Example sentences of "is not a [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , first , that history is a sequence of cause and effect , whose course is to be grasped not by imagination but by intellectual effort ; secondly , that theory does not create practice but is created by practice ; and thirdly , that politics is not a function of ethics , but rather , that ethics is a function of politics , and morality is the product of power . |
| 2 | It is not a history of diagnosis or treatment but of policies and institutions and their relationship to theories of the child mind . |
| 3 | A strong association , however , is not a proof of causation . |
| 4 | This would suggest that curiosity is not a by-product of intelligence , as we might expect , but rather an essential property of life . |
| 5 | Such irony is not a by-product of war . |
| 6 | The conclusion that could be drawn from this argument is that is not a phoneme of English , but is an allophone of several different vowel phonemes when those phonemes occur in an unstressed syllable . |
| 7 | John later wrote , ‘ I gather from your letters that army life is not a bed of roses ? |
| 8 | For Durkheim , comparison was the most important method of sociological analysis : ‘ Comparative sociology is not a branch of sociology . |
| 9 | ‘ There is not a shred of doubt in my mind that we will win , ’ he says . |
| 10 | It seems that Constanze supplied Mozart with the sexual fulfilment he needed , and , although rumours abounded at the time , and have continued ever since , that both husband and wife took other lovers , there is not a shred of evidence to support such a theory . |
| 11 | There is not a shred of evidence that fearsome beasts were ritually slaughtered in the arena or lissome slave-girls routinely sacrificed on the altars of scowling deities . |
| 12 | Dr Reid , author of a book on the Orkney case , claimed : ‘ There is not a shred of evidence of any form of abuse , physical or sexual , since the children 's father was taken out of circulation . ’ |
| 13 | " The source of the problem , " argues Beer , " is not a lack of knowledge , but the structure of the situation , which continues to have compelling force even when participants recognise its tendencies . |
| 14 | Is not a separation of Spenser 's literary preoccupations with The Faerie Queene from his political preoccupations in A View the result of later critical directions which disliked presenting literary texts as political — especially when the politics is of an insupportable type within current liberal democracies ? |
| 15 | If a is not a member of A we write unc and say " a does not belong to A " . |
| 16 | Oman is not a member of OPEC but is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council ( GCC ) and is thus sensitive to the interests of other Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | This is not a case of trespass . |
| 18 | This is not a case of individuals that are badly nourished failing to reproduce effectively , he says . |
| 19 | What is achieved by devices such as this is not a relationship of analogy , as in the preceding examples , but , in Brooks 's words ( 1949 : 189 ) , a ‘ unification of attitudes into a hierarchy subordinated to a total and governing attitude ’ . |
| 20 | It is true that such rewriting in unexpected registers has been used by literary writers , particularly in the twentieth century ( James Joyce 's novel Ulysses is a famous example of this ) ; but such experimentation is not a convention of essay-writing in literary studies . |
| 21 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 22 | But there is not a bar of music on this recording that does not claim for its author a major place in history of Western music . |
| 23 | The emphatic answer is that it is not a contract of sale . |
| 24 | A contract of barter , i.e. where goods are exchanged for other goods — lacks this element and is not a contract of sale . |
| 25 | This is not a contract of sale of goods because its principal object is the provision of services , Young & marten v. McManus Childs ( 1968 ) H.L. ) . |
| 26 | If the main purpose is something else ( e.g. the provision of labour ) then the agreement is not a contract of sale . |
| 27 | The protection is not confined to interference with contracts of employment but where the contract affected is not a contract of employment , there are restrictions on the use of ‘ secondary action . ’ |
| 28 | Nothing in section 13 is to prevent an act from being actionable in tort on a ground specified in section 13(1) where ( a ) the contract interfered with in respect of which the action is brought is not a contract of employment and ( b ) there has been secondary action which does not satisfy the requirements of section 17 . |
| 29 | Examples of this category are black — in blackbird , blue in blue-tit , and red in red wine ( it must not be thought that red here is merely a colour term : a red wine is a type of wine , whereas a red dress is not a type of dress ) . |
| 30 | Whole group drama , however , is not a type of drama , but an organisational strategy ; as with any strategy it can be well used or misused . |