Example sentences of "[verb] [is] not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again in the New Guinea Highlands , women are the main agents in producing both agricultural products and the most valuable possession — pigs — but then , in the view of these people , what really matters is not production , but large-scale , ceremonial exchanges and the significance of women 's role in production is once more ideologically denied . |
| 2 | After listening to my Sikh sisters ' accounts of their lives and relationships and the sensitive Izzat of their men I had the feeling that for Sikhs Izzat is not pride or honour — it is male ego , pure and simple . |
| 3 | What I do n't know is n't knowledge . |
| 4 | On the logic of validation itself , Popper make the striking proposal that what counts is not confirmation but falsification . |
| 5 | But one theory says the substance here depicted is not Silphium but wool ) . |
| 6 | The purpose of praying is not prayer , but to delight in God , and commune with him for his own sake . |
| 7 | Just signing a form that states that one would like the list of one 's benefits considered is not evidence but mere assertion . |
| 8 | And I 'm really being enormously selfish at this moment , because what I want is not Richard fussing around — and he does fuss , you know — but just to go back to the terrace and have tea . |
| 9 | But hope that is seen is not hope . |
| 10 | ‘ What those ladies said is n't evidence , ’ said Ivy trenchantly , to the delight of Donald , who was fond of the Law . |
| 11 | ( As a matter of fact , a previous owner has pencilled ‘ First Edition ’ inside the cover , but , bearing Gaby Goldscheider 's confession in mind , what the soldier said is n't evidence . ) |
| 12 | Only a Russian would find all that surprising , or fail to understand that freedom which is not misused is not freedom at all . |
| 13 | In my view what is needed is not abolition of the audit but a simplified format , less compliance reporting and an audit certificate which enables auditors to explain in greater detail what they have done and to spell out those areas they are not satisfied with , and why . |
| 14 | What is needed is not compulsion or dictation from the centre but people working together in the best interests of their local community . |
| 15 | She is , above all , Joyce 's central recognition , exultant recognition that yearning is not defeat and identification is not a proof of some fatal inner yielding to the pull of mediocrity . |
| 16 | But again , the presuppositions which produce such doubts do not describe who God is for the god they describe is not God . |
| 17 | " If a man loves me " , Jesus taught , " he will keep my word , and my Father will love him , and we will come to him and make our home with him … and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father 's who sent me . " |
| 18 | So perhaps my overkill misses the target : perhaps the behaviourist analysis of perception is sound , even though a general behaviourism is not , and what BS lacks is not knowledge of the nature of certain mental states , but only the ability to respond spontaneously to visual stimuli , that is , to respond as a result of actually seeing them . |
| 19 | By s.4 land generally speaking is not property which can be stolen . |
| 20 | Moreover , focusing is not Mr Clinton 's strength . |
| 21 | Once you 've done that , you 've said right you 'd like to go on , the problem we 're going to solve is not John Major 's , something to do with me here . |
| 22 | The world in which you and I exist is not nature , it consists of mind ! |
| 23 | The area in which this prospecting has been strongly resisted is not Ballymoney but the rural , lough-side communities of Moortown and Ardboe . |
| 24 | What we are seeing is not churchmen meddling in politics but following through the logic of their theology which Professor T. F. Torrance has dubbed ‘ a radical disjunction between faith and reason . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What we have is n't love , but at least it is n't a cold professional relationship . ’ |