Example sentences of "[be] not the [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These mannequins are not the glamourpusses of Vogue , but the strange girl next door of a Diane Arbus photograph . |
| 2 | Although libraries ( especially young peoples ' libraries ) are not the havens of quiet of folk myth , they can cater for such children if staff are trained to recognize and respect them . |
| 3 | These three limits to structuralism are not the marks of failure . |
| 4 | The numbers given in the boxes are not the numbers of leukaemia deaths as the presentation suggests — they are nearer to the total of all causes of death . |
| 5 | They 're very supportive , but they 're not the sorts of theatre where you want to open . ’ |
| 6 | She sat for the evening with a strange man 's hand inside her stocking , and yet it had not occurred to her that the laws of a disorganized school trip were not the laws of nature or of justice . |
| 7 | Cooks were not the instigators of winter sports holidays , that was the achievement of Henry Lunn , but they were the champions of winter sports for women . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not the days of flower power now , whatever you may think . |
| 9 | Whatever the Dersinghams had skimped on , it was not the accoutrements of death . |