Example sentences of "not the [noun] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Butter , eggs , refrigerated goods trains are all desirable things to have , but they are not the test of an economy in Soviet eyes .
2 Information acquired by an employee which becomes part of his general skills and stock of knowledge is not the subject of an obligation of confidentiality although during the term of the employment it may be a breach of the employee 's duty of good faith to disclose it to third parties .
3 Those are not the statistics of an industry in terminal decline .
4 By a notice of appeal dated 25 February 1992 the creditors appealed on the ground , inter alia , that the service of a statutory demand was not the bringing of an action and therefore did not contravene section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 .
5 It is not the means to an end conceived elsewhere : but an ‘ as if ’ , no less substantial than the as if of revolution itself .
6 First , they argued that a Maximum Admissible Concentration should be treated as an absolute limit not to be breached , and not the basis of an average .
7 There is no requirement in the Act of 1986 that a right of appeal should be given to a person who is not the recipient of an intervention notice .
8 ‘ Collusion ’ should , certainly for antitrust purposes , refer to a form of conduct , not the value of an outcome : collusive behaviour might well result in less than monopoly profits .
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