Example sentences of "[noun sg] be not in [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 | A police spokesman said the vehicle was not in working order and the thieves probably took it away on a trailer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The tax is not in fact ACT , so can not be set against the company 's mainstream corporation tax liability . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |