Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workers are not just teachers or nursery nurses , their roles overlap and they are also more like friends than authority figures . |
| 2 | But I personally feel that these two books are not just blood and gore , for they both actually have deep , rather strange and mysterious story lines , and not the usual one of an horrific axe-murderer ! |
| 3 | Her options are not precisely heterosexuality and lesbianism , but rather seduction and chastity . |
| 4 | It means that there are not only data and/or information used the problem-solving process but expertise ( knowledge + experience ) and reasoning as well . |
| 5 | We might say that the Nun 's Priest represents a human character standing at the intersection of various areas of human activity and experience mirrored within the text , and that the important attributes of the construct that this character is are not least life and humanity themselves ; the real individual and communal life that has to compromise between animalistic anarchy ( i.e. the fabliau world ? — cf. |
| 6 | They are different , but they 're not necessarily right or wrong . |
| 7 | Cos they , they do n't play with that much conviction , well I mean suppose they 're not really musicians but sound a bit crap . |
| 8 | He grew , however , to see that many of the new movements were not seriously deviationist or dissident . |
| 9 | The problem here is not just possessiveness and failure to live up to the high ethical ideals proclaimed by a religion . |
| 10 | Note : Asymmetry is not necessarily chaos or limbo . |
| 11 | It is not only headings and topic sentences at the beginning of paragraphs which signal the directions in which an essay is progressing , however . |
| 12 | It is not only man and animal who are closely connected , mentally , at a subtle level , but all creatures , including man and man , or man and woman . |
| 13 | But it is not only bridies and gravy for which the Bow is famed . |
| 14 | It is not only religion and morality that are in question . |
| 15 | It is not only birdlife but wildlife such as reindeer and plantlife . |
| 16 | It 's not just boxing and brute strength you 've got to do your homework . |
| 17 | And it 's not just Cancer and Heart Disease and Child Abuse and the Homeless and the Disabled — all of them in the utmost need of support . |
| 18 | And it 's not just father and son who are on opposite sides . |
| 19 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 20 | It 's not exactly techno but techno is going through the ‘ Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps , Please ’ phase that punk went through . |
| 21 | There was not even tension or anxiety . |
| 22 | The business of Eurame was not just drugs and cash , however . |
| 23 | And she had bloomed and flowered beneath a touch that she sensed deep in her innermost self was not simply skill and experience , but a kind of homage to womanhood . |
| 24 | Darwinism , social or otherwise , was not merely science but ideology , even before it was formulated as such . |