Example sentences of "not a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes Bernard would work all through the night and there was not a day in winter even in snowy , freezing weather when they would n't turn up and bring sandwiches and bottles to keep us all going . ’ |
| 2 | Until the end of the last century , knitting was not a pastime in Dent but a livelihood . |
| 3 | 1880 , moreover , is not a date in religious history , even if the French abolished military chaplains and the British parliament opened parish churchyards to nonconformist burial services in that year . |
| 4 | A randomised trial of children in South Australia who were prone to recurrent respiratory infections showed a reduction in respiratory events for those taking vitamin A , but not a reduction in total days of illness . |
| 5 | Well folks this was not a classic in fact the first 40 minutes of the first half was utterly crap . |
| 6 | Could not a promise in effect to forgo this liberty constitute consideration ? |
| 7 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
| 8 | It was the premium put upon child labour within the domestic family economy of textile manufacture which provides the context for Defoe 's observations of around 1720 on Norfolk that " the very children after four or five years of age , could earn their own bread " , while at Taunton " there was not a child in the town , or in the villages round it , of above five years old , but , if it was not neglected by its parents , and untaught , could earn its own bread " . |
| 9 | Well you can see how new it is cos the cupboards have never had nothing in them I do n't think cos they 're just , there 's not a mark in them . |
| 10 | He said this was not a change in policy , because peacekeepers had a duty to see that no harm came to civilians . |
| 11 | God was not a word in a book or a gigantic figure in the sky . |
| 12 | Privacy was not a word in our vocabulary , and postcards and diaries were mercilessly read aloud as we trekked through the jungle of North Borneo . |
| 13 | When Cassio has been attacked by Iago , apparently murdered , Othello lauds his master 's example : The murder scene , with its marvellously wrought language , a ceremony that Othello thinks of as a sacrifice , is the most deluded , most fictitious scene in Shakespeare — not a word in it that Othello says is true . |
| 14 | ‘ Not a word in front of John , ’ warned Dotty . |
| 15 | For the latter , the term God is the main religious symbol for the Ground of Being while , for the former , God is the name we give to the mysterious power that pervades the universe and not a symbol in the Tillichian sense . |
| 16 | I 'm not a brick in a wall . |
| 17 | There is not a school in the land that does n't teach mathematics and English . |
| 18 | Firstly , it is said that this is not a case in which interim relief is appropriate or possible at all . |
| 19 | And the women were in their formals and they all sat down and there was not a laugh in the entire show . |
| 20 | Not a laugh in it . |
| 21 | ‘ Why not a drink in the bar at six-thirty ? ’ she suggested . |
| 22 | For if you were such a brain , then , provided that the scientist is successful , nothing in your experience could possibly reveal that you were ; for your experience is ex hypothesi identical with that of something which is not a brain in a vat . |
| 23 | Is it possible , however , that though you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat you still know many other things , perhaps more important ? |
| 24 | You presumably also know that if you are sitting reading , you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 25 | We can surely conclude that if you know that you are sitting reading , you know that you are not a brain in a vat , and hence ( by simple modus tollens ) that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat ( agreed above ) you do n't know that you are sitting reading . |
| 26 | We can surely conclude that if you know that you are sitting reading , you know that you are not a brain in a vat , and hence ( by simple modus tollens ) that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat ( agreed above ) you do n't know that you are sitting reading . |
| 27 | It seems therefore to show , more generally , that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat you can not know any proposition p of which you know that if p were true , you would not be a brain in a vat . |
| 28 | In fact its grip is restricted entirely to those propositions whose truth would mean that you were not a brain in a vat . |
| 29 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 30 | Perhaps , however , we can make this claim by appeal to the initial moves of the argument that you are not justified in believing that you are not a brain in a vat . |