Example sentences of "it is not the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , it is not the Structure Plan 's job to show specific sites for development .
2 It is not the element cost .
3 it is not the Armageddon situation that suggest .
4 It is not the voice volume alone that makes speech understandable .
5 But it is not the exercise mode that interests me the most .
6 Minimising — admitting that one or two staff members drink a bit or perhaps use a bit of cannabis or maybe occasionally get into trouble with the consequences of drinking too much but insisting that the Company has more important problems to deal with and that it is not the Company rule nor responsibility to deal with these problems .
7 The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented .
8 In a way , there is no terrible indignity in this — it is not the tennis equivalent of Randolph Turpin 's sordid tour of the halls as a wrestler — but even so , it is difficult to see what Borg is aiming to get out of this renewed struggle .
9 The point Bourdieu makes versus structural anthropology is that it is not the marriage rule ( or genealogy ) that counts , but the economic and political strategies of the lineage .
10 To always smile , never to cry — it is a dream , but it is not the way life is . ’
11 It is often pondered as to who was or is Henley 's ‘ best ’ golfer , assuming it is not the record holder .
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