Example sentences of "and [not/n't] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comprehensive reorganization in the 1950s was therefore in Oxfordshire a pragmatic and local , and not yet a political , issue . |
| 2 | They discussed the rudiments of the Charleston , that still over-sophisticated exercise in dancing , a world apart from the slow foxtrot and not yet a familiar of Irish Hunt Balls . |
| 3 | In extremity , with nowhere to go , and not even a believed theory to wear or hold his mind 's hand ( ‘ what will you run away with ? ’ ) , |
| 4 | No reply and not even a hint of a smile . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 7 | ‘ It was a feeling of being suspended — it was not a negative feeling and not even a loss to be mourned , but I just could not see a way ahead . |
| 8 | There was complete silence and not even a breath of wind disturbed the peace . |
| 9 | The Flag Cichlid is Mesonauta insignis , but the American Flag fish is quite different , and not even a Cichlid . |
| 10 | ‘ And not even a Corbett . ’ |
| 11 | The shoemaker 's daughter was pretty enough but poorly dressed with a Welsh shawl over her shoulders and not even a hat to cover her hair . |
| 12 | Fazal Mahmood ( 12 for 99 ) and Mahmood Hussain were the Waqar and Akram of their day — though dissimilar in method , being orthodox seamers — and not even a second-innings 7 for 56 by Wardle could save the Old Country . |
| 13 | No calculated glances , no abrupt addresses , no stratagems , just the easy politeness , he thought , of the worldly gentleman and not even a sly request for a hot stone or a late candle to his room . |
| 14 | A light touch and not even a mouse could have scuttled through that ballroom without setting off the alarm all over the house — and the city . |
| 15 | When he 'd arrived home there had been nothing to eat and not even a bed of his own . |
| 16 | But give him his due , he does not give up for a scratch or two , and not even a dagger could hold him off for ever . ’ |
| 17 | The model for Marx himself was the Paris Commune of March-May 1871 , though he subsequently dismissed it as merely an uprising , and not even a socialist one ( Lichtheim 1964 , pp. 112–21 ) . |
| 18 | After a brief goodnight and not even a peck on the cheek he looked down , then said , ‘ I 'll be in touch some time , Sarella . ’ |
| 19 | Oh , the S backwards , the L backwards , the backwards and not even a I in there . |
| 20 | It is all around , all of the time , and not even an interpretation of another but similar society , ‘ at home ’ in what Hastrup ( 1987 ) has called a ‘ parallel culture ’ . |
| 21 | And not even an air raid warning to send them into the cellars . |
| 22 | We made it clear that what we wanted was a better social security system and not just a cheaper one . |
| 23 | Wesleyan colleges were established as theological training centres but Baptist and Congregational colleges , because of their origins as dissenting academies , still had a bias towards giving a general arts education and not just a theological training . |
| 24 | Running is a part of my life and not just a way to prepare for races . ’ |
| 25 | This will ensure that the market-place of ideas , which politicians watch so closely , will have all , and not just a few , stall-holders of the truth . |
| 26 | Either way , astronomers are regarding it as a fascinating astronomical object and not just a recordbreaker . |
| 27 | Baths were mandatory and not just a lazy soaking but a good scrubbing with carbolic soap . |
| 28 | Now that the law embraced the principle of what lawyers called cessio bonorum — yielding up of goods — some thought imprisonment should be regarded as punishment and not just a way of preventing the debtor absconding . |
| 29 | The justification for selecting the variable with the largest penalty implicitly assumed that the penalty gave a useful estimate of the decrease in objective function value and not just a bound . |
| 30 | The point here , I think , is that if the latter is to be an ability , and not just a performance repertoire , then it has to be based on the internalization of systemic knowledge as a communicative resource . |