Example sentences of "not [indef pn] that [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not one that would stand up in court . ’ |
| 2 | Certainly not one that would take seven months to finish . ’ |
| 3 | The ‘ patchwork pieces ’ saga was not one that would quietly die . |
| 4 | Certainly not one that can be dredged out of a half-filled glass of flat tonic water . |
| 5 | Morrison 's epitaph on London Labour before the war , therefore , is not one that can be applied to West Ham . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | But while it is potentially a big market , it is not one that will arrive tomorrow . |
| 8 | it 's not one that will inspire me with erm with , with great kind of nationalistic fervour as might have happened in the past when , when you look at nationalistic movements , so erm presumably we 're looking at a range of behaviour which goes from extreme fanatical group membership to relatively weak identification with a group but really does n't to anything else but saying you know if you ask me what I 'll say I was British . |
| 9 | Brown doubts Microsoft 's pledge to reduce it to 8Mb in the final release will produce a very usable system , certainly not one that could run multiple applications concurrently . |
| 10 | Not a happy marriage , and not one that could take on the extra burden of a weeping widowed friend . |
| 11 | It was a status that was passed on by inheritance , not one that could be acquired by merit or work . |
| 12 | Warlike Shakespearean speeches have no place in the rugby locker room and the xenophobic message within is not one that should be transmitted to players and spectators alike ! |
| 13 | The cordoned-off area , quite common in Russian hotels when special guests were being entertained and there-fore not something that would cause suspicion , was served by its own lift from the lobby . |
| 14 | Erm the unstable bladder was present more often amongst our obstructed group although erm this was not something that would distinguish the obstructed patients from the non-obstructed . |
| 15 | Science , as the seventeenth century traditionally understood it , was not something that could result from activities of the sort advocated by the Royal Society . |
| 16 | A big pie was not something that could be made in a field and cooked on a bonfire , it would require skill and expertise in the use of large ovens and these were available as they were used by the local manufacturers of earthenware pipes : |
| 17 | This was not something that could be allowed , not by anybody 's standards . |
| 18 | There is every reason to suppose that changes such as those in Fig. 24.4 are intrinsic to the dynamics , not something that could be eliminated if only one had better control of the apparatus . |
| 19 | ‘ Talent is a rare thing , not as universal as people seem to think — creativity is not something that can be taught , ’ she says . |
| 20 | Freedom is not something that can be asserted in opposition to law ; it is the residue of conduct permitted in the sense that no statute or common-law rule prohibits it . |
| 21 | The economic strength of society is not something that can be peeled off and thought of separately from the quality of the life of those who are members of that society . |
| 22 | I do not believe that the pursuit of happiness is a possibility : happiness is not something that can be chased and captured . |
| 23 | Whether it will prove a worthwhile exercise is also not something that can be answered with a definitive yea or nay , but the potential is definitely there from a design with an unusually bold and coherent presentation , and which lacks many of the subtle compressions and colourations of big box speakers . |
| 24 | It is surely a question of maintaining an appropriate balance , and is not something that can be taken for granted . |
| 25 | But it is also emphasized that professional competence is not something that can or should be taken for granted , and that the intimate knowledge of the carer-counsellor can often be as useful as the most vaunted professional . |
| 26 | It is [ he added , engagingly ] quite clear to me that an organisation … of this character is not something that can be handled by the ordinary … machinery or either the British Civil service or the British military machine . |
| 27 | You can tell , Mr Millet , it 's not something that can be hidden . |
| 28 | In addition , it is not something that can be delegated and employees can not escape their responsibility by delegation . |
| 29 | It 's not something that can be changed , like maybe management but erm it 's it 's just that , you know , to be careful , that if you 're doing these things , there 's some things which , I think women can do , and a lot of things that women should be doing , maybe there 's other things which just are n't there for them just now . |
| 30 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |