'd tear it right off her . ’ |