Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's English they wanted not Spanish on this tape . |
| 2 | If the foreigner is not dishonest at this first stage there is no need to ask the second question . |
| 3 | The two-fold test was : ( a ) The jury are to apply the " ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people " : if the accused is not dishonest by those standards he is not guilty . |
| 4 | I was not dishonest in any way . |
| 5 | Though the Laffer curve strictly refers only to overall tax level , and not that for any particular tax . |
| 6 | When the need arose to find a new lord lieutenant for East Sussex in succession to the Queen 's horseracing chum , the Marquess of Abergavenny , the name which emerged from Downing Street was not that of another grand county family but Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson , a retired naval engineering officer whose address , 74 , Dyke Road , Brighton , hardly hinted at rolling acres . |
| 7 | It is the size of the economy that matters , not that of some nominal trust fund . |
| 8 | The stunning realism that he offered was not that of any old son of an Irish barman from New York but more precisely his own realism , in part natural and in part perfected by the very conscious application of technique . |
| 9 | Not strange at all , of course , in economic terms , since the slacks and Pringle jumper brigade who make up the bulk of business in summer would n't take the Austin Maxi out of the car-port if there was even a remote chance of frost . |
| 10 | ‘ Not strange at all . |
| 11 | One group of problems is not specific to any organ system . |
| 12 | The descriptor is not specific to any language . |
| 13 | The the money is not specific to any |
| 14 | The directive included advisory regulations concerning building requirements , kitchen equipment , food waste , water supply , personal hygiene and production hygiene , but is not specific about those regulations or their implementation . |
| 15 | I 'm not sorry about that . ’ |
| 16 | We could think of the extremes of its swing to be called states A and B. We can see that the pendulum is not stable in either of these states . |
| 17 | In the table the value for continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis is not attributable to any of the source studies . |
| 18 | Peter Marsden , Inverclyde 's director of housing , said the decision not to fit the £5 alarms was not attributable to any single factor , although the council had to set funding priorities , such as keeping houses watertight . |
| 19 | ‘ There were tae things that were not normal about that flight . |
| 20 | Spontaneous gastric ulcers occur in genetically mast cell depleted mice and duodenal ulcer can occur spontaneously in autoimmune mice , but the physiological situation is not normal in either case and nor are these suitable comparisons with human ulcers . |
| 21 | Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members . |
| 22 | The huge quantity of works which are the responsibility of the Soprintendenza means that it is not possible for all restoration campaigns to be carried out by in-house staff . |
| 23 | One problem encountered was the expectation in some of these professions that newly qualified staff should ‘ rotate ’ to different medical specialties thereby gaining varied experience , a practice not possible for all the disabled professionals . |
| 24 | If the water did enter a person 's house they were usually able to move all of the furniture and possessions upstairs where they would keep safe and dry , but this was not possible for all the residents . |
| 25 | It is not possible for all the functions of the two desks to be done at one desk in reception . |
| 26 | It is not possible for all the Eurodollars in existence to be spent within the US . |
| 27 | It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it . |
| 28 | With the magazine deadline now passed , a tribute to Tom is not possible for this edition , but one will be included in the Winter 1993 edition published in January |
| 29 | For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather . |
| 30 | It is not possible for most horse owners to finely tune their horses diets , this is left to the nutritionists and even then this is not absolutely precise , after all we can not regularly analyse every horse owner 's grazing , or feed . |