Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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1 Maybe they are only a crime problem and not the crime problem .
2 I am not a taxi driver and I do not have seven Cure albums .
3 I am not a city person and have never lived in a city in my life I represent a rural area , a hunting area , a hunting area erm I believe the terrier men from the some of them live in my area .
4 ‘ We 're not a drugs band and we 're prepared to fight for our beliefs . ’
5 ‘ I 'm only a rookie boss and no doubt some people will tell me it wo n't work .
6 I 'm already a mountain instructor and have worked at national centres and as a freelance guide .
7 The difficulty is that a recruitment system has to be both a production system and an information system , and this is what makes it so much more complex than personnel records .
8 A I band sizes are frequently a strain characteristic and inter-strain differences can be used , for example , to monitor for genetic contamination ( 16 ) .
9 , William ( 1903–1971 ) , bookmaker , was born in Birmingham 16 July 1903 , the second son and fourth of the eleven children ( there were also a twin son and daughter who died at birth ) of William Hill , journeyman coach-painter , and his wife Lavinia Knight , the daughter of a farmer , who also kept an inn on the border of Warwickshire and Leicestershire .
10 And she said er it 's only a lady owner and she knew her and , who lived in Burston , lived not far away so
11 Even so , it 's only a flesh wound and will heal in ten days or so .
12 On page one seven five you 've got how to check the circulation , after you 've put the bandage on to make sure it 's not too tight , it 's not stopping all the blood supply , press a fingernail if there 's only a finger nail and the , it should go white of course if you press it , then the blood should go back and it goes back pink again or an area of er skin , always check your circulation after you 've put your bandage on .
13 IntePlan is basically a diary/database program and although the sample supplied was a self-running demo it certainly seemed attractive .
14 You see it is only a routine matter and they will not be able to understand why I could n't get you to fill it in .
15 where potential deferred tax on a revalued asset has not been shown because the revaluation does not constitute a timing difference , the fact that it is not a timing difference and that tax has therefore not been provided should be shown .
16 Any increase in price per person as a result of a part cancellation eg. underoccupancy , is not a cancellation charge and is not covered by our insurance .
17 Any increase in price per person payable as a result of a part cancellation is not a Cancellation Charge and so is not covered by Norwich Union Insurance .
18 I ca n't remember I think it was Louise who br I went up to talk to her , and the question was , which of follow which of the following is not a swimming stroke and you have butterfly , breast stroke , bird crawl .
19 In The Austin Co of UK Ltd ( LON/91/1990 ) No 7981 the appellant reclaimed input tax on documents which contained many of the particulars required by reg 13(1) , but each of which also contained the words : ‘ This is not a tax invoice and must not be used for tax input tax credit purposes .
20 Each of them really turns around the theory that prior to birth the unborn child is not a persona juridica and , therefore , no duty of care can be or is owed to it .
21 There is a very sound reason for this in that depreciation is not a cash item and is one over which the departmental manager has little control .
22 Although in spreadsheets like 1-2-3 and SuperCalc you can type in an entry like Sep-11 this is just a text entry and so can not be used in arithmetic — which is the whole point of a spreadsheet like this .
23 If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two .
24 To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role .
25 To understand how to control your aura you must first realise that it is largely a thought emanation and as such , can easily be controlled by thought .
26 In many places of full-time residential training the organisation of worship is largely a student responsibility and some supervision and guidance in the choice of music appears to be given .
27 It 's not a lounge area and that I suppose it was behind the shop area .
28 Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative .
29 Yeah , I , I could say well that 's not a police issue and then forget about it but that 's not really a good response , ?
30 Putting it more simply , a racing program is always a programming error and may be considered broken .
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