Example sentences of "not [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denote this intervention by X. In the case of agriculture , biology , medicine and even psychology , formal laboratory or field experiments can usually be done ; in the social sciences this is generally not possible but a good survey can often be thought of in quasi-experimental terms . |
| 2 | Some of those held on remand will be found not guilty and a significant proportion do not receive custodial sentences when their case is finally heard — points not lost on the government , which is investing in additional bail hostels , special bail information schemes run by the probation service and , more controversially , pilot schemes malting use of electronic ‘ tagging ’ equipment ; these are all ways , it is hoped , to reduce what many see as an unnecessary and wasteful use of prison resources . |
| 3 | Erm it 's a difficult balance , change is very rarely popular and quite often it 's only ever talked about but sometimes it happens and even then it 's not popular but a balanced and open mind is required to approach change but perhaps more important , and this is n't always mentioned , suggestions about change tend to come from rather specific areas and there are rather specific interest groups which may start the process of change |
| 4 | that drinking too much is not clever or a sign of being grown-up |
| 5 | A person who erects or installs such plant must ensure that the installation is not unsafe or a risk to health . |
| 6 | But though diesels made sense on paper , some staff were not convinced and a few even changed jobs to escape employers who imposed diesel cars on them . |
| 7 | Disputes between natural and adoptive parents are not unusual and a fair proportion of arrangements break down . |
| 8 | It does express some of the deeper discontents and anxieties of the contemporary working class , particularly a real sense of loss , which is not nostalgic but a genuine understanding of the cost of ‘ progress ’ in terms of any sense of community or collective responsibility . |
| 9 | Of course , the law only recognizes the patient 's right to self-determination in circumstances in which the patient is both legally competent ( that is , not unconscious or a young child ) and sufficiently lucid to comprehend what he is doing . |
| 10 | Dr Donald Clarke , of the British National Party , was not present and a show of hands suggested he has little support at the independent girls ' school . |
| 11 | I am not medical or a scientist , but can guess that the garlic affects the whole of the blood stream as far as the insect is concerned . |
| 12 | The petition was not successful but a deputation to Sir James Graham , Home Secretary , in April 1842 received some encouragement and an amended petition and a draft of a Charter of Incorporation was submitted to him on 24 March 1843 . |
| 13 | If you do not feel competent enough to fit them then entrust the job to someone who is Instructions are not available but a |
| 14 | Dinner is not available but a full English breakfast is offered . |
| 15 | If main foul drainage is not available and a private sewage disposal scheme is to be included with the development , permission will be required to discharge any effluent into water courses or underground strata . |
| 16 | Even within one region economic and social change was not uniform but a fugue in which old voices do not cease to sound when new voices enter . |
| 17 | The ability to speak French is not essential but a willingness to learn would be considered desirable . |
| 18 | Not one and a penny , not a shilling . |
| 19 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 20 | It is certainly not stocked by any of the main homoeopathic suppliers in this country and I can assume therefore that it is most likely not homoeopathic but a herbal product — unless it has been imported from abroad , possibly Europe . |
| 21 | It 's not two and a half miles , it 's four centimetres . |
| 22 | It likes to rent its chalets to whole groups travelling together for £500 to £1,000 each half-board — not cheap but a bargain for what you get . |
| 23 | Dashing through the rain behind her came not Bheki but a man in his thirties or forties , slight , dapper , with a moustache . |
| 24 | I be four I 'm not four and a half am I mum ? |
| 25 | no I four I said not four and a month I 'm four |
| 26 | The main difference between the integrated and the marginal man is not qualitative but a quantitative difference in the structure of occupational , educational and housing opportunities . |