Example sentences of "[be] not [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , at least , of this confusion and inconsistency arise out of misunderstanding as to what is meant by Wages for Housework , so before proceeding any further I propose to change the term in order to indicate ( a ) that I am not spokeswoman for , nor even in complete agreement with , the campaign of that name ; ( b ) that I do not propose to be sidetracked into an interesting discussion of the precise scientific definition of ‘ wage ’ ; what I am talking about is cash , money , pound notes , that to which a housewife is not entitled , that to which she should be ; and ( c ) that there is housework and housework . |
| 2 | I am not flavour of the week in some quarters as you may well imagine . |
| 3 | Gymnemins from Gymnema sylvestre ( Asclepiadaceae ) remove the sense of sweetness in some mammalian tongues , but are not deterrent to caterpillars and have less effect on dogs or rabbits than they do on apes . |
| 4 | As most bilingual students studying subjects are not beginners in English this experience more truly reflects their situation than does a lesson in a totally new language . |
| 5 | There are certain other contracts which are not contracts of sale of goods but which are analogous contracts because the ownership of goods passes under them , e.g. contracts of exchange and barter and contracts for labour and materials supplied ( see Chapter 8 above ) . |
| 6 | Thus the two columns of section 2 are not opposites in the way that the two columns of section 1 appear to be . |
| 7 | But these are not instances of the academic community acting concertedly as a single corporate body , being self-critical about its own internal affairs and activities . |
| 8 | Chapels are not improvements to coal houses . |
| 9 | Diplomacy and tact are not qualities for which Mr Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , are renowned . |
| 10 | It is also supposed that comparison between welfare gained or lost for different people is , though still difficult , less intractably so , if what is in question are not qualities of feeling but the satisfactions of behaviourally manifested preferences . |
| 11 | Contrary to rumour our Clubreps are not Masters of the Universe , although even we admit that one or two of them seem superhuman . |
| 12 | Amis observes that many of the newly discovered poets in the anthology are not masters of form , but must be read for their ‘ realism ’ , that is , for content : |
| 13 | This situation has left literature teachers with the sense that compared with their colleagues they are not masters in their own house , since they are dependent for their material on a product manufactured elsewhere by shifty and unreliable suppliers . |
| 14 | Such phenomena are not manifestations of alien technology ; rather , they are phenomena that occur naturally here on Earth . |
| 15 | Profits à prendre are rights to take things of value ( other than water ) from land , such as the right of common pasture , or rights of fishery ( commoners , it should be noticed , are not owners of the common ) . |
| 16 | Instead of trying to change old attitudes we can set out to design new ones which are not descendants of the old ones . |
| 17 | Deaths in detention are not phenomena of the distant past : last year two people were reported as having died in custody . |
| 18 | Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements , but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief . |
| 19 | Constitutional change through the popular will , or even the long wait for a head of state 's death , are not concepts with deep roots in African society . |
| 20 | Thus , although longitude bias of the VGP paths is definitive evidence for core-mantle interaction , simple VGP paths are not evidence of near-dipolar transition fields . |
| 21 | ( 3 ) The replies that you give are not evidence against you in any later criminal trial that may arise from this case . |
| 22 | ‘ You are not kind to your little seester ! ’ |
| 23 | I it is competitive because people are not kind of getting the money that we pay . |
| 24 | Having said this , it does not follow that there are not difficulties at a more " elementary " level of language . |
| 25 | Each Discussion Paper is prefaced by a non-technical summary which communicates its essential findings to those who are not specialists in the field . |
| 26 | Books on human evolution are often written by those who are not specialists in the subject and the results can be catastrophic or embarrassing . |
| 27 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These creatures are not crustaceans at all but prehistoric members of the spider family . |
| 30 | Those are not matters for me . |