Example sentences of "not some " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the brickbat that has been thrown at Pound from the first , and is thrown at him still , because of his unswerving attention to what makes poetry poetry , and not some other sort of discourse versified . |
| 2 | But why , in that case , could not some rugby have been shown on the Grandstand programme ? |
| 3 | It is the mystery of Creation , the God of all Jews not some new ‘ Christian ’ God , the God who is not a god but the mystery at the centre of all being who transcends all beings , He who Is , that hung in torment from the cross and died . |
| 4 | In the mainstream Christian tradition it is the human suffering of God ( of God , not some limited , changeable , process-god ) that redeems our agonised world . |
| 5 | A baby is not some final luxury item that consumers can afford ( although this is obviously how the Government views it ) . |
| 6 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 7 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 8 | Clearly the enemy in 1987 is not some new generation of rock dinosaurs ( Banshees , Cure , Cocteaus , Bunnymen ) but the puny underachievement and Luddite anorexia of REGRESSIVE ROCK . |
| 9 | Might not some echo of it reach her mind , so that she would know someone of hers had been near ; that she had not been deserted ? |
| 10 | This is not to deny that there were not some major setbacks . |
| 11 | The Bible has long been recognized as a composite work spanning many centuries , not some kind of monolithic whole , and whilst opinions differ widely as to the precise dating ( and methods of dating ) of its constituent parts , it remains the case that a book , or indeed a chapter , may lie in the received text next to a verse or chapter some several centuries removed in compositional/redactional terms from its neighbour . |
| 12 | That is , the material presented is not some kind of post hoc analysis imposed upon the texts in the light of present-day concerns , removed from the ancients ' own understanding of the laws in their original context . |
| 13 | Big Irish Tom had pulled down his shorts and grabbed his willy to show everyone that he was truly a boy and not some soppy little girl who fainted at the sight of turkey innards . |
| 14 | His elaborate codes , for instance , were not some joke or ‘ some childish code from Captain Midnight . |
| 15 | But they needed to be ‘ popular , truly popular , not some CIA-sponsored rag-tag bunch of ne'er-do-wells ’ , he said , getting surprisingly near the bone ; they needed to be ‘ vital ’ and ‘ competent ’ . |
| 16 | The passage was not some ghastly simile of war or territorial domination ( though heaven knows what the Iranians would have made of it ) , but just a pictorial explanation of the passage North said he read them next , from the third chapter of Galatians : ‘ Know ye therefore that they which are of faith , the same are the children of Abraham . ’ |
| 17 | And then : why do Libyans express their opposition to their government in this and not some other way ? |
| 18 | The road was real , was there , was not some lost myth in a witch-cursed forest . |
| 19 | In some ways the difficulty was not some ministers ' demanding social solutions to social problems above individual solutions , but the underlying extent of the cultural absorption by Nonconformists discussed above . |
| 20 | Maybe we Scots and Irish have paid a high price for our long memories , but who in Scotland or Ireland has not some attitude to the Great Hunger , or the Clearances , or just to a vague morass of names , Culloden and Robert the Bruce and Rebel Songs ? |
| 21 | It takes a moment to realise that it is not some pagan idol , but a head of Christ on the cross , that the spikes represent the crown of thorns and that in the wreckage of the ancient trunk a face has been carved . |
| 22 | By BEN FENTON WHATEVER is pushing women voters towards the Liberal Democrats , it is not some mysterious ‘ Ashdown Factor ’ , if the party 's female supporters in Richmond-upon-Thames are to be believed . |
| 23 | ‘ Intragenomic conflict ’ , one of the trendiest fields in biology , is not some anti-Darwinian mysticism , but an ultra-Darwinian and somewhat cynical view of how genes compete . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's not some groovy-looking person we 've picked out for the sake of it . |
| 25 | He is proud to call himself a ‘ Deadhead ’ — not some obscure Whitehall term of abuse , but the name given to fans of the Grateful Dead , an American rock band . |
| 26 | Might not some agency or other attempt to encourage farmers who employ labour to contribute a levy payable to those who accept , under suitable rules , a responsibility for training during employment ? |
| 27 | It is perhaps appropriate to remember that childbirth is not some minority interest . |
| 28 | What encourages children to read and thus to learn to read is not some ‘ intrinsic reward ’ like praise or high marks or a special treat , but being able to read . |
| 29 | The troops might be raw , Piatakov might be an ultra-Leftist , but the ship had to be built with the timbers that were available , not some hypothetical timbers that might one day become available . |
| 30 | It was as if I needed proof that your first letter was not some kind of trick and you were dead after all . |