Example sentences of "[not/n't] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spoken discourse , there is not the visual prompt of paragraph-initial line indentation to indicate a division in the discourse structure . |
| 2 | Unlike most of his contemporaries , Darwin realized that the human race was not the predictable end-product of a universal progressive trend . |
| 3 | This catalogue of pressures and constraints is not the entire story of my life as a lesbian involved in work with girls and young women . |
| 4 | You never find out about the water in the instrument systems until you are airborne and it will ruin that flight , if not the entire flying for that day . |
| 5 | For Lecercle , for instance , the Remainder , in its appearance as folk-etymology , is a reaction against the arbitrariness of the sign and is thus , we might say , " carnivalesque " ; equally , the matter of language is not one that can be finally brought under the rule of one sign alone , so it is polyvocal perhaps : " Language is not the systematic ordering of constants … it is a composite reality that is essentially heterogeneous " ( p. 184 ) . |
| 6 | Anyone in contact with scientists is aware how often general accounts of recent scientific work give the facts but not the mental attitude of the researchers . |
| 7 | She knew it was not the correct mode of address but she felt a little odd , outside reality , and was afraid she was about to dissolve into tears . |
| 8 | A quietly-spoken man , he is not the pushy type of manager who makes sure the sandwiches are folded properly backstage or that the plectrums are of the right elasticity . |
| 9 | The implication is that industrialisation was not the planned result of a dynamic , forward-thinking group but a reaction to a crisis ( Chilcote and Edelstein 1974 ) . |
| 10 | For the sort of interaction that we are referring to here is not the planned smashing of things . |
| 11 | Although he was a yearling and still below full weight , he had not the harassed look of most " outskirters " — that is , the rank-and-file of ordinary rabbits in their first year who , lacking either aristocratic parentage or unusual size and strength , get sat on by their elders and live as best they can often in the open — on the edge of their warren . |
| 12 | There must also have been a great number of ferns , lycopods and horsetails existing as understorey plants but also isolated in dense swards , There was not the wide-scale domination of conifers hinted by Benton which somewhat invokes a picture of foodless dark plantation-style forests . |
| 13 | It also raises the possibility that the younger children in Emerson 's task may indeed have understood that there is a directional component to the meaning of because , but that this was based on a grasp of causal direction and not the temporal priority for which Emerson was testing . |
| 14 | The key to Humphrey 's concept of consciousness is that sensation is not the passive reception of stimuli , but an active process in which the organism responds by sending messages to do something . |
| 15 | ( iv ) Individuals choose to belong to national groups ( even if the oppressing force reduces the range of choice to a very narrow one ) and do so as the selection of a strategy for action , not the passive recognition of some primordial ordering . |
| 16 | Death , for us , is the sorry end of the human story , not the mysterious prelude to a new one . |
| 17 | The burn of the nettle stings might fade , but not the burning heat of her body . |
| 18 | It was not the complete answer to the problem , and I doubt if anyone will find it , but it works better than anything else I know . |
| 19 | Loans , however are not the complete answer to the financial problems of technology-based firms that start up from scratch . |
| 20 | The " malice " , in the sense that the virulent criticisms were not the honest belief of their writer , lay in the description of her as " a middle aged star [ who ] can " t sing , her bum is too big and she has the sort of stage presence that jams lavatories … [ she ] looks just as ugly with make-up . " |
| 21 | Suffice to say , I was in street clothing at the time , looking , I 'd thought , the right if not the accurate side of forty , and Linal Haft , who plays my son , is three years older than I am . |
| 22 | They were in the Mollands ' house — not the modern Rectory at Champney Crucis but the Vicarage at Plumford ; old Hubert was still Senior Assistant Curate at St Clement 's . |
| 23 | This onslaught won financial concessions but not the decisive part in the colonization of New Zealand which the company sought . |
| 24 | However the Labour Party was not the decisive element in the situation and events in Europe were to change everything almost overnight . |
| 25 | It would seem that the real issue is not the imputed incoherence of general curricula , but the basic metaphors of higher education . |
| 26 | The use of translation is the most obvious but not the only problem in the transmission of what are cultural as well as intellectual texts . |
| 27 | Completeness , however , is not the only characteristic of assignment when it is combined with qualification . |
| 28 | Economic success is not the only test of national well-being ; but without it , a country — as we know to our cost — can become increasingly introverted , selfish and bitter . |
| 29 | Indigenization is not the only test of the existence of a transnational capitalist class , but it is certainly a critical one . |
| 30 | But then , he 's not the only drinker with that problem … |