Example sentences of "not an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This not an invariable pattern for monographs , but readers can usually expect that the central figure of a book will receive prominence at the expense of any other artists . |
| 2 | Above all acting is not an intellectual occupation , though a good mind is needed to respond imaginatively and practically to the work of authors and directors . |
| 3 | Even the interview system is not an ideal one — once again you 're having to sell yourself — and if you 're a character actor like I am I can not show myself without being somebody else . |
| 4 | Not an object to be made . |
| 5 | Art is not a machine , he wrote , and it is not an organism . |
| 6 | Not an object to be looked at and admired . |
| 7 | Strong sense of an object , he wrote , not an image . |
| 8 | Sense of its presence , he wrote , but not an oppressive presence ( as with For Micah , for example ) . |
| 9 | Angus Crichton-Miller , managing director of the Rank Organisation 's holidays and hotels division and a member of the study group said : ‘ It is not an efficient system to have such changes between busy and quiet periods and it would be better if we could flatten prices over a longer season , rather than have such high-peak-season prices . ’ |
| 10 | So if the numbers are not an infallible guide to good stainless steel cutlery , what is ? |
| 11 | That moustache is not an English moustache , the flower in the button-hole is from some foreign field and I fancy he does not care for his pickled egg . |
| 12 | ‘ We are not an hotel . ’ |
| 13 | Not an effective method on its own . |
| 14 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 15 | Here was not an authority-figure , of school or university or civic discipline ; still less a relation who could ‘ pull rank ’ by virtue of family influence or purse string manipulation . |
| 16 | His attention was caught by the National Bank of Greece — not an inappropriate interest for one who had composed ‘ The Song Of The Hellenist ’ , and was drawn to Judaism 's most persistent ‘ enemy ’ through it . |
| 17 | Occurrence with an ‘ e ’ not an ‘ a ’ . |
| 18 | Surprise ( in the sense studied in Baillargeon 's experiment — passive capture of visual attention ) is not an action so it can not tell us about central system function . |
| 19 | It began to seem a possibility that an external observer would be able to predict whether or not an apparently relaxed subject was forming visual images . |
| 20 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 21 | Not an old movie star but someone new and less defined , whose character melted into a dozen different actresses . |
| 22 | It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise . |
| 23 | Though not an out-and-out cheapskate , he was thought the kind of man who would try to squeeze a shilling into a pound by whatever means . |
| 24 | Moreover it was not an under-used white elephant in the manner of Kingmoor yard in Carlisle ; traffic levels remained comparatively healthy right up to the end . |
| 25 | The Fish seemed amply big enough to bivouac in ( it even sported the route 's only bolts ) and the walls above looked … well , not an evening stroll . |
| 26 | Not an ideal kennel dog |
| 27 | Not an occupied man . ’ |
| 28 | ( Recall ‘ not an occupied man ’ from the notebooks . |
| 29 | Not an allegory , just a leaf , one leaf . ' |
| 30 | But in its very nature a possibility is not an outcome . |