Example sentences of "not a [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a mark on him so it must have been natural causes ; anyway it would seem that he comes back to his old home or sort of stamping ground . |
| 2 | There is certainly not a mark on his perfectly-formed body . |
| 3 | ‘ Not a mark on him , ’ said Thelma , ‘ saints be praised ! ’ |
| 4 | Not a mark on the body . ’ |
| 5 | This time poor Allingham 's been found dead in his chamber , with not a mark on his body . |
| 6 | While he was away at the buffet , MacMinimum said quietly to John : ‘ For God 's sake , say not a word on railways . |
| 7 | Not a word on why Scum could nt break us down . |
| 8 | no , I 'm not a bundle on |
| 9 | Nor were they always as intransigent as was implied by Cook 's famous slogan ‘ Not a penny off the pay , not a minute on the day ’ . |
| 10 | Thomas Cole was not a diarist on the scale or with the range of one of the French painters , surely respected even by him , Eugène Delacroix . |
| 11 | But she 's not a committee on her own is she ? |
| 12 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 13 | This is not a treatise on geology , biology , or any other science . |
| 14 | However , as this is not a treatise on the Venetian tradition , we will leave the subject here , with no more than a reminder of its possibilities . |
| 15 | That 's not a reflection on GMTV . |
| 16 | Last night a spokesman for the SO players said they were unhappy with the proposals , although their ballot was not a reflection on the SO management , in whom they still had complete faith . |
| 17 | There was Bea 's beautifully preserved E-type , not a scratch on it , Jill 's Audi , Susie 's B.M.W. , Alice 's Saab Turbo , Ronnie 's Metro Vanden Plas , and one car that he did not recognise , a Fiat 127 with an A registration . |
| 18 | She could see dance programmes filling up , and not a name on hers . |
| 19 | 1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure . |
| 20 | I guessed that she had been blown far from her oasis , and now there was no landmark other than the wheelbarrow , not a tree , not a blade of grass , not a ripple on the plain , nor a rock bigger than my fist . |
| 21 | At the former there is a mini retrospective of the artist 's ‘ accumulations ’ ( earliest from 1962 , latest from last year ) while at the latter there is ‘ Cycles ’ not a meditation on the passing stages of an artist 's life but , more prosaically , about the leg-propelled two-wheeled conveyance . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that Saul 's Crack is not a route on which to learn the mystical art of jamming , but it is a good test of technique . |
| 23 | Kenneth has a list of questions to ask as a result of his reading , but the Dr has to admit that the subject is a highly complex one and that his knowledge is limited as he is a G.P. and not a specialist on the subject . |
| 24 | Not a man on board could guess how he had killed the others . |
| 25 | You need gentleness tonight , not a man on the knife-edge of control . ’ |
| 26 | On 2 November 1836 , a year before the last part of Birds was published , Gould wrote to Jardine of his latest ambition : ‘ Would not a work on the Birds of Australia be interesting ? |
| 27 | Yet , for all the suffering they will cause in Kuwait — killing people as well as thousands of animals — such pollution is not a catastrophe on a planetary scale , as some had predicted . |
| 28 | Fanshawe was a wealthy stockbroker with a flat in Mayfair and , apart from a bit of moral nastiness , not a stain on his character . |
| 29 | All present and correct , with not a stain on it anywhere . |
| 30 | Not a comment on municipal mismanagement , but the extraordinary fate of the ST–18 Croydon , abandoned on a coral atoll in 1936 . |