Example sentences of "[not/n't] [art] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again think of the example of erm erm a social club you know , relationships between members , although they may be close and intimate and friendly and all that , are not the same as a relationship between members of a family . |
| 2 | One minute he is boasting that " our girls set Greek , Hebrew , Algebra , indeed anything you like , they are all well-trained girls " ; the next he is saying , " their rate per line is not the same as a man 's ; their corrections are heavier and that kind of thing , they make more mistakes " . |
| 3 | A cluster is not the same as a concept , but if a learner can discover natural clusters then this is progress towards finding a concept . |
| 4 | From the discussion of manufacturing output in Chapter 2 , it should be apparent that a growth in employment is not the same as a growth in output . |
| 5 | Cos when you 've just got trousers on it 's not the same as a nappy you know ? |
| 6 | More generally , it seems that there are many cases where prenominal adjectives express occasion values , and not a few where a characteristic , in his sense , is expressed by a postnominal adjective . |
| 7 | He said it was not a co-operative but a business . |
| 8 | 1357 , was not a Franciscan but a Carmelite of the Whitefriary , and his connection with Stamford is purely related to the university legend . |
| 9 | The passage could be read as ‘ this is not my ‘ Histoire de l'oeil ’ , but a male story that I have been subjected to ’ , or as ‘ this is not ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ but my story of the eye which is not a his-story but a hystery , i.e. a female story ’ . |
| 10 | Aside from these sorts of problems , I believe all of us who presume to speak on behalf of the other animals should worry , not a little but a lot , about the possibility of the Goliath of contemporary environmental concerns co-opting the David of animal protection . |
| 11 | For the speechreader , magazines , newspapers , libraries , timetables , maps and books in general are not a luxury but a necessity . |
| 12 | But in another sense they raise a much more serious issue , one likely to arise in many jurisdictions whenever the defendant is not an individual but a corporation or some other form of association ; and it will be recognised that a very great proportion of international litigation does involve corporate defendants . |
| 13 | Octogesima Adveniens ( 1971 ) on the 80th anniversary of Rerum Novarum was not an encyclical but a letter to Cardinal Maurice Roy , then president of International Justice and Peace . |
| 14 | So she was n't a stranger but a friend : one of the friends of Lili 's London afternoons ; a woman dressed in black wool with silver hoop earrings . |