Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] not [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that the operations performed in this algorithm are not part of mathematics . |
| 2 | It is also supposed that comparison between welfare gained or lost for different people is , though still difficult , less intractably so , if what is in question are not qualities of feeling but the satisfactions of behaviourally manifested preferences . |
| 3 | On such a view , in so far as pragmatics is concerned with context , it can be claimed that by definition pragmatics is not part of competence , and thus not within the scope of grammatical descriptions . |
| 4 | This conflicts with earlier reports that Cu(I) gets incorporated into ZNO in the methanol synthesis catalyst ( but as Couves et al write , ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ ) . |
| 5 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 6 | It said that its study had not discovered any conclusive evidence on the damage done to humans by low-level exposure , but it stated that the lack of information and knowledge of the effects of exposure to low doses of the chemicals over a long period had led the working party to adopt the precautionary principle that absence of evidence was not evidence of absence . |
| 7 | Amis observes that many of the newly discovered poets in the anthology are not masters of form , but must be read for their ‘ realism ’ , that is , for content : |
| 8 | The obstacle to disarmament in this case is not ambitions of superiority but the fear on each side of being tricked into a position of inferiority . |
| 9 | There is no pain of loss in this doubt , no agonizing uncertainty , no straining desire for a solution : The desired goal is not recovery of faith but a respectable cover for retreat from faith . |
| 10 | What gave him pause was not lack of sympathy for the enterprise but the appalling difficulty of handling his grandmother in relation to Leon . |
| 11 | The worst sin in an engineering material is not lack of strength or lack of stiffness , desirable as these properties are , but lack of toughness , that is to say , lack of resistance to the propagation of cracks . |
| 12 | Saunders begins by equating reproduction with consumption and by arguing that production-derived class is not determinant of consumption position . |