Example sentences of "not an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All WYSIWYG here in Quattro Pro 4 — not an add-in in sight . |
| 2 | It is not an hour in which a pupil sits learning what the tutor has to teach . |
| 3 | Here what is transposed is not an affix at all , but just a syllable . |
| 4 | The fact remains , however , that , although Thomas Henry is not an artist of the stature of Sir John Tenniel , Richmal Crompton 's William stories seem as incomplete without Henry 's illustrations as the Alice books without Tenniel 's . |
| 5 | The transformation of Labour is not an invention of Peter Mandelson ; it has been delivered by Mr Kinnock himself . |
| 6 | The combination of cheese and apples is not an invention of the north of England , but the merging of rich Wensleydale with sharp apple almost certainly is . |
| 7 | As a result he did a French translation of The Happy Hypocrite which was published in 1904 by the Mercure de France , illustrated with a caricature of Boulestin by Max ( Boulestin had some difficulty in convincing the Mercure 's editor that Max Beerbohm actually existed and was not an invention of his own ) . |
| 8 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
| 9 | The Council may provide that the provisions of any Codes of Practice promulgated by it shall be available to and shall be taken into account by the investigating and disciplinary bodies and , if appropriate , the appeals committee in determining whether or not an individual on the Register has failed to comply with the Rules of Conduct or is otherwise liable to disciplinary action pursuant to the Charter . |
| 10 | Although the outward appearance of a Joni painting is convincing , and analysis of the materials is not an indicator of his authorship , on further examination there are numerous give-aways . |
| 11 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |
| 12 | There 's not an organisation like ours round here . |
| 13 | " Only in the 1840 's and later did the situation begin to improve markedly ; and the class which now emerged into comparative prosperity was not an elite of labour aristocrats but a more homogenous class of factory workers … " ( p.47 ) |
| 14 | Reconciliation is not an event in the future to be anticipated but to be received now , because it is offered now ( Rom. 5:11 ) . |
| 15 | For Bultmann , the resurrection is not an event in our world ( for resurrections he would hold , as I , do not occur in our world ) , but something of far greater magnitude , an eschatological event which represents the breaking in of another world order . |
| 16 | There is not an abundance of thatched cottages in the wolds , but those that do exist are real gems . |
| 17 | I have some sympathy for the Home Secretary in these matters , he is not an Officer of State who over-occupies the position for whom I normally have a great deal of sympathy I must confess , er but on this occasion I do have some sympathy . |
| 18 | He 's not an officer of the constitut he is n't a treasurer , he is n't secretary , he 's , he 's nothing as far the constituency 's concerned . |
| 19 | I , I do n't , I 'm not an expert for poet , I , I , I feel about it , perhaps did n't |
| 20 | In fact I am not an expert on any aspect of the subject on which I am to speak . |
| 21 | ‘ Alas , I am not an expert in these machines , ’ he said , ‘ but my nightwatchman here reports … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not an expert in that field . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm not an expert in that area myself . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Hull made it clear that he did not know very much about the paintings and that he was not an expert in them . |
| 25 | Now , I 'm not an expert in |
| 26 | In the Third World land scarcity among the poor is due to skewed ownership , not an overload of people . |
| 27 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 28 | The blade tore Isambard 's cotte not an inch below his heart , but he had caught the lunging wrist in his left hand and jerked it outwards and downwards , and the thrust sliced through cotte and shirt down his ribs , and left only a harmless surface graze behind . |
| 29 | Not an inch in his Garden unimproved or unadorned , his very Poultry made happy by fifty little neat Contrivances . |
| 30 | The wording of 72 ( contrasting ‘ states of consciousness ’ with ‘ dispositions ’ ) reminds one of what Gilbert Ryle says in The Concept of Mind , and the wording of 101 ( ‘ We can not separate his ‘ thinking ’ from his activity' ) of what he says in his contribution to The Human Agent but Ryle and Wittgenstein , it seems to me , agree only on the negative point , that thinking is not an accompaniment of speaking and acting . |