Example sentences of "be not a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are not a child of Star Zoo . |
| 2 | Lower sales are not a sign of weakness of industry and commerce — just weakness of demand . |
| 3 | There are of course the court of protection costs which are to be calculated and are not a source of disagreement . |
| 4 | A second answer is that long working hours are not a cause of housework dissatisfaction because they are an expected part of the housewife role . |
| 5 | Consultants are not a waste of money , it was decided by an overwhelming majority at one of the liveliest debates of the 1993 BAIE convention . |
| 6 | ‘ You are not a waste of time , Jenna . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And , in order to keep the twins happy , we must make sure that we 're not a picture of doom and gloom , ’ he continued firmly . |
| 8 | If you 're not a lover of platform games it could be a wee bit tedious . |
| 9 | If it works out that 's great , but we 're not a piece of meat . ’ |
| 10 | If it works out that 's great , but we 're not a piece of meat . ’ |
| 11 | Well I 'm I 'm sorry but I 'm not a lot of use to him if I let him just walk away from the shield . |
| 12 | For such a contention there would seem to be not a shred of evidence . |
| 13 | er other than wh the church ones , which obviously are n't a lot of use to us for this |
| 14 | They were not a subdivision of Judaism , propounding one or another theological position . |
| 15 | The general form relied on the argument that the riots were not a form of protest against the insufferable social conditions of inner-city areas or the actions of the police , but a ‘ criminal act ’ or a ‘ cry for loot ’ . |
| 16 | So all their efforts to create helium from hydrogen hat been fruitless ; the traces of helium that they saw had been absorbed from the environment and were not a product of fusion . |
| 17 | Buckingham Palace were n't a lot of help in the matter yesterday . |
| 18 | Were n't a lot of choice was there ? |
| 19 | There were n't a lot of bleach in it . |
| 20 | There were n't a lot of room but you do n't care do you ? |
| 21 | It is not a history of diagnosis or treatment but of policies and institutions and their relationship to theories of the child mind . |
| 22 | A strong association , however , is not a proof of causation . |
| 23 | This would suggest that curiosity is not a by-product of intelligence , as we might expect , but rather an essential property of life . |
| 24 | Such irony is not a by-product of war . |
| 25 | The conclusion that could be drawn from this argument is that is not a phoneme of English , but is an allophone of several different vowel phonemes when those phonemes occur in an unstressed syllable . |
| 26 | For Durkheim , comparison was the most important method of sociological analysis : ‘ Comparative sociology is not a branch of sociology . |
| 27 | ‘ There is not a shred of doubt in my mind that we will win , ’ he says . |
| 28 | It seems that Constanze supplied Mozart with the sexual fulfilment he needed , and , although rumours abounded at the time , and have continued ever since , that both husband and wife took other lovers , there is not a shred of evidence to support such a theory . |
| 29 | There is not a shred of evidence that fearsome beasts were ritually slaughtered in the arena or lissome slave-girls routinely sacrificed on the altars of scowling deities . |
| 30 | Dr Reid , author of a book on the Orkney case , claimed : ‘ There is not a shred of evidence of any form of abuse , physical or sexual , since the children 's father was taken out of circulation . ’ |