Example sentences of "not an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Application may only be made by a foreign lawyer , i.e. a person who is not an English ( or Welsh ) solicitor or barrister but who is a member , and entitled to practise as such , of a legal profession regulated within a jurisdiction outside England and Wales . |
| 2 | All WYSIWYG here in Quattro Pro 4 — not an add-in in sight . |
| 3 | It is not an hour in which a pupil sits learning what the tutor has to teach . |
| 4 | I identified her at the mortuary not an hour since . ’ |
| 5 | Finally seeing two Sarahs , he staggered into the seat vacated by Pat Johnstone not an hour ago . |
| 6 | It 's not an hour 's walk . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Not an hour after we arrived . |
| 8 | Well it 's only fifteen thirty five now so Oh it is two hours you get for the er that 's right , it 's not an hour and a half , it 's two hours you get is n't it ? |
| 9 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 10 | and to each set they 'd be any thing up to ten sub set questions , so er he says do what you can in er the hour , well it 's not an hour , but it 's fifty minutes |
| 11 | Why are images of lust considered sinful , when those of avarice , gluttony , envy and wrath raise not an eyebrow ? |
| 12 | Here what is transposed is not an affix at all , but just a syllable . |
| 13 | ‘ I am not an artist . |
| 14 | The fact remains , however , that , although Thomas Henry is not an artist of the stature of Sir John Tenniel , Richmal Crompton 's William stories seem as incomplete without Henry 's illustrations as the Alice books without Tenniel 's . |
| 15 | Julia is not an artist , except in the kitchen ; but she has something of her creator 's buoyancy of mind , as well as her loathing of artificial sociability . |
| 16 | And this can obviously be done by any intelligent teacher who is not an artist . |
| 17 | Anything short of that , then you arc not an artist . |
| 18 | Daine 's a Dreamer , but he 's not an artist . |
| 19 | The transformation of Labour is not an invention of Peter Mandelson ; it has been delivered by Mr Kinnock himself . |
| 20 | The combination of cheese and apples is not an invention of the north of England , but the merging of rich Wensleydale with sharp apple almost certainly is . |
| 21 | As a result he did a French translation of The Happy Hypocrite which was published in 1904 by the Mercure de France , illustrated with a caricature of Boulestin by Max ( Boulestin had some difficulty in convincing the Mercure 's editor that Max Beerbohm actually existed and was not an invention of his own ) . |
| 22 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
| 23 | In a company of five surveyors , all of whom hold shares and are also directors , the question of whether or not an individual may allege ‘ prejudicial ’ conduct by the others will depend on whether the plaintiff has suffered harm as a member . |
| 24 | The Council may provide that the provisions of any Codes of Practice promulgated by it shall be available to and shall be taken into account by the investigating and disciplinary bodies and , if appropriate , the appeals committee in determining whether or not an individual on the Register has failed to comply with the Rules of Conduct or is otherwise liable to disciplinary action pursuant to the Charter . |
| 25 | He did not carry the gong with which he had been presented as player of the tournament but Fiji 's captain Waisale Serevi — the nation having defeated the district of Suva 26-0 in the final — is not an individual who requires a calling card . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ he said , ‘ because you 're not an elephant . ’ |
| 27 | However , a small bag of water containing all the different kinds of proteins — perhaps 10,000 to 100,000 kinds — that the genes of an elephant can code for is not an elephant , and would not turn into an elephant . |
| 28 | Although the outward appearance of a Joni painting is convincing , and analysis of the materials is not an indicator of his authorship , on further examination there are numerous give-aways . |
| 29 | Well , Niki was not an Italian . |
| 30 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |