Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] not [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the trial it appeared that the defendant was not in fact owner of the houses . |
| 2 | The proposal is not for freight traffic to go through King 's Cross . |
| 3 | A police spokesman said the vehicle was not in working order and the thieves probably took it away on a trailer . |
| 4 | We wish to point out , as was made clear in the report itself , that the reference was not to Lothian Enterprise — established in 1988 as the venture capital arm of Lothian Regional Council — but to Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise ( LEEL ) . |
| 5 | Judges are allowed to disqualify any competitor not considered to be ‘ walking ’ , but some walk so quickly that high-speed cameras are needed to make sure the walker is not in fact running . |
| 6 | Both preferences reflect the power of domestic producer interests , whose aim is not to spur development abroad but to sell exports and block imports . |
| 7 | The tax is not in fact ACT , so can not be set against the company 's mainstream corporation tax liability . |
| 8 | For the autocracy the aim was not to spread general enlightenment but to improve the quality of the civil and military leadership , to train men capable of developing administrative , military , and technological skills . |
| 9 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 10 | The wall is not in fact vertical though it is easy to misremember it as such , because it rises in three distinct layers of limestone , to heights of 6,900 , 8,500 and finally some 9,000 feet , with a filling of ice and snow on the slopes that divide one layer from the next . |
| 11 | ‘ The race was n't on Baydon Star 's agenda and we 'll just have to see , ’ he said . |
| 12 | But despite this controversy , methods of birth control were not in fact alien to the working class and in the use of contraception we can again see distinctive patterns . |
| 13 | Director and company secretary Diane Pinion said : ‘ The rubbish is not from Star Discount , but from other local businesses and people dumping generally on the site . ’ |
| 14 | Regionalism is not about service delivery . |
| 15 | But we must not be misled by the atmosphere of religious exaltation : the pagans are , by implication , cattle for the slaughter ; the call is not to missionary work , nor even to humane conquest , if such a thing exists , but to slaughter . |
| 16 | Town soil is not like country soil , and the smaller the area the worse it is . |
| 17 | The government was not to influence content , but the state and/or regulatory bodies and/or the law courts were to ensure that ‘ civilized values ’ , ‘ morality ’ and ‘ decency ’ were respected . |
| 18 | Leicestershire won by 133 runs IN MAKING a laudable attempt to sustain interest in a foreshortened contest at Fenner 's , Leicestershire learnt something of long-term disadvantage : their spin-bowling is not of county championship quality . |
| 19 | Module is not a package/Module is not of type Package |
| 20 | The decision in the Hoffmann-La Roche case is not about law enforcement actions in general . |
| 21 | A more measured response is not to abandon welfare but to shift the carrots : make welfare reward work . |
| 22 | Electronic publishing is n't like word processing , it 's not that easy to ‘ pick it up as you go along ’ — at least not if you want professional results . |
| 23 | But even the most socialist of them shared the view , articulated by Brailsford before the war , that the first task of the pacifist was not to overthrow capitalism but to ‘ check the worst consequences of a capitalistic foreign policy , and , if possible , turn it to some partial good . ’ |
| 24 | I think I was very lucky to have had a year in school , and therefore to know that ‘ real ’ teaching was not like School Practice . |
| 25 | In the case of legacy per damnationem , the legatee was not of course owner , but he was the beneficiary of a civil-law obligation imposed on the heir by the testator : the words used for such a legacy , damnas esto dare , generated a liability at civil law for the heir to make over the property to the legatee . |