Example sentences of "[adj] is not a [noun sg] about " in BNC.

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1 Predictably , ‘ This Is Not A Song ’ is not that simple : for every slice of strings added by producer Edwyn Collins , there 's a line like ‘ This is not a song about animals ’ .
2 If you disagree , try arguing with Paul after his 37th run-through of ‘ This is not a song about old James Dean ’ while standing by a three million foot drop off a mountain top .
3 Hilarious on the horribly awful side of mountaineering , this is not a story about snotty rich kids : life is the better for meeting wild-eyed wanderers like these .
4 This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other .
5 This is not a book about the whole topic of miasmas and disease , and it certainly does not cover the entire ‘ pre-industrial age ’ : it is a study of a single collection of reports by doctors and public health inspectors in early 17th-century Tuscany .
6 But , as I said before , this is not a book about the ingenuity of computer programmers .
7 but this is not a book about diet for I am neither a dietitian nor a cook and many good books already exist .
8 Although Hubble 's work ( with subsequent numerical amendment ) has been the principal empirical basis of cosmology , this is not a book about cosmology but about astronomical observation beyond the Galaxy .
9 This is not a book about dieting , so I am not going to go into the subject in great depth .
10 But this is not a book about donkeys or even about faith , at least not directly .
11 This is not a book about theoretical astronomy , but I must say something about the way in which a star radiates , because it is very much part of the overall story .
12 This is not a book about graduate employment , on which a number of important analyses have appeared in the last decade ( Lindley 1981 ; Roizen and Jepson 1985 ; Harland and Gibbs 1986 ; Tarsh 1988 ; Brennan and McGeevor 1988 ; Boys and Kirkland 1988 ; Boys et al .
13 The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out .
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