Example sentences of "[noun sg] is not the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speed is not the car builder 's over-riding need . |
| 2 | For women , in contrast , discontinuity is not the core experience , and relationships are not perceived as violent . |
| 3 | And now the main enemy is not the perpetuity rule , but fiscal legislation . |
| 4 | THE Rubik cube is not the Rubik cube the world over . |
| 5 | Meat is not the staple item in a chimp diet but a desirable extra . |
| 6 | Ms Radice correctly reasons that her constituency is not the art community , but Congress , which authorises and funds the endowment , and which represents the American people in toto . |
| 7 | We set ourselves to introduce a critical awareness of current misconceptions about language , to inform students of some differences between speech and writing , to make them aware that social and aesthetic evaluations of language are that , and nothing more ( however confidently pronounced ) and to sensitise them to some of the difficulties of pupils in English schools for whom English is not the mother tongue , or for whom their own English was a baffling unfamiliar variety . |