Example sentences of "not [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not that new manufacturing capacity brought here by the Government 's successes in promoting Britain and the north of England as a location for manufacturing ? |
| 2 | Is not that one matter that could be rearranged ? |
| 3 | Whether it is true or not that good teachers are born , not made , they accurately perceived that bad teachers , at least in many cases , are made , not born . |
| 4 | Not that good fortune should have come into it . |
| 5 | Not that good works were unimportant . |
| 6 | No novelist writing earlier than Dickens would , for example , have concentrated on a boarding house — not that fictional characters do n't stay in them occasionally , but they are not seen from the landlady 's ( or boarding house 's ) point of view . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) In sections 173 , 174 and 176 above , the expression ‘ approved duty ’ , in relation to a member of a body , means any of the following duties , that is to say — ( a ) attendance at a meeting of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; ( b ) the doing of any other thing approved by the body , or anything of a class so approved , for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; , ( c ) where , in pursuance of a duty imposed on or a power granted to the body by any enactment or instrument ( including a Royal Charter ) , he has been appointed by or on the nomination of the body to be a member of some other body prescribed for the purpose of this paragraph ( whether or not that other body falls within any of paragraphs ( ab ) to ( f ) of subsection ( 1 ) above ) , the doing of anything as a member of that other body for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of that other body . |
| 8 | It is not that primary teachers must become preoccupied with examinations or tests to be taken at the time when a child changes school . |
| 9 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 10 | It is not that revolutionary movements have been absent ( and they will be considered in more detail in Chapter 4 ) but that they have failed to elicit sustained and effective support from any large part of the working class . |
| 11 | It is not that varying degrees of procedural protection should not exist : the range of licences demands this diversity . |
| 12 | My book shows that Modigliani was not that gloomy pessimist of morbid temperament who ‘ destroyed himself with as much care as he put into constructing his talent ’ , but that he never doubted his worth nor the imminence of success . |
| 13 | We 've also got you know that kind of a your national government what not that higher level . |
| 14 | Yet his curriculum vitae would be very much stronger if there were not that one-metre gap between the rival lines to stop him from imposing his physical presence on his opposite number in quite the same way as he did to such crucial effect upon Steve Cuttler in the 1989 series in Australia . |
| 15 | Not that Caribbean parents are totally without sporting involvements : there are rare exceptions in the form of Ray Tabi 's father whom he disowned but still acknowledged as his ‘ first lead into boxing ’ ; and the father of heavyweight Howard Henlan had also been a boxer and was instrumental in stimulating his son 's interest . |
| 16 | It is not that redistributive taxation is wrong , or should not be a core part of any left programme . |
| 17 | Not that terrible sense of showing off . |
| 18 | Not that terrible assertion of the self , of what the self sees or imagines it sees or just sees in imagination . |
| 19 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 20 | To obtain power by embracing darkness , Kurtz deified himself in line with primitive belief ; ironically , Eliot 's speaker dresses in relics of forgotten ritual out of a sense of total impotence , wishing to avoid a horrid dusk : ‘ Not that final meeting/ In the twilight kingdom . ’ |
| 21 | Heber 's study , the Post said , ‘ revealed not that mental deficiencies are passed on genetically , but that mentally retarded mothers tend to create an environment that is less conducive to mental development than that created by slum neighbours of normal intelligence , ’ The New York Times told its readers : ‘ The Milwaukee Project , an experiment in intensive preschool education for ( potentially retarded ) children , has proved that they can be raised more than 30 test points higher than other children from the same environment and with the same type of mother . ’ |
| 22 | Remember also that the thesis is not that authoritative determinations are binding only if they correctly reflect the reasons on which they depend . |
| 23 | Not that buoyant optimism much better . |
| 24 | Is not that real success in higher education ? |
| 25 | This is one of the great roles for a black actor ( not that black actors in these days are not eligible to play practically any character in Shakespeare , with the exception of Desdemona ! ) . |
| 26 | The great fear of China 's leaders is not that western conspirators will weave more plots but that China 's people , enraged by corruption and scornful of slogans , will take to the streets , as they did last June , to demand instant solutions that the government can not possibly provide . |
| 27 | ‘ Not that any mistress talks much about money . |
| 28 | Yes , and she could tell a few tales as well , not that wild horses would drag them from me , not in a gnat 's eyeblink they would n't . ’ |
| 29 | Why can not that exceptional expense be met with exceptional funding ? |
| 30 | The wonder is not that social work and social work education are in such a mess , but that so much is being achieved , despite the difficulties . |