Example sentences of "and [adj] be not a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Charity begins at home , ’ she concluded , ‘ and that is not a home I shall seek to enter again in a hurry . ’ |
| 2 | It has never been the case that central Government would indemnify local authorities for expenditure when they are already given money through the revenue support grant to enable them to undertake their responsibilities , and that is not a way forward . |
| 3 | From here to Newark and that 's not a return though . |
| 4 | What it says in the Bill is that the Government will use its best endeavours and that 's not a guarantee . |
| 5 | I 've just got another bit of paper a note saying please note while you are at college you are asked to do four hours overtime and that 's not a contract , it 's just a letter . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not a brain , and that 's not a tank , ’ Sheldukher replied evenly . |
| 7 | The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom , and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen 's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef … |
| 8 | As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated . |
| 9 | ‘ And that was not a hint for you to offer me a bed for the night , Miss Rose Fenemore . |
| 10 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 11 | And this is not a sub-committee of the sub-committee of Environment . |
| 12 | and this is not a dream of heaven , |
| 13 | In th , and this is not a school who 's decided to set it face against the county council , and it 's services . |
| 14 | I , I feel that probably professional status thing and this is not a therapy session . |
| 15 | The latter was applying a social policy on which reasonable men could differ ; it had decided against differential rating and this was not a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable corporation could come to it . |
| 16 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 17 | While urging for a change in the terms of the debate , in the short-term fat women must argue that to be both fat and beautiful is not a contradiction in terms , as part of the process of beginning to celebrate our sexuality . |