Example sentences of "and not [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will take more than one meeting and not all people are equally responsive . |
| 2 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 3 | Do n't let me kid you , it 's very , very hard grind and not many people would do it . |
| 4 | That station is supposed to be haunted by old Garrity who was that porter there in the old days , and not many people go near it in daylight , never mind after dark . ’ |
| 5 | We rarely see him and not many people know he is here . ’ |
| 6 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 7 | I had to pay the publisher to print the books , and not many people bought them . |
| 8 | Many things were different , and not many people remembered me . |
| 9 | But reception is poor and not many people watch it . |
| 10 | Even Downing Street had tank-proof gates these days , and not many people lost sleep over that . |
| 11 | ‘ I am a prostitute and a drug addict and not many people believe people like me . |
| 12 | Too much work and not enough people to do it . |
| 13 | The partner of the speechreader will take special care that the conversation remains ‘ one-to-one ’ and not three people talking together , which leaves the speechreader on a solitary island . |