Example sentences of "the [adj] be not a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I ca n't remember I think it was Louise who br I went up to talk to her , and the question was , which of follow which of the following is not a swimming stroke and you have butterfly , breast stroke , bird crawl . |
2 | This , see I just thought it was just cos , you know , and he kept stressing it , which of the following is not a swimming stroke , breast stroke , butterfly or bird crawl . |
3 | Which of the following is not a mouthbrooder : Shark Catfish , Severum , Egyptian Mouthbrooder ? |
4 | It was found that the swelling was not a tumour but an aneurysma large swelling of a blood vessel . |
5 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |
6 | On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable . |
7 | The latter was not a goal which Laura espoused , nor was she comfortable working in such a formal setting . |
8 | The scriptible is not a thing but a process , and is therefore not assimilable to the structures of poetics . |
9 | It has to be remembered that Britain of the 1920s was not a land of milk and honey . |
10 | The first is not a lot of use in an indirect system , since once the mains stopcock has been turned off , most of the water left in the rising main can be drained out from the kitchen tap . |
11 | Contrary to what our readers may believe the above is not a description of Europe after the arrival of solicitors ' rights of audience . |
12 | The former is not a contract for the sale of specific goods ; whereas , if the seller has just 12 bottles of port in stock , the latter is a contract for the sale of specific goods . |
13 | They allow us to describe , as the episteme of a period , not the sum of its knowledge , nor the general style of its research , but the deviation , distances , the oppositions , the differences , the relations of its multiple scientific discourses : the epistemic is not a sort of grand underlying theory , it is a space of dispersion , it is an open field of relationships and no doubt indefinitely specifiable . |