Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , despite the identical name of ‘ collective agreements ’ , it is regarded not as an adversary process but rather as a means of ensuring the full cooperation of management and workers in carrying out the economic and social plans and improving the management of undertakings ( ILO , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | The best known pheromone is emitted not by an ant but by the female silk moth ( Bombyx mori ) . |
| 3 | Thus — and this is a critical point — refusal of consent is seen not as an assertion of will , but rather as a symptom of unsoundness of mind . |
| 4 | The dissemination of these views in adult education is based not on a class or race or gender analysis of inequality but on notions of feckless , unconfident , incompetent individuals who , because of learning difficulties or lack of social and life skills , are inadequate in their day-to-day lives . |
| 5 | The very opening theme [ 1 ] , in a matter-of-fact but distinctly pompous B flat major , is Swallow 's own motif , while Grimes is portrayed not by a theme but , as we shall see , by a texture . |
| 6 | The social determination of knowledge is supported not as a basis for analysing knowledge or ideology but as a basis for disputing with the positivist tendency in social science in order that an idealist and historicist account of the process of history can be recovered . |
| 7 | The Yasa will not be offended against if the ship is steered not by an oar , but by what the Khan has said is called a rudder , being just another kind of oar which is fixed to the stern of the vessel . |
| 8 | This is conceived not as a set of hardware but as a comprehensive information system focused on the needs identified by the ESSC ( see above ) and anticipating somewhat those of IGBP . |
| 9 | Both uses can in French be covered by the same word ancien , but they are distinguished in that the separative use requires prenominal position , while the standard use has the adjective after the noun , as in : ( 43 ) l'ancienne école de Charlie a fait banqueroute ( 44 ) cette école ancienne a hébergé les fils des tyrans depuis des siècles The same distinction is also marked overtly in Thai ; in this case it is realized not by a difference of syntactic position , but by a different choice of lexical item . |
| 10 | This map and the sense of movement from one place to the next form the frame of the book , equivalent to Boccaccio 's paradisiacal garden to which his storytellers have fled from the plague-infested city , and it ensures that Narratori delle pianure is read not as a collection of stories , but as a succession . |