Example sentences of "be [not/n't] a [noun sg] against [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Catherine died , she was all I had left , but you ca n't hang on to young people … they 're not an insurance against loneliness in old age . |
| 2 | However , employment is not a guarantee against poverty , even for those who have full-time jobs . |
| 3 | Registration is not a safeguard against damage and the Post Office will only pay compensation if the contents were adequately packed . |
| 4 | This is not an argument against abortion , but the legitimacy of this procedure needs to be based on a concept other than that a woman may choose how she wishes to use her body . |
| 5 | But this is not an argument against MP . |
| 6 | Yet , this is not an argument against quantification per se , only against its premature use in advance of knowing what the mathematical properties of the phenomena of social life might be . |
| 7 | The court ruled that there was sufficient evidence for a sixth charge , of complicity in the execution of seven Jewish hostages in 1944 , but that this was not a crime against humanity since it was not part of a " methodical extermination plan " , and that it therefore fell under a 20-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of " ordinary " war crimes . |