Example sentences of "[is] not [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is not beyond the mental capabilities of anyone with a reasonably well-formed mind to learn how to play an instrument — even badly . ’ |
| 2 | Whatever may be the attitude of any individual teacher , if s/he does not receive adequate support from the school in implementing change , s/he is likely to give up , or decide that the innovation is not worth the extra time and energy required . |
| 3 | It will provide you with two sides of an A4 sheet giving you very little detail about the property except that it is or is not worth the agreed purchase price . |
| 4 | The groundsman is not under the present LMS scheme . |
| 5 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 6 | It recognises that the newer and better way to govern the law-breaker is not through the expiring system of the cell and the lash , but rather through the mind and the heart ( Bridgwater , 1909 , p. 9 ) . |
| 7 | The fact that he demonstrated his interest in those eight cases , emphasised them and talked so wildly about them , shows that his concern is not with the genuine asylum seeker , but with diminishing the respect that this country should hold for people who are in desperate trouble and whom , in better and more self-confident days , hon. Members of all parties would have been in favour of helping . |
| 8 | ( b ) If the panel member is not with the same firm then reselection is by way of reapplication . |
| 9 | ( b ) If the panel member is not with the same firm then reselection is by way of reapplication . |
| 10 | ‘ The problem is not with the indigenous travellers as we used to know them , ’ said councillor Valerie MacIver , a member of the Secretary of State 's travellers ' committee . |
| 11 | In arguing this he not only collapses the specificity of consumption but also misrepresents the relationship between the ‘ individual ’ and the ‘ social ’ in Marx 's argument , for it is not for the individual consumer to recognize himself in another individual 's product anyway , but to recognize the socially-imprinted character and meaning of the product … and so to find in it the satisfaction of ‘ need ’ ( ibid : 30 ) . |
| 12 | In particular , he could say that it is not for the Conservative Party or anybody else to determine the budget options of Parliament . |
| 13 | If it is not for the full amount of the debt , why is n't it ? |
| 14 | This is often an unintentional form of steering which happens when the sail is not at the correct angle to the wind — the section of the sail next to the mast does not fill with wind and the driving force acts from a couple of feet farther back . |
| 15 | Otherwise , if the oil is not at the right temperature , you end up boiling the food rather than deep-frying it . ’ |
| 16 | And there is no slum problem which is not at the same time a poverty problem . |
| 17 | But , to enable the searcher to know where the register is kept , if that is not at the registered office , the general part of the return has to state where that is . |
| 18 | The country 's politicians , believers in consensus , stress that the naysayers must be assured that the European Community is not on the slippery slope to a federal Europe . |
| 19 | and correct him/her if he/she is not on the right lines . |
| 20 | Select a point A that is not on the straight line . |
| 21 | Although the matter of Thursday 's meeting is not on the official agenda , the council 's freedom of speech policy may be called into question . |
| 22 | I then found my application for financial assistance for part-time study had been rejected ‘ because anthropology is not on the approved list of subjects ( in the Circular ) ’ ( Memo from HQ 1977 ) . |
| 23 | Our criticism is not of the economic regeneration . |
| 24 | But on the basis of evidence available now , it seems reasonable to conclude that class is not of the first importance in structuring our experiences of family life . |
| 25 | The true love relationship is not of the ordinary world , this meeting is of another world , partly of emotions and partly of the mystical . |
| 26 | First of all , the available evidence is not of the right kind . |
| 27 | You should not anticipate reliable floppy disk reading if the disk is not of the correct type , or if it has not been formatted using the correct procedure for that particular disk drive . |
| 28 | The breakfast used is not of the ruff-core variety , it 's employed subtly throughout and will enliven your regular cuppa . |
| 29 | They were surprised by the intensity of the response , their rhythm suffered and their perception of the space-time rapport is not of the highest calibre . |
| 30 | But of course no one wants to buy a product if it is not of the highest quality and this is where the Potato Marketing Board can help . |