Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Since there seems to be some doubt about the matter , it should be made clear that the High Court 's inherent jurisdiction in relation to children — the parens patriae jurisdiction — is equally exercisable whether the child is or is not a ward of court : see In re M. and N. ( Minors ) ( Wardship : Publication of Information ) [ 1990 ] Fam. 211 , 223G .
2 Now to my mind that is not a question of being a snooper , a nark or even being a policeman , er it is er er indeed if we look at section fifteen of the local government finance act of nineteen eighty two er it it 's quite interesting to see the the words used because the auditor is under a duty , amongst other things , to see that the accounts are prepared in accordance with regulations er made under the act er to see that proper practices that have been followed and to see that the body of accounts that have been audited have made proper arrangements f for securing economy , efficiency and effectiveness .
3 Any string that is not a member of this class is ungrammatical .
4 In his opening address welcoming delegates to the summit on Nov. 19 , President François Mitterrand of France said that " it is the first time in history that we witness a change in the depth of the European landscape that is not the outcome of a war or bloody revolution " .
5 In time it will be both understood and accepted as a disease that is not the fault of the sufferer and from which full recovery is possible .
6 Paradoxically , the disease concept ( that Chemical Dependency is a disease that is not the fault of the sufferer ) tends to be resisted by those who will happily accept " stress " or " depression " or " weak will " or " upbringing " as possible causes .
7 Paragraph B suggests that er we 're dealing with a report which proports to address er community leadership and representation that 's not the purpose of the report .
8 Sorry that 's not the motion of a piece of chalk , that 's the replacement of one piece of chalk by another .
9 And is n't the pitch of the roof rather higher nowadays ? ’
10 A contract of barter , i.e. where goods are exchanged for other goods — lacks this element and is not a contract of sale .
11 In keeping with the analogy , Campbell holds that the variations are ‘ blind ’ — that we come up with a particular hypothesis is not determined by our current experience , is independent of whether the hypothesis is in fact going to prove true or successful , and is not a correction of previous unsuccessful hypotheses .
12 the rationale for antitrust is essentially a device to provide legal checks to economic power , and is not a pursuit of economic efficiency as such .
13 And is not the thought of , say , blue different from the thought of green in some way which we may one day be in a position to describe , just as we are now able to describe the causal conditions for the experience green which is different from the experience of blue ?
14 One might do things out of a self-loving pride , but this is not benevolence ; and though a benevolent person may gratify himself , this is not what he is aiming at , and is not the principle of his action .
15 And is not the Church of England the best of all Christian churches ?
16 The main grist to the mill of policing was working-class youth , but the perennial conflict between youth and the police is one with ever-changing persona and is not the basis of political conflict .
17 These findings indicate an increase in colonic permeability that most probably represents a change in mucosal barrier function depending on the presence of inflammation , and is not the result of a primary epithelial defect .
18 And is not the creation of a complementary marine park said to be imminent ?
19 But is n't the middle of a recession a bad time to try and sell a business ?
20 ( But is n't the terror of expenditure without return the very epitome of bourgeois economic continence ? )
21 The editor passed the letter to a person whom he knew to be an ‘ outside broker ’ ( one who does Stock Exchange business but is not a member of the Exchange ) but whose honesty he had no reason to suspect .
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