Example sentences of "is not the [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is not the freedom of movement there is with the network system but there is far less deadweight of support staff than there is with the pyramid or layer system . |
| 2 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 3 | He is not the kind of bloke who wishes to know his coloured brethren . ’ |
| 4 | However , the form which such support takes means that it is not the kind of support upon which one could rely . |
| 5 | After shareholders voted to reject his 30 pence a share offer to take the company private in December , Alan Sugar has some fence-mending to do : Amstrad insists that the personal communicator to be launched next week is not the kind of blockbuster product that will restore the company 's fortunes on its own , but the unexpected first half profit has caused some to feel that Sugar overdid the gloom . |
| 6 | Frances McAvennie , a former council roadsweeper from Glasgow 's Milton housing scheme , is not the kind of character you immediately associate with brasserie lifestyle . |
| 7 | Mr Wood conjectured , ‘ They could be raising money for the lending institutions , which is not the kind of thing we do ’ . |
| 8 | This is not the kind of thing I want my children to read . ’ |
| 9 | But that is not the kind of answer I want to give . |
| 10 | Frankly , Floorplan Plus is not the kind of program you 're going to use every day — unless you get addicted to moving the furniture , that is , but it does have its uses . |
| 11 | Ours is not the kind of house where you expect to steal jewellery and furs . |
| 12 | This is not the kind of guy who makes polite conversation . |
| 13 | But I have to admit that with the exception of the quick GTi and certainly the new 2.8-litre VR6 , the latest Golf is not the kind of car to set the pulses racing . |
| 14 | The focus on popular political strategy , on the one hand , and on changes in political representation , on the other , may reveal democratic advance even where there is not the kind of regime change called a ‘ transition to democracy ’ ; so that systems undergoing such complete ( Spain ) or partial ( Brazil ) transitions may be compared to others ( Mexico ) where none have taken place . |
| 15 | It is not that testing rigorously formulated theories from deduced hypotheses is never done , only that it is not the standard of scientificity . |
| 16 | The objection may be raised , " If what we are talking about in educational technology is not the promotion of AV aids but the cultivation of a systematic problem-solving attitude , why is it that so many self-styled educational technologists did in fact emerge from the audio-visual movement or related areas , and why is it that so much educational technology literature is concerned with the applications of audio-visual formats of one kind or another to learning development ? " |
| 17 | It has been argued that the best predictor of behaviour is not the possession of knowledge per se but behavioural intentions which are themselves predicted by attitudes and the subjective norm for the acceptability of the behaviour in question . |
| 18 | It is not the state of war that isolates . |
| 19 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
| 20 | Education is not the whole of life and there is much information that men must acquire and many skills they must learn which are no part of education . |
| 21 | But method is not the whole of psychology , and no psychological method is intrinsically feminist or anti-feminist . |
| 22 | Science , then , is not the whole of experience but only an abstract mode of experience . |
| 23 | For an alternative formulation might be that it is the hallmark of democratic government ( which is not the whole of democracy ) that it is government by consent , by contrast with other forms of arbitrary or tyrannical rule where the wishes of the people are ignored and their assent or support is not sought , or considered necessary . |
| 24 | Of course , naming is not the whole of language , as the opening passage of Wittgenstein 's Investigations makes us so well aware ; yet it is no doubt a central part of language , and still an important and controversial topic in the philosophy of language . |
| 25 | The source of these difficulties is not the campaign of opposition waged by the British Medical Association , nor is it an incipient revolt among backbench MPs . |
| 26 | History is not the story of success , but the story of what was effective , for good or ill , in modifying men 's behaviour . |
| 27 | It is not the payment of interest at exorbitant rates and so we are not dealing necessarily with a monopoly situation . |
| 28 | Doubt alone is not the badge of objectivity . |
| 29 | But it is not the level of pay that is the real problem . |
| 30 | This is not the disappearance of work emphasized by ‘ post-industrial ’ theorists . |