Example sentences of "not [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of those held on remand will be found not guilty and a significant proportion do not receive custodial sentences when their case is finally heard — points not lost on the government , which is investing in additional bail hostels , special bail information schemes run by the probation service and , more controversially , pilot schemes malting use of electronic ‘ tagging ’ equipment ; these are all ways , it is hoped , to reduce what many see as an unnecessary and wasteful use of prison resources . |
| 2 | But though diesels made sense on paper , some staff were not convinced and a few even changed jobs to escape employers who imposed diesel cars on them . |
| 3 | Disputes between natural and adoptive parents are not unusual and a fair proportion of arrangements break down . |
| 4 | Dr Donald Clarke , of the British National Party , was not present and a show of hands suggested he has little support at the independent girls ' school . |
| 5 | If main foul drainage is not available and a private sewage disposal scheme is to be included with the development , permission will be required to discharge any effluent into water courses or underground strata . |
| 6 | Not one and a penny , not a shilling . |
| 7 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 8 | It 's not two and a half miles , it 's four centimetres . |
| 9 | I be four I 'm not four and a half am I mum ? |
| 10 | no I four I said not four and a month I 'm four |
| 11 | Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary |