Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [not/n't] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean this at the undergraduate level this is not just an issue which the women students are concerned about . |
| 2 | On the other hand we can decide that this is not properly an intervention at all , but the paraphrased rendering of an insight about language whose formulation belongs not to de Man but to Proust . |
| 3 | An extensive debate about the fidelity of copying DNA sequences by Taq polymerase has been published , but this is not usually an issue except in highly specialised applications , such as the study of variant clinical isolates of HIV . |
| 4 | This is not merely an artifact caused by the classification system but probably results from progressive immune dysfunction as indicated by a decrease of CD4 + cells and of the CD4/CD8 ratio in the peripheral blood correlating with the stage of disease and the presence of gastrointestinal infections . |
| 5 | This is not necessarily an increase in your workload : drafting and redrafting allows lower-intensity and less stressful work than packing everything into a single and decisive act of composition . |
| 6 | ‘ Getting lost is n't exactly an act of God , is it ? ’ |
| 7 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 8 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
| 9 | I 'm fearfully busy — and that 's not just an excuse . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah but I mean that 's not necessarily an issue I mean what did she do for B M W cars ? |