Example sentences of "[be] not [subord] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not because the farm worker is any more of an individualist per se than his industrial counterparts — whatever the stereotypes — but because the circumstances surrounding the farm worker render individual action , rather than collective mobilization , the only realistic alternative for the majority of those working on the land . |
| 2 | Erm well what I , what happens , I think that 's good , it 's act it 's not , it 's not inside because it 's encapsulated , it 's not inside because it 's held in there by the socket joint if I draw , draw you a picture , it 's not because the socket joint is so tight it ca n't fall out , is that what you 're saying to me ? |
| 3 | It was not because the rating system was bad , but because of the way in which the rating system was being carried out , attacking certain areas of domestic property , and , because the English had not carried out a revaluation since 1973 , Scotland got out of line . |
| 4 | It was not until the Home Office called the tribunal chairmen together to clarify the guidelines that the ratio of Bs to Cs began to fall . |
| 5 | By the 1870s several public schools had their own cadet or rifle corps , though within the schools it was not until the Boer War that they achieved real popularity . |
| 6 | Gurney 's songs began to reach publication from 1920 , but it was not until the Oxford University Press issued two volumes of twenty songs in 1938 that his true stature could be appreciated . |
| 7 | Local authorities have had powers of this nature for many years ( the origin was the 1932 Planning Act ) , but it was not until the property boom of the early 1970s that they became widely used . |
| 8 | Thus it was not until the AMS technique had been perfected that a fragment of the linen could be removed for dating . |