Example sentences of "[adj] [am/are] not a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Not for Mr Goldin the folly of admitting , even temporarily , as New York 's mayor , Ed Koch , did last year , that , perhaps , in a province with a large pro-British majority , the British are not an occupying army after all . |
2 | These are not a direct source of constitutional law in the sense that they do not normally involve any change in domestic law ( see , however The Parlement Belge ( H.C. , 1879 ) ) . |
3 | Some able and highly motivated visually handicapped people develop sophisticated levels of hearing and touch that astound the fully sighted , but these are not an automatic compensation for poor vision , and there is considerable individual variation in these areas of competence . |
4 | DONs are mainly for big cities , and those are not an ideal locale for every enterprise ; manufacturing plants , for example , are clearly better sited where land is more plentiful . |
5 | 900 x 16 are not a practical proposition on a SWB they limit the lock and are just too big for the wheel arches . |
6 | Identical spellings for words that sound the same are not a real problem . |