Example sentences of "not a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's property owned by a public body not a private company . |
| 32 | I 'm all in favour of the Government seeking to get the best value for money , but HMSO is not a private company . ’ |
| 33 | It is understood that SFA regards an agreement as in writing for this purpose even if its terms are set out in a terms of business letter accepted merely by conduct ( which is especially important where the intermediary is not a private customer ) . |
| 34 | Any customer who is not a private customer ( as defined ) is a non-private customer . |
| 35 | The typical individual who is not a private customer because he is carrying on investment business is a " local " on a futures exchange ; ( 2 ) Small business investors , if they are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business . |
| 36 | Anyone who is not a private customer is a non-private customer . |
| 37 | My dear girl , I 'm a writer , not a private investigator . |
| 38 | This freedom to advance was not a private matter . |
| 39 | This is not a private prison as such — it is a public building built and run by taxpayers ’ money . |
| 40 | ‘ The Tube is not a personal taxi service . ’ |
| 41 | Alina 's just a guest in the house , she 's not a personal masseuse . ’ |
| 42 | It is not a personal matter . |
| 43 | This is not a personal matter , it 's a matter that concerns your business integrity . |
| 44 | ’ I trust it is a business and not a personal matter ? ’ |
| 45 | Surely tearing up the Pope 's picture was meant as a symbolic gesture , not a personal affront . |
| 46 | He reached into a drawer down to his left and produced a cheque-book , one of the big fat jobs that meant it was a company one , not a personal account . |
| 47 | I did later show Rowse an essay of mine , but this was not a personal onslaught . |
| 48 | However , this type of internal cohesion is not a necessary feature of the structural unit we have described as the paratone . |
| 49 | Moreover , ‘ structural ’ relations between them can be clarified , by showing for instance that this computation is or is not a necessary prerequisite or accompaniment of that one . |
| 50 | A lengthy public enquiry probed the cause of the disaster and attributed blame to certain officials , but blame is not a necessary part of this story . |
| 51 | Stylistic categories are more complex phenomena which are often difficult to define , but which are assumed to be describable in terms of linguistic categories , although they are not a necessary part of the description of a language . |
| 52 | Apart from the statue within , sculpture is not a necessary part of this design , but it is often added , always in certain set positions : akroteria , freestanding statues above the three angles of the gable ; and reliefs on the metopes and in the pediments . |
| 53 | It is not a necessary part of the design of a Russian bomb that it should have detailed , one-to-one correspondences with specific details of an American bomb . |
| 54 | Though most cases of conversion at common law fall within the categories of taking or abusing possession , such acts on the part of the defendant are not a necessary element in liability provided he has dealt with the goods in a way inconsistent with the plaintiff 's rights , such as signing a delivery order for goods which are delivered under that order . |
| 55 | So to stop it being a through route , because it 's not part it 's not a necessary route for private cars to go down , and it is , of course , extremely important because the entrance to the bus station is off that route . |
| 56 | What I referred to previously as the comprador mentality , the slavish attachment to things foreign , is not a necessary component of the ideology of the TCC , but it does occur ( see Chan , 1987 , ch.18 ) . |
| 57 | This keen and ever growing group within our sport needs regular social golf , competition play and the opportunity to show that club membership is not a necessary requirement for good manners and golf etiquette . |
| 58 | He concluded , however , that it was not a necessary precondition of a restitutionary order under section 6(2) or of a remedial order under section 61(1) that the person against whom the order was made , whether the contravener or the person ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the contravention , should have received the money or property ordered to be restored to the investor . |
| 59 | Thus , quite justifiably , Marx and Engels used anthropological examples to show that private property or the State is not a necessary institution for human beings . |
| 60 | They are not a necessary ingredient . |