Example sentences of "[is] not a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not a history of diagnosis or treatment but of policies and institutions and their relationship to theories of the child mind . |
| 2 | A strong association , however , is not a proof of causation . |
| 3 | This would suggest that curiosity is not a by-product of intelligence , as we might expect , but rather an essential property of life . |
| 4 | Such irony is not a by-product of war . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For Durkheim , comparison was the most important method of sociological analysis : ‘ Comparative sociology is not a branch of sociology . |
| 7 | ‘ There is not a shred of doubt in my mind that we will win , ’ he says . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | " 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 . |
| 12 | This is not a case of trespass . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The emphatic answer is that it is not a contract of sale . |
| 17 | A contract of barter , i.e. where goods are exchanged for other goods — lacks this element and is not a contract of sale . |
| 18 | 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. ) . |
| 19 | If the main purpose is something else ( e.g. the provision of labour ) then the agreement is not a contract of sale . |
| 20 | The protection is not confined to interference with contracts of employment but where the contract affected is not a contract of employment , there are restrictions on the use of ‘ secondary action . ’ |
| 21 | Nothing in section 13 is to prevent an act from being actionable in tort on a ground specified in section 13(1) where ( a ) the contract interfered with in respect of which the action is brought is not a contract of employment and ( b ) there has been secondary action which does not satisfy the requirements of section 17 . |
| 22 | Examples of this category are black — in blackbird , blue in blue-tit , and red in red wine ( it must not be thought that red here is merely a colour term : a red wine is a type of wine , whereas a red dress is not a type of dress ) . |
| 23 | Whole group drama , however , is not a type of drama , but an organisational strategy ; as with any strategy it can be well used or misused . |
| 24 | An entry on the register is not a finding of fact or confirmation of guilt . |
| 25 | The fact that the sea waybill is not a document of title in some important maritime jurisdictions such as Great Britain removes it , according to a widely held view , from the purview of the Hague Rules and Hague-Visby . |
| 26 | Another consequence of the fact that the English sea waybill is not a document of title is that the consignor 's endorsement or delivery of such a waybill to a third party is legally meaningless . |
| 27 | Purity here is not a state of life , an innate condition , but a virtue — something that must be sought , found and won . |
| 28 | Similarly rubber tyres can be flexed in an apparatus designed to determine their properties in use on motor cars , but this is not a test of value to the materials scientist . |
| 29 | This is not a change of class , this is just a reward . |
| 30 | For this is not a journey of peace and tranquillity but a struggle requiring constant effort and application . |