Example sentences of "[be] not every " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not every woman ! ’ |
| 2 | Well I 'm not every day that I eat the double . |
| 3 | It depends where you were not every State does . |
| 4 | It is not every day that an actor gets eaten in a movie . |
| 5 | The underlying point is that it is not every act of provocation which should be allowed to reduce murder to manslaughter , but only those serious enough to unbalance the behaviour of a person with reasonable self-control . |
| 6 | Clearly it is not every year that the government introduces massive changes to social security legislation and the IPG would not expect an exercise of this size again for many years . |
| 7 | IT IS not every day , at my age , that I am asked to go into a dark cupboard with a man , so I was both flattered and cautious on doing so . |
| 8 | It is not every trick producing evidence against an accused which results in unfairness . |
| 9 | Thus it is not every appropriation which falls within the section but only an act which answers the composite description . |
| 10 | It is not every failure to comply with law or every constitutional and non-constitutional short cut which adds up to an approach to powers which give rise to questions of legitimacy . |
| 11 | ‘ Is not every man in this land our servant ? ’ he demanded . |
| 12 | But it is not every image that succeeds in suggesting something of the thrill of the hunt as well as curiosity . |
| 13 | It is not every year that the Regional Railways Manager ( East Midlands and Midline ) and the Public Affairs Manager of Centro put their heads on the travelling public chopping-block . |
| 14 | Is not every child whose parents are on income support entitled to a free school meal ? |
| 15 | ‘ It is not every week a side gets to meet the reigning world champions and I would have thought Andy Roxburgh would have got more support from his clubs . |
| 16 | Molly is not every woman , or indeed any woman . |
| 17 | Of course , it 's not every day they find Dick Whittington sitting on the steps outside . |
| 18 | And I dare say you 're disappointed about it , because it 's not every day that an out-island lad gets offered that sort of money , is it now ? |
| 19 | Because it 's not every day , not even every decade , that a new car appears which bucks so many trends and owes so little to prevailing thinking . |
| 20 | He 's a friend of the family , and although I was surprised to see him , Mum explained that he 'd come to take a few photographs of me for the family album — after all , it 's not every day you become a teenager . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not every man who can say he 's been frigged over his own office desk , is it ? ’ |
| 22 | It 's not every day a little girl falls into our steam engine ! ’ |
| 23 | It 's not every day a young woman pulls a gun on a burglar . |
| 24 | It 's not every day that you come close to playing God . |
| 25 | After all it 's not every day you get caught up in a paradigm shift . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not every day that a man gets up and finds one of the most gorgeous creatures in the western hemisphere spooning in the cornflakes at the breakfast table , ’ said Leo . |
| 27 | At Chorley , Manager Tony Willis said , ‘ It 's not every day a branch celebrates such an anniversary so we intend to make the most of it ! ’ |
| 28 | Well , it 's not every day , is it ? |
| 29 | ‘ After all , ’ said the Prince with a wave of his hand , ‘ it 's not every day that he gets called on by both Royalty and the Head of the Secret Police . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not every day that an heir to the throne gets involved in something like this . ’ |