Example sentences of "a [adj] and not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn smiled up at him , pleased that she should be rescued by such a friendly and not unattractive individual . |
| 2 | He saw with pleasure that she looked cold but not frightened ; she was beginning to swim more slowly and for the first time with trust , as if the water were a friendly and not an alien element . |
| 3 | It was common ground that the scheme , though set up pursuant to a statutory obligation , was a private and not a public law scheme so that the procedure by way of originating summons rather than judicial review was appropriate . |
| 4 | We are , after all , performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis . |
| 5 | But this is a political and not an economic choice . |
| 6 | Thirdly , the move towards a national curriculum was resisted most strongly by those , mainly teachers and other educationists , who claimed that the nature and scope of the school curriculum was a professional and not a political matter . |
| 7 | Andre Beteille argues that the search for a biological basis for social stratification is bound to end in failure since the ‘ identification as well as the gradation of qualities is a cultural and not a natural process ’ . |
| 8 | The store had a peculiar and not altogether wholesome odour , a cross between a creek when the tide is out and the smell produced by the local sewage works . |
| 9 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 10 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 11 | He is after nothing less than a full-blown and not always approving commentary on Irish attitudes . |
| 12 | He was a fanatical and not very competent golfer and a member of the Royal Bucks Club . |
| 13 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
| 14 | His predecessor but one , Hensley Henson , invented the magazine the Bishoprick and by the force of his writing made it a national and not only a diocesan journal . |
| 15 | There is , however , another side to Gregory 's portrait , from which the king emerges as a suspicious and not totally effectual ruler . |
| 16 | Here , a constant and not a chance model of anarchic relations via exchange is obligatory … the law of value is merely the law of equilibrium of an anarchic commodity system … |
| 17 | When the shoes were changed , I knew that the hound must be a natural and not a supernatural creature . |
| 18 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
| 19 | None was formally invited , except for a late and not very attractive offer to Montagu , but Lloyd George would probably have been glad to have two or three of them had he believed that they would accept . |
| 20 | One minute we were quite settled in Leeds and the next minute we were running around in the rain in Brighton trying to get a flat and not being able to draw dole . |
| 21 | Holy though he may have been , Pius X , abetted by the English-born Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val , waged a vigorous and not always clean campaign against the dangers of modernism . |
| 22 | It was a short and not very effective venture ; he resigned before the 1935 general election because of business pressures , declining health , and failing eyesight . |
| 23 | Like many other pre-pubescent boys of the time , I spent the larger part of the Seventies with my shorts round my ankles , making magician 's hands ( raised above the shoulders , fingers splayed ) and shouting the incantation at a hairless and not especially elephantine willy . |
| 24 | First of all , it is a thrusting and not a snapping kick . |
| 25 | Although the largest of the 11 suits called for the immediate repayment of $1,200 million , bankers were reported on March 13 to be viewing the move as a defensive and not as a provocative act . |
| 26 | But at least the fusion community needs such volumes to remind it that at the end of the day the scientific juggling will come to nothing if it does not lead to a convenient and not too expensive source of electricity . |
| 27 | But the rapid and dramatic changes which are taking place in the world today , changes of a hopeful and not a frightening kind , could help to make a long-serving government more vulnerable to the time-for-a-change mentality . |
| 28 | Some generalisations proved possible , but only in a piecemeal and not wholly consistent fashion . |
| 29 | Similarly , Prophete still had a shrewd and not unaffectionate eye on his several scattered preferments . |
| 30 | Similarly , if you ever notice someone having a ‘ good ’ positive argument , even if they seem quite passionate , if you are allowed to listen , try and see what keeps it all on the straight and narrow and allows a beneficial and not destructive outcome to be the result . |