Example sentences of "not this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But it was not this way from the beginning .
2 ‘ Maybe my father would have expected that but certainly not this generation of Serras .
3 Over the years there has been much debate as to whether or not this state of affairs is really acceptable even given the fact that these industries are highly independent bodies .
4 The Court of Appeal overruled the decision on the facts , but not this interpretation of the general law .
5 Suppose' however' that there were not this degree of regularity .
6 However , it is not clear whether or not this type of singularity will occur in other solutions , particularly as the Khan-Penrose solution contains impulsive gravitational waves .
7 The evaluation was carried out in order to provide information for a decision as to whether or not this type of material could be used for the user instruction programme at Chalmers University Library .
8 Was not this type of legislation a threat to freedom ?
9 And particularly not this kind of game . ’
10 I 'm not this drink at the moment anyway .
11 The Rough Wooing was to continue , not this time as a series of devastating raids , but by seizing and garrisoning Scottish fortresses as the basis for English control , and by Somerset 's own comprehensive victory over the Scots at Pinkie in September 1547 .
12 ‘ Only the shepherd and not this time of the year . ’
13 Not really , not this time of the day is it ?
14 Not this time of the year .
15 I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night !
16 er I 'm sorry to produce the problems er erm we can not this time for large sum of money which er the labour group in particular er want to provide in this area er to spend on rights of way .
17 Not this time at any rate .
18 The covenant was not just an important past event preserved by tradition but was the theme of what Gunnell calls ‘ a communal drama played out between Yahweh — He who will be there — and His people in time ’ , for in the words of Deuteronomy 5 : 3 , ‘ The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers , but with us , even us , who are all of us here alive this day . ’
19 Dulé passed them and remembered how he had only felt wonder , not this stab of pleasure , when first he saw them sleeping on the ground near Ariel 's cabin that long year ago .
20 There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs
21 Not this sort of problem .
22 Yeah , but not this sort of stuff .
23 not this sort of thing you would n't as I say
24 Not this sort of er , this sort of thing .
25 We need stability over the medium term at the very least in order to produce the units that we need , not this sort of one minute you 're off , one minute you 're not and again , if you were serious the resources were already there , there in terms of the capital receipts that people already had .
26 Gastroenterologists , therefore , have a responsibility to review their results to show whether or not this form of surveillance is effective .
27 but not this dark at four , not yet .
28 The kitschy Sixties strip routines are , er , amusing — but was n't this kind of thing supposed to belong in Fenn 's pre-Lynch past ?
29 What 's the , what 's , w why is n't this kind of process easy ?
30 Does n't this kind of dancing meet with your approval ? ’
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