Example sentences of "not [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By 1918 there were many Labour Party parliamentarians and trade unionists who would willingly have excluded the ILP from the party , were it not that opposition to the war had spread quite widely and had partly justified the ILP position . |
| 3 | Does not that hostility to the charter give the lie to the Opposition parties ' request for freedom of information ? |
| 4 | Does not that point to the need to give serious consideration to other methods of dealing with terrorism ? |
| 5 | Mr Justice Kennedy ordered there should be a not guilty verdict to the attempted murder charge which Tapping , of Uvedale Road , South Bank , Middlesbrough , had denied . |
| 6 | Maybe we Scots and Irish have paid a high price for our long memories , but who in Scotland or Ireland has not some attitude to the Great Hunger , or the Clearances , or just to a vague morass of names , Culloden and Robert the Bruce and Rebel Songs ? |
| 7 | It is also unfortunate that in such a morphologically oriented book there was not some attention to atherosclerotic aneurysms . |
| 8 | The social reality is that the uses of ‘ history ’ , if not always as crude and blatant as this , always involve selection , speculation and hypothesised connections , and that the scholars operating this process are products of a specific society , speak its language and are imbued with its ideology , so their work must always bear a complex if not tangential relationship to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 9 | THERE was not another house to be seen from the Boggle Hole hostel on the North Yorkshire coast , as we woke to the gentle sounds of the warden reciting Buddhist mantras , and waves lapping the sands . |
| 10 | Plaintiffs may sue for libel even though they have suffered no financial loss but for slander ( with certain exceptions ) they must be able to prove actual damage and not mere injury to feelings . |
| 11 | He kept up a routine of a sort , but as , from a mixture of laziness and disapproval of political scribblers like Lloyd George and Churchill , he never wrote anything , and increasingly preferred sniffing old books to reading new ones , there was not much purpose to his life . |
| 12 | It 's not much help to anyone . |
| 13 | So , ontologically speaking , there is not much enlightenment to be-gained by pursuing this road either . |
| 14 | A sweaty , gamey , meaty nose , I thought , drying out a touch at the finish , not much body to it . |
| 15 | ‘ In that case , there 's not much point to this conversation , is there ? ’ she asked tautly . |
| 16 | Art therapy can be of immense value to some Disabled people , as it is to some non-Disabled people , but it has not intrinsic link to Disability and offers no solution to the problem as Disabled people perceive it . |
| 17 | It is logical that they revealed an intimate but not servile attachment to the achievements of past master sculptors . |
| 18 | All went well until RAF Benson had chased him all round the sky and their MATZ before issuing their not unusual request to ‘ resume your own navigation ’ leaving him totally lost , heading into a nasty and unforecast rainstorm and trying to track into the White Waltham entry lane using cross-cuts on the single VOR . |
| 19 | 2.29 The assessment of a husband 's claim is made in a not dissimilar fashion to the way in which a wife 's claim is approached . |
| 20 | This is a not dissimilar point to the one we made earlier concerning sampling individuals from a social world which is relationally organised . |
| 21 | A not uncommon solution to the feeling that the conventional family stunts the individuality of its members is for people to elect to live on their own . |
| 22 | Of all types of education , professional courses experience the tension between theory and practice most strongly , because they give considerable if not equal weight to each . |
| 23 | The first , which is , of course , also a point of particular although not exclusive concern to large numbers of less well-off people over pension age , is the further large increase in the special income support limits for those in residential care and nursing homes . |
| 24 | While not all reference to building surveyors is quite so supportive , clearly this Committee has a new perspective . |
| 25 | There is not better introduction to discovering the Classical Masterpieces than through the ‘ Great Classical Collection ’ Club . |
| 26 | In the meantime Sir Joseph Pennington , aggrieved perhaps that his mines were not yielding income to his estate , issued a grand proclamation on 21 February 1730 offering his copper and lead mines and works at Tilberthwaite and Langdale ( including Greenhurn ) for a term of 21 years maximum to any substantial persons allowing a duty of 14s. per " Tunn " for copper and 10s. for lead , reckoning " … |
| 27 | On Thursday night the IRA issued a not unexpected retort to Sir John 's comments , saying it was ‘ equipped and utterly determined to meet the government head-on ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Then you are not living life to the full . ’ |
| 29 | In January 1971 , shooting began in what Patrick Agan , a previous biographer of Hoffman , called ‘ a desolate corner of Britain' , a risible if not insulting reference to the county of Cornwall . |
| 30 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |