Example sentences of "[is] not a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , first , that history is a sequence of cause and effect , whose course is to be grasped not by imagination but by intellectual effort ; secondly , that theory does not create practice but is created by practice ; and thirdly , that politics is not a function of ethics , but rather , that ethics is a function of politics , and morality is the product of power . |
| 2 | It is not a history of diagnosis or treatment but of policies and institutions and their relationship to theories of the child mind . |
| 3 | A strong association , however , is not a proof of causation . |
| 4 | Predictably , ‘ This Is Not A Song ’ is not that simple : for every slice of strings added by producer Edwyn Collins , there 's a line like ‘ This is not a song about animals ’ . |
| 5 | This would suggest that curiosity is not a by-product of intelligence , as we might expect , but rather an essential property of life . |
| 6 | Such irony is not a by-product of war . |
| 7 | The conclusion that could be drawn from this argument is that is not a phoneme of English , but is an allophone of several different vowel phonemes when those phonemes occur in an unstressed syllable . |
| 8 | Whim confirmed that tetra is not a feedstock for ICI 's CFC alternative compounds , even though such captive use would be permissible under the protocol . |
| 9 | John later wrote , ‘ I gather from your letters that army life is not a bed of roses ? |
| 10 | For Durkheim , comparison was the most important method of sociological analysis : ‘ Comparative sociology is not a branch of sociology . |
| 11 | ‘ There is not a shred of doubt in my mind that we will win , ’ he says . |
| 12 | It seems that Constanze supplied Mozart with the sexual fulfilment he needed , and , although rumours abounded at the time , and have continued ever since , that both husband and wife took other lovers , there is not a shred of evidence to support such a theory . |
| 13 | There is not a shred of evidence that fearsome beasts were ritually slaughtered in the arena or lissome slave-girls routinely sacrificed on the altars of scowling deities . |
| 14 | Dr Reid , author of a book on the Orkney case , claimed : ‘ There is not a shred of evidence of any form of abuse , physical or sexual , since the children 's father was taken out of circulation . ’ |
| 15 | " The source of the problem , " argues Beer , " is not a lack of knowledge , but the structure of the situation , which continues to have compelling force even when participants recognise its tendencies . |
| 16 | Is not a separation of Spenser 's literary preoccupations with The Faerie Queene from his political preoccupations in A View the result of later critical directions which disliked presenting literary texts as political — especially when the politics is of an insupportable type within current liberal democracies ? |
| 17 | If a is not a member of A we write unc and say " a does not belong to A " . |
| 18 | Oman is not a member of OPEC but is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council ( GCC ) and is thus sensitive to the interests of other Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia . |
| 19 | ‘ It is NOT a play about women getting undressed … ’ |
| 20 | This is not a case of trespass . |
| 21 | This is not a case of individuals that are badly nourished failing to reproduce effectively , he says . |
| 22 | What is achieved by devices such as this is not a relationship of analogy , as in the preceding examples , but , in Brooks 's words ( 1949 : 189 ) , a ‘ unification of attitudes into a hierarchy subordinated to a total and governing attitude ’ . |
| 23 | Demerger is clearly the right road but it is not a freeway to success . |
| 24 | It is true that such rewriting in unexpected registers has been used by literary writers , particularly in the twentieth century ( James Joyce 's novel Ulysses is a famous example of this ) ; but such experimentation is not a convention of essay-writing in literary studies . |
| 25 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 26 | But there is not a bar of music on this recording that does not claim for its author a major place in history of Western music . |
| 27 | The emphatic answer is that it is not a contract of sale . |
| 28 | A contract of barter , i.e. where goods are exchanged for other goods — lacks this element and is not a contract of sale . |
| 29 | This is not a contract of sale of goods because its principal object is the provision of services , Young & marten v. McManus Childs ( 1968 ) H.L. ) . |
| 30 | If the main purpose is something else ( e.g. the provision of labour ) then the agreement is not a contract of sale . |