Example sentences of "that [not/n't] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a great pity that not one member of the Liberal Democratic party could be bothered to attend the European Standing Committee this morning , where we debated those matters for nearly two and a half hours . |
| 2 | Is the hon. and learned Gentleman aware that not one Member of Parliament from the Scottish National party is present , although I am sure that , in common with everyone else in Scotland , we shall be challenged by it to hear statements about its separatist policies ? |
| 3 | It is certain that not one incident of satanic abuse has been proved anywhere in the world , An American child abuse counsellor from Illinois , Pamala Klein , was instrumental in bringing the scare to Britain . |
| 4 | I knew that not one person had guessed there was anything wrong . |
| 5 | What did they all think now , I wondered , all those German people living down there in the wreckage of their homes , remembering how their Fuhrer had promised them that not one bomb would fall upon the Fatherland ? |
| 6 | I tabled a question asking how much the Government had set aside for bad debts , and the answer showed that not one penny had been set aside . |
| 7 | The class would then be asked to write an account of the incident and Professor Macmurray took great pleasure in pointing out that not one version tallied with any of the others . |
| 8 | In the case of Monetary Union , the situation arises not just from the special treatment accorded to the UK and Denmark , but also from the fact that it was appreciated that not all Member States would meet the rather strict criteria for economic convergence laid down as the precondition for participation in the monetary union ; such States are referred to as ‘ Member States with a derogation ’ , and would , inter alia , be excluded from the decision-making process on certain matters . |
| 9 | It is important that we recognise that not all knowledge carries the same status . |
| 10 | At the same time , we must recognise that not all entertainment is good education . |
| 11 | It is important to realise that not all sentence ambiguity originates in lexical ambiguity ; furthermore , our tests for ambiguity are not , in general , capable of discriminating between lexical and non-lexical varieties . |
| 12 | The phrase ‘ can be followed by ’ indicates that not all crime does actually result in police action and prosecution , an issue we will examine in more detail in a discussion of criminal statistics ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 13 | However , it must be pointed out that not all monopoly suppliers act against the public interest ( eg it is not suggested even by the most ardent advocate of privatisation — refer to Chapter 3 — that the water supply or sewage disposal industries should provide competitive services to each household ; the duplication of resources in these cases would be extremely wasteful to society ) , nor do all oligopolies abuse their position . |
| 14 | Perhaps the first thing to realise is that not all page printers use laser beams ; there are many other successful technologies including LED arrays , LCD shutters , ink-jet , magneto-deposition and ion-deposition . |
| 15 | to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against . |
| 16 | However , serious differences continued to present obstacles to an agreement : ( i ) the Soviet Union insisted that not all combat aircraft be included in the treaty , although it made an important concession on this point in September ( see p. 36909 ) ; ( ii ) of the five categories of weapons to be included in a treaty-aircraft , helicopters , tanks , armoured vehicles and artillery ( with troops being the sixth element in an agreement ) -consensus on the definition of the weapons system and the items in that category to be included was only reached on artillery ( see below ) ; ( iii ) the Warsaw Pact insisted on an undertaking by NATO to conduct separate negotiations on the reduction of naval forces ( see Malta summit disagreement on naval forces p. 37111 ) ; and ( iv ) the Warsaw Pact demanded that no modernization of short-range missiles by NATO take place ( see also p. 37227 ) . |
| 17 | It is important to note that not all value is ‘ new value ’ for the purpose of section 245 as the latter is confined to money , goods or services and excluded are , for example , intellectual property and rights under a contract . |
| 18 | while we do not exclude audit clients from the scope of the search it is crucial that not professional contact is made with anybody working for potential target companies in KPMG . |
| 19 | The President was amused , conceding that not much cricket or rugby was played in the United States , but as a sports fan himself he understood — especially as a Southerner , aware of the significance of sport in the Deep South , and of the fact that I came from an ever Deeper South than he did … |
| 20 | But services often become sheer routine , with the result that not much effort is put into preparation , either by congregations or by their leaders . |
| 21 | It may even come as a surprise to some to learn that fish and chips is opaque at all ; but one needs only to consider that not any kind of fish , nor any method of cooking and presentation , will qualify for the description , and that this is not true of , say , chips and fish or even fish with chips , both of which are transparent . |
| 22 | Mr Rich said many dentists were concerned that not enough money was being made available by the Government to implement the contract and he had approached Mrs Bottomley , Health Secretary , to arrange a meeting . |
| 23 | All in all David and I agreed that not enough work has been done to merit the meeting in Barcelona in the week beginning 10 July . |
| 24 | President Zine al Abidine Ben Ali did not even attend the Arab League summit in Cairo , claiming that not enough preparation had gone into the meeting . |
| 25 | This hundred name petition against the dump concludes that not enough notice was given of the plans . |
| 26 | From a television point of view I was slightly disappointed that not enough importance was attached to the match . |
| 27 | AMV identified the fact that not enough business people were reading the magazine . |
| 28 | Part of the explanation for this failure is that not enough information about investment plans is available to the market , and also that market participants lack the technical ability to evaluate what may be highly complex and specialised projects . |
| 29 | They complained so much that not enough time had been allowed them for their discussions that we had them back a second week . |
| 30 | In July an Indian government report on the February crash of an Indian Airlines Airbus A320 in Bangalore in February 1990 [ see p. 37268 ] found that not enough time had been allowed to enable personal to adapt to changes in aircraft , equipment , maintenance , ground facilities and the training of engineers and pilots . |