Example sentences of "and not a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1892 there were 340 members and not a foreigner among them ( Americans did n't count ) . |
| 2 | One kindly informed that Troutdale Pinnacle was a Severe ( albeit mild ) and not a V.Diff , which elevated my ego a notch . |
| 3 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 4 | Well that 's o that is a finance company and not a building society . |
| 5 | Pahl and Winkler , however , construct an ideal type of corporatist system , and not a description of contemporary Britain . |
| 6 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 7 | ‘ Now 's the time to prove that I am a singer and not a singing soap star . ’ |
| 8 | Not for the first — or last — time in my life , I wished that my name began with a W and not a B ! |
| 9 | During pre-trial hearings at the Old Bailey , Mr Greenway 's counsel argued that he should be tried by his fellow MPs and not a court of law . |
| 10 | However , this seepage was slight and not a problem . |
| 11 | The several presidents of colleges present at the meeting kept insisting that ‘ accreditation is dead ’ and not a problem : there is plenty of flexibility in the system , they said . |
| 12 | Sometimes , however , an alternative , less heroic but equally anti-correctionalist picture was painted : working-class crime was in reality mostly petty , irrelevant and not a problem , but had been made to appear so by the mass media blowing it up , misrepresenting it and creating crime-scares . |
| 13 | That was quite funny because it was our first Christmas down there and I was saying to the housekeeper that I I would n't mind having people come and stay and not a problem because we 've got a lovely cooker and we 're going to bring our microwave down from . |
| 14 | With the boarding in place , and back-filled with clay for support , the inner contours of the pool were now very angular , and not a bit wildlifey . |
| 15 | And not a bit stuck up in spite of her brilliance . |
| 16 | ‘ And not a porter in sight . |
| 17 | Delivery of air cargo to a named consignee or agent merely requires his identification , and not a surrender of the air waybill . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All the same , he is a boy and not a symbol . |
| 20 | It 's a letter from the Executive Services Officer that states , rule six , which is the one I 've just been talking about on the previous motion , is quite clear in saying that only individual members can pursue appeals and not a branch . |
| 21 | Mr. Harrison accepts that the liability of the original lessee and other direct covenantees is a primary liability and not a collateral or secondary liability , e.g. by way of surety . |
| 22 | They are full of fun and not a breed that you can leave for long periods of time , as they are so human orientated . |
| 23 | If Ulster ever ends up being ruled from Dublin , then a child on the Shankill throwing stones at the Irish army ( which would then be the provos in new uniforms ) , would be a hero and not a terrorist . |
| 24 | He declared that ‘ our only wish is that Afghanistan should be a neutral and independent state developing in its own right and friendly to the USSR , and not a base for hostile activity threatening the security of neighbours ’ . |
| 25 | If a writer produces a novel in which the role of the police in society outweighs all other considerations , then what has been produced is precisely a novel and not a work of crime fiction . |
| 26 | Yet I loved her so much and not a day goes past without a thought of her . |
| 27 | Or was it because it was Finn who kissed her and not a man like the men in whose arms she had imagined herself when she used to imagine things like that , in the past ? |
| 28 | Norman McBeath is , as his name suggests a purebred Scot and not a man of Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | It does appear however , the application made to us , is exclusively local authority support and not a part of an overall support that includes the commission for racial equality . |
| 30 | There was a little flabbiness in her lower belly , because she was a woman and not a girl , but she had a tight waist . |