Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They held that the architect 's giving of an interim certificate was not the decision of a dispute between the plaintiff and his builders and that there would need to be a dispute for the architect to qualify as an arbitrator : see Lord Reid at [ 1974 ] AC 737 H. ( For a discussion of the difference between experts and certifiers in construction contracts , see 7.4.2 . ) |
| 2 | That function was not the provision of wholesome food at fair prices . |
| 3 | Secondary action is action interfering with a contract of employment in one of the ways specified in section 13(1) where the employer under that contract is not a party to the trade dispute . |
| 4 | No , what blew against my ankles like tumbleweed that afternoon was not the crinkle of Mumm NV but the discarded skin of my former being , my beetle carapace , my sloughed and umber appurtenances . |
| 5 | ‘ and not having attached thereto a sidecar ’ A flat tubular framework attached to a motor bicycle with a wheel on an axle welded to that framework is not a sidecar for this purpose ( Cox v Harrison , [ l 968 ] 3 All ER 8 11 ) . |
| 6 | The European Parliament is not an institution which excites interest in voters , and the percentage of people who vote in European elections is very low . |
| 7 | In spite of the work of Noel O'Sullivan , W. H. Greenleaf , and Anthony Quinton the notion has persisted that Conservatism is not an ideology . |
| 8 | A transport policy which advocates private cars is not a policy which protects the environment . |
| 9 | I mean I I went in there yesterday , I think it was , or this morning erm he put wet shirts into the wardrobe admittedly with the doors open but that bedroom is not a bedroom that I like to get any dampness in at all , Brenda . |
| 10 | The wording of 72 ( contrasting ‘ states of consciousness ’ with ‘ dispositions ’ ) reminds one of what Gilbert Ryle says in The Concept of Mind , and the wording of 101 ( ‘ We can not separate his ‘ thinking ’ from his activity' ) of what he says in his contribution to The Human Agent but Ryle and Wittgenstein , it seems to me , agree only on the negative point , that thinking is not an accompaniment of speaking and acting . |
| 11 | Pace Miss Baye , ‘ Savage Nights ’ declares that AIDS is not a subject like any other . |
| 12 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 13 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 14 | These editorial policies are not the result of idiosyncratic requirements on the part of journal editors ; they are simply part of the disciplinary culture , which every aspiring academic has to pick up . |
| 15 | The Court of Appeal held that residential occupiers were not a class for the purpose of the offence of harassment created by the Rent Act 1956 ( McCall v Abelesz [ 1976 ] QB 585 ) . |
| 16 | She rose and the apron made a tissue-paper sound , ‘ And we have to bear in mind , Miss Thorne , that for many people a hospital of this kind is not the answer . |
| 17 | 3041,3042 User is not an assessor of DC : — |
| 18 | I would suggest to you , in short , that erm just as Locke 's labour theory of property is a theory is not a comprehensive theory about what constitutes a legitimate claim to own something but is really a theory about how private property comes to be legitimately created erm so his theory of social contract is not a theory about how we acquire political obligations , it 's a theory about how legitimate civil societies come to be established . |
| 19 | Dietary cholesterol is not the ogre the experts once thought it was . |
| 20 | Many Italian cantatas , notably those of Handel and of the mature Scarlatti , are prodigal in their use of different keys , and tonal unity is not a concern of Italian opera . |
| 21 | Interestingly , the largest structure in this formulation is not the exchange or transaction of the Birmingham School analyses , but a claim by one speaker which gives rise to fixed possibilities for moves of support or counter claim , in patterns referred to as context spaces . |
| 22 | Medieval Germany was not a nation but a collection of states of differing sizes which covered much of central Europe . |
| 23 | Fisher saw that this mind was not the grammarian or writer of Greek and Latin prose such as Cambridge liked , but was a meditative , half-philosophical mind , which might be better suited in the Oxford school . |
| 24 | This contest is not a contest as to who is to lead the party , but as to who is to appoint the leader of the party . |
| 25 | What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power , and power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages … this contest is not a contest as to who is to lead the party , but as to who is to appoint the leader of the party . |
| 26 | THIS REVIEW IS NOT A TRACT OF POLITICAL DEMAGOGY . |
| 27 | Old Shallot is not a liar ! |
| 28 | Seen in this light de-industrialisation was not the onset of a foreign disease but the unavoidable expiation of past neglect . |
| 29 | Clinicians need to be aware that this condition is not a rarity in later life but is a quite common cause of ill health and misery . |
| 30 | This instrument is not a Fender Strat , however ; I believe it 's a Höfner President or something similar . |