Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and size are not normally functions of performance ! |
| 2 | It is worth emphasising that the technical and vocational aims and objectives are not simply by-products of history teaching and study but are an essential part of the historical method . |
| 3 | The differences are not simply ones of climate and agricultural potential , but also of land tenure patterns , with a very specialized form of tenure called crofting ( 2 ) predominating in the north and west . |
| 4 | Similarly , we might consider whether educational qualifications or length of service are not also components of pay scales in Western companies . |
| 5 | National Trust gardens , then , are not just oases of beauty and tranquillity or examples of horticultural skills and imaginative design ; they are living libraries where , armed with a good reference book and a sense of adventure , one can roam through the world at large . |
| 6 | We are now beginning to realise that we are not just part of nature , we are inextricably related to nature . |
| 7 | In this view , teachers , like other people , are not just bundles of skill , competence and technique ; they are creators of meaning , interpreters of the world and all it asks of them . |
| 8 | All of us in the European socialist movement in the European trades union movement insists that employees are not just units of production , but are entitled to rights at work across the European community . |
| 9 | The mass media are not only instruments of power but , in terms of content , they are wedded to people with power or of popular acclaim ( cf the traditional criteria for news ) . |
| 10 | Structures of social relationship are not only structures of indebtedness , they are also structures of power . |
| 11 | But when such rifts occur , they are not necessarily evidence of lack of love ; they are more often due to the temporary emotional instability of the mourners , and usually heal swiftly , family unity being restored as the grief is worked through . |
| 12 | At this point the social worker introduced the notion of emotional reasoning , which suggests that ‘ feelings of guilt are not necessarily evidence of guilt ’ . |
| 13 | It is only now that men and women are beginning to realize that representative institutions are not necessarily guardians of freedom but can themselves become engines of tyranny . |
| 14 | ‘ ( They ) are not necessarily men of judgement . ’ |
| 15 | A lump , abnormal bleeding or a change in a wart or mole are not necessarily symptoms of cancer , but they should be checked out , so consult your doctor without delay and avoid unnecessary worry . |
| 16 | They are a I mean , quite honestly these courses are these things erm they 're not gon na do them you know , they 're not just sort of fairy things you 've got quite a bit of erm thinking to do and and so on and they 're pretty exhausting ! |
| 17 | Er you probably do n't do it erm you know er so brazenly probably the back of your mind but again key staff , you are key staff er yeah if you actually prepare somebody to take over your job when you 're not there sort of thing . |
| 18 | Perhaps the papers must be examined twice by two different examiners in different parts of the country ; the marks must be sent in to the central body by a certain date ; there may be not only scores of examination papers but hundreds , each of them containing the attempts of several questions . |
| 19 | They were responsible for the complete show , which was why stories of stars giving notes to other actors or ordering changes in sets and costumes were not just examples of megalomania , but the desire to maintain the overall standard of whatever production they put their names to . |
| 20 | As the judge so rightly said , his were not merely crimes of theft but of violence against elderly people . |
| 21 | They were not only evidence of disagreement amongst abolitionists but perceived by contemporaries to have different religious and political characteristics . |
| 22 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 23 | The CSO 's new director , Bill McLennan , said the changes were not only part of general tidying up operation to standardise distribution but also to prevent leaks . |
| 24 | The middlemen who organized supplies of these crops for European traders were not only accumulators of capital but also invested in new opportunities , such as that created by the demand for cocoa in the 1890s . |
| 25 | North listened to this impassively ; when it was over his eyes filled with tears , but these were not necessarily tears of compunction . |
| 26 | The notion that disciplines , being not only bodies of knowledge but bodies of people , might develop their own norms and patterns of beliefs , attitudes or behaviours , which constitute a kind of sub-culture within the general academic milieu , was originally put forward by Gaff and Wilson ( 1971 ) but has been most thoroughly explored recently by Becher ( 1989a ) . |
| 27 | can a radically different work still be carried on under a single heading or department when there is not just diversity of approach but more serious and fundamental differences about the object of knowledge ( despite overlapping of the actual material of study ) ? |
| 28 | It is not simply ideas of fairness that move the public , but a desire for representative government . |
| 29 | In the second place , possession is not merely evidence of ownership , but ( subject to the rights of the owner ) is itself and for its own sake entitled to legal protection . |
| 30 | It can not be explained on the grounds that ordinary life is just as tragic ( art is not merely imitation of life ) or by reference to moral feelings or pity and fear . |