Example sentences of "[be] not [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 2 | In Nigeria they are called Medical Extension Officers as they feel that they are not assistants as such but great contributors to health care . |
| 3 | It is not disturbance as such but uncontrollable disturbance which leads to uncertainty . |
| 4 | I believe that when Milton Friedman defends capitalism as a necessary but not sufficient condition to ensure a free society , it is not capitalism as an ideology to which he refers , but the guarantee by the state to respect private property rights . |
| 5 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
| 6 | are you sure it was n't Chris as a baby ? |