Example sentences of "[noun] [be] not the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VISUAL display units are not the radiation hazard some people would have you think , according to E. A. Cox , Her Majesty 's Principal Inspector at the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 2 | Speed is not the car builder 's over-riding need . |
| 3 | For women , in contrast , discontinuity is not the core experience , and relationships are not perceived as violent . |
| 4 | And now the main enemy is not the perpetuity rule , but fiscal legislation . |
| 5 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 6 | THE Rubik cube is not the Rubik cube the world over . |
| 7 | I must point out that the 11 tries against Ireland is not the record number of tries conceded by an IB country . |
| 8 | Meat is not the staple item in a chimp diet but a desirable extra . |
| 9 | Ms Radice correctly reasons that her constituency is not the art community , but Congress , which authorises and funds the endowment , and which represents the American people in toto . |
| 10 | Ben Nevis is not the killer mountain it is often represented to be in the popular press . |
| 11 | It is an interesting fact that the fastest-growing public expenditure programme under the Labour Government was not the health service , education or social services , but debt interest . |
| 12 | Primogeniture was not the inheritance system used by the bargemen for the successful bargemaster could provide openings for all his sons . |
| 13 | But the servant , though receiving wages , and therefore a domestic analogue to the worker whose employment defined the male bourgeois in the economy , was essentially quite different , since her ( or more rarely his ) main link with the employer was not the cash nexus , but personal , and indeed for practical purposes total , dependence . |
| 14 | We set ourselves to introduce a critical awareness of current misconceptions about language , to inform students of some differences between speech and writing , to make them aware that social and aesthetic evaluations of language are that , and nothing more ( however confidently pronounced ) and to sensitise them to some of the difficulties of pupils in English schools for whom English is not the mother tongue , or for whom their own English was a baffling unfamiliar variety . |
| 15 | What flew forth from the shattered bottle was not the ghost memory of a child , but something else . |
| 16 | But one fact was wrong : Kate Stone was not the supervising driver in the accident ; Claire Powell was . |
| 17 | He knew the name of the Mayor , and he knew why Battersby was not the be.at Grammar School . |