Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] is not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Pace Miss Baye , ‘ Savage Nights ’ declares that AIDS is not a subject like any other . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 3041,3042 User is not an assessor of DC : — |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dietary cholesterol is not the ogre the experts once thought it was . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | THIS REVIEW IS NOT A TRACT OF POLITICAL DEMAGOGY . |
| 18 | Old Shallot is not a liar ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This instrument is not a Fender Strat , however ; I believe it 's a Höfner President or something similar . |
| 21 | these writers — like John Kenneth Galbraith and Senator Proxmire — argue that the military-industrial complex is not an inevitability ; it is a cancer on the body politic which Can be successfully expunged if the people so desire . |
| 22 | Slim Plan is not a bit like that — for more inside information , read what Cookery Editor Moyra Fraser has to say on page 7 . |
| 23 | An extensive treatment of this issue is not the concern of this book , and it is assumed that the reader has already made a study of it elsewhere , usually in some introductory study of economics . |
| 24 | This check is not a substitute for servicing . |
| 25 | Sappho is invoked purely as a predecessor in women 's poetry : sexual rivalry is not an issue . |
| 26 | In 1909 D. W. Griffith directed A Corner in Wheat for the Biograph Company and the New York Dramatic Mirror announced to its readers that ‘ this picture is not a picture drama , although it is presented with dramatic force . |
| 27 | But what is significant about this apparatus is not the range of administrative functions to be performed but , as Lenin repeatedly stressed , who performs them and how they are controlled . |
| 28 | This knowledge is not a matter of personal belief , but of a simple historical fact . |
| 29 | This development is not a fad , but has been an established trend indicated by objective demographic and food survey statistics . |
| 30 | At its simplest , sociobiology is arguing , then , that the central drive affecting individual and social behaviour is not the preservation of the individual but the maximisation of the individual 's genes into future generations . |