Example sentences of "be not [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the speechreader , magazines , newspapers , libraries , timetables , maps and books in general are not a luxury but a necessity . |
| 2 | Again think of the example of erm erm a social club you know , relationships between members , although they may be close and intimate and friendly and all that , are not the same as a relationship between members of a family . |
| 3 | This , then , is not a static but a dynamic view of early English prosodies ; its theoretical breadth and scope is wide , and its empirical procedures sound ; it is innovative and challenging ; and it also forms a vital teaching text . |
| 4 | To ‘ put myself in your place ’ , to ‘ see your point of view ’ and ‘ understand how you feel ’ , is not a moral but a cognitive act , but of what sort ? |
| 5 | On the present analysis , moving to the viewpoints of other persons is not in itself a moral act , any more than is temporal viewpoint-shifting , so that a reduced capacity for either is not a moral but a cognitive defect . |
| 6 | The passage could be read as ‘ this is not my ‘ Histoire de l'oeil ’ , but a male story that I have been subjected to ’ , or as ‘ this is not ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ but my story of the eye which is not a his-story but a hystery , i.e. a female story ’ . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ Coming down for a month is not the same as a permanent move . |
| 8 | On the other hand , fear of the unknown , shame at admitting that relatives have harmed them , and fear of retribution may create a kind of mental and emotional paralysis which is not the same as a positive wish to stay at home . |
| 9 | At this point , though , we should not forget the hard-learned lesson that an evolutionary argument is not the same as a developmental one . |
| 10 | One minute he is boasting that " our girls set Greek , Hebrew , Algebra , indeed anything you like , they are all well-trained girls " ; the next he is saying , " their rate per line is not the same as a man 's ; their corrections are heavier and that kind of thing , they make more mistakes " . |
| 11 | From the discussion of manufacturing output in Chapter 2 , it should be apparent that a growth in employment is not the same as a growth in output . |
| 12 | A cluster is not the same as a concept , but if a learner can discover natural clusters then this is progress towards finding a concept . |
| 13 | I may have poured myself into my books , my home , my garden and my animals , but the loving feeling I have for them is not the same as a loving relationship , which goes beyond feeling into action and commitment . |
| 14 | In particular , since in several cases it seems to involve a conflict of time reference , we must note that what is involved is not the same as a superficially rather similar phenomenon which was the subject of a useful discussion by Bach ( 1968 ) — all the more so because some of his examples are ambiguous and could also be covered by this case . |
| 15 | Well it 's just that , you know , a pound , or a hundred pounds today , is not the same as a hundred pounds in a year 's time , or two , two years ' time . |
| 16 | She is not an incompetent but a degenerate . |
| 17 | But in another sense they raise a much more serious issue , one likely to arise in many jurisdictions whenever the defendant is not an individual but a corporation or some other form of association ; and it will be recognised that a very great proportion of international litigation does involve corporate defendants . |
| 18 | Cos when you 've just got trousers on it 's not the same as a nappy you know ? |
| 19 | 1357 , was not a Franciscan but a Carmelite of the Whitefriary , and his connection with Stamford is purely related to the university legend . |
| 20 | But when Coffin checked in the records , intact but dusty , he found that the comic was not a comic but a girls ' magazine . |
| 21 | He said it was not a co-operative but a business . |
| 22 | Octogesima Adveniens ( 1971 ) on the 80th anniversary of Rerum Novarum was not an encyclical but a letter to Cardinal Maurice Roy , then president of International Justice and Peace . |
| 23 | As he was not an insensitive or a brave man , the larger items in the national dailies frequently upset him and clouded his mind with vague anxieties . |
| 24 | So she was n't a stranger but a friend : one of the friends of Lili 's London afternoons ; a woman dressed in black wool with silver hoop earrings . |
| 25 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 26 | They are and I I think the whole trouble with Jenny was that not having , I mean , I was alright as a sort of mum subject I was n't the same as a bona fide mum that could be called upon in all weathers , at all times , to do everything |