Example sentences of "not [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not that a tribute to the massive increase in the productivity of the farming community and to the massive increase in the earning power of the British worker ? |
| 2 | Is not that a tribute to the quality of education within them ? |
| 3 | Is not that a tribute to the Islander designers and the engineers who built them ? |
| 4 | Is not that a tribute to the work done not only by him but by his recent predecessors ? |
| 5 | Is not that a confusion of conceptual analysis and normative argument ? |
| 6 | Is not that a discourtesy to the Select Committee , which is made up mainly of Conservative Back Benchers ? |
| 7 | Is not that a disgrace ? |
| 8 | Is not that a disgrace ? |
| 9 | Is not that a consequence of the increasing sophistication of terrorist ant-interrogation techniques , such as the ability to destroy forensic evidence ? |
| 10 | Is not that a consequence of the need to provide up to £15 million to cure the concrete cancer problem at Craigavon ? |
| 11 | However if that is not possible a personnel software package will require to be purchased for the PCs already available . |
| 12 | Obviously , I 'm just giving you the down-side , if you 're going to be there in your office , and you know you 're going to be there , you 're not going to dash off , or if you are , you can hear your phone ringing , erm it 's very , very handy , and in fact it 's smoother , because the person phoning in gets to speak to the person they want to speak to , not half a day , half a week later , alright ? |
| 13 | Daddy bought a house in the Hollywood Hills , not half a mile from my mother 's . |
| 14 | Not half a mile along the road from the ruins of Milcom Moloch they would find the ruins of a burned-out taxi-cab . |
| 15 | set the pace for Austria with the , track record run of fifty seven point seven four and the second bob is fifteenth see I mean they 're , they 're , they 're fifty seven , eight for nine against fifty seven , seven , four , so I mean they 're not half a second then , I mean they were , they were first in the two man and then they dropped six after one run so |
| 16 | that 's not half a page , about that see that one you did , you used to have one on your thing , on your er doodah |
| 17 | Mind you , it 's not such a surprise coming from one who is self-confessedly arrogant and opinionated and whose only accolade is that he edits a magazine . |
| 18 | The descent from the second Munro was knee-wrenching , and although it 's a relief to regain the track in the glen , it 's not such a relief to remember how far away the starting point is . |
| 19 | Would not such a course of action be as successful as the racing tips of the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) ? |
| 20 | I was very good at planning menus and cooking , but not such a whizz at car , boiler or electrical appliance repairs or breakdowns . |
| 21 | So I said , and for once L. ( Leonard ) said : ‘ You 're not such a fool as you seem ’ . |
| 22 | I am not such a fool . |
| 23 | I 'm not such a fool as to look for love again . ’ |
| 24 | Though — ’ he sat back and gave her a grim smile ‘ — I hope he 's not such a fool as to pay over the odds for your services . ’ |
| 25 | Even if a ‘ member ’ for the purposes of the Lautro Rules ( an assumption which Mr. Beloff said was false ) , Winchester was not such a member as is referred to in rule 7.3(11) . |
| 26 | Perhaps her husband was not such a shit after all , Blanche thought , just a human being who experienced the same tangled skein of feelings as held her then . |
| 27 | There were exceptions , recognised by the statute and the courts , but this was not such a case ; all that could be said was that economic damage , perhaps very severe , might be done to the defendant if publicity were not withheld . |
| 28 | ‘ And I am not such a man . ’ |
| 29 | In other areas where community charge is not such a factor you do n't get it . |
| 30 | But it is not such a quantum leap to understand two cooking media as it is to grasp the principles of some multi-task ovens which appear to have nearly as many functions as the ubiquitous Swiss army knife . |