Example sentences of "not [art] [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 . |
| 9 | the solution to the underclass lies in stricter enforcement of the criminal laws , in giving tenants a stake and a say in public housing , in educational innovation opposed by teachers ' unions , in changing welfare laws so that a baby is not a ticket for an apartment separate from mom 's . |
| 10 | It is not a question with an answer , for all these ‘ realities ’ are illusions in the wider sense . |
| 11 | Four good folios there , the whole story put across clean and clear , solid with fact and not a smell of an opinion . |
| 12 | She is not a woman with an interest in maternity . |
| 13 | Suppose that I try to act consistently as an egoist , indifferent to any effect on others which is not a means to an effect on myself . |
| 14 | Whatever may be true of the world , and , as follows from what has been said of necessitation , our conception of an effect is not a conception of an event that occurs if a usual background exists , or an event which follows on something required for it , but might not have occurred , or a merely probable event . |
| 15 | Buddhists , indeed , have insisted that there is nothing supernatural about such enlightenment : the visions , ecstasies and other alternative states of consciousness experienced by an adept are not a meeting with an alien , divine reality but are natural to the human condition , even though most people have not developed this spiritual potential within themselves . |
| 16 | This is implied in saying that the original statement expressed an attitude , and not a belief about an attitude . |
| 17 | Mr Hicks bravely pronounces that an activity based costing approach to cost management is not an option for an organisation hoping to compete in the 1990s — it is a requirement . |