Example sentences of "not [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways the difficulty was not some ministers ' demanding social solutions to social problems above individual solutions , but the underlying extent of the cultural absorption by Nonconformists discussed above . |
| 2 | But they 're not like dogs ' erm what do you say ? |
| 3 | The people will decide in not many weeks ' time . |
| 4 | Not all departments ' spending could be cash limited . |
| 5 | It shows that not all labourers ' cottages were flimsy hovels and that families in this group could aspire to reasonable comfort . |
| 6 | Describing conventional education as a ‘ conveyor belt ’ and noting ‘ the dullness of the eldest pupils compared with the brightness and self-sufficiency of the infants ’ , Denys Thompson of the Scrutiny group thought in 1932 that while education was ‘ very busy mass-producing interchangeable little components for the industrial machine ’ the concern of education ‘ should be to turn out ‘ misfits ’ ’ , not spare parts ' . |
| 7 | In the coal industry , people are now working not two hours ' overtime or nine or 10-hour shifts but 12 or 14 hours or sometimes more per shift . |