Example sentences of "[is] not [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing primordial about Italianness , just as there is not about the South Africanness of the ANC . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ Tonight 's vote is not about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 3 | WH : ‘ Our track ‘ Eastenders ’ is not about the TV show , it 's about … |
| 4 | It is not for the Home Secretary , government or the House to lay down to the courts how many people they send to prison . |
| 5 | Swales is not at the US Cup , though he is expected for the final match in Detroit against Germany on June 19 . |
| 6 | When he is not on the golf course , he is making large sums as a company director . |
| 7 | That question is not on the Order Paper . |
| 8 | THE best battle at Stamford Bridge is not on the London football pitch , but for the turf itself . |
| 9 | If the record is not on the centre track the first or last track will be searched , depending on a comparison of the key being looked for with the highest key on the track . |
| 10 | If the flat only has one entrance/exit ( which it will because it is not on the ground floor ) , it should have a fire escape , or some means of escape over a balcony or roof . |
| 11 | A ride on the Big Dipper is not on the prize list , just the chance to be part of the TSB English Schools Athletics Championships , one of the biggest events of its kind in the world . |
| 12 | The bridge in question is shown in figure 7.8(b) and is not of the Wheatstone form . |
| 13 | ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny . |
| 14 | ( This option only appears if you have Full Menus selected so if it is not in the Options menu first activate Full Menus ) Use Freeze Panes to fix the position of the Split bars . |
| 15 | The reasons for these two situations arising could be because the correct word is not in the word list , but this in fact accounts for very few cases . |
| 16 | The greatest value of all such bulk matter , however , is not in the nutrient content , but in its effect on the soil structure , its retention of moisture and harbouring of the bacteria . |
| 17 | Some ads will be irrelevant : the viewer or reader is not in the target group , or has just made a purchase in that product group and does not want another just yet . |
| 18 | Evans , like Haggerty , is not in the Saints side for his cerebral contribution , though there was evidence against New Zealand last week that the giant prop is at last gaining an understanding of his league potential . |
| 19 | The weaknesses of this approach are that work absenteeism is under-reported in professional occupations , different jobs can be performed with different degrees of ill-health , attitudes to work can sometimes override states of ill-health , particularly of the minor type , and above all , a large proportion of the population is not in the labour force , so their illness goes totally unrecorded . |
| 20 | A multivariate analysis of WFS and other statistics confirmed that mortality of children under age five is higher if the mother is employed than if she is not in the labour force . |
| 21 | Because you will not have it accepted if it is not in the house style , and there are conventions , appropriate , and quite different , according to the magazine , the newspaper , and so on and so forth , so you need to acquaint yourself with the house style . |
| 22 | From this time maximum subsidence is not in the basin axis but immediately basinward of the ‘ bulge ’ . |
| 23 | Chapter five dealt with misspellings and mis-recognitions , but there are always going to be cases when the input word is not in the look-up word list . |
| 24 | BP is not in the fashion business . |
| 25 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |
| 26 | History plc is not in the theme park business , that is the immediate and shallow enjoyment of a series of short-lived and random experiences . |
| 27 | Well it 's erm , it 's not for the conversation content it 's the words . |
| 28 | It 's not for the planning authority |
| 29 | The point is she 's not on the doorstep mum is she , she 's two hundred and fifty miles away . |
| 30 | The second this about it , it 's certainly not addictive in any way , it 's not like the barbiturates Valium and so on . |