Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] not [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , purists claim the big companies use so many the end result is not cider at all .
2 The result is not choice but the double shift .
3 The result is not death to the unsuccessful competitor but few or no offspring . ’
4 Indifference is not neutrality , and even in a controlled professional relationship the quality of physical care is emotionally significant .
5 ‘ Sniffing at my mail is not part of your duties , ’ he snapped crossly , then left the office .
6 You should select of the following options which may only be done when the combination of old and new mail is not zero : —
7 But when a modern lawyer uses the terms ‘ law ’ and ‘ equity ’ he does not mean to say that equity is not law .
8 That the accounts department is not part of B S 5750 except in its relationship with er , researchers .
9 We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ , but in its humble way , is it not God ?
10 The theme for the future is not education but segregation .
11 But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be .
12 Indeed , I shall argue that while research is not part of the idea of higher education , it is presupposed by higher education .
13 The deputy mayor is not vice-chairman of the council .
14 Dr Richard Thorne whose practice is not fund holding says it reinforces his fear that the system is two-tier …
15 Kenneth Leech makes a similar point ‘ spiritual guidance is not crisis intervention but a continuous process , the movement to God and in God ’
16 Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas .
17 As the veteran Serb nationalist and president of rump-Yugoslavia , Dobrica Cosic , said : ‘ The dilemma is not war or peace .
18 Some sources say that for newspapers , the real enemy is not RTE , but UK newspapers , which are far cheaper in the Republic .
19 If the exponent is not zero , then the variable has a floating point value .
20 First , it tells us that the basic currency of the industry is not bits and bytes and the complex trappings of electronic technology .
21 A big light shines down upon it , and the light is n't kind .
22 Submission is not consent , nor is consent obtained when the victim is drugged or drunk .
23 The existence of surplus labour is not con fined to capitalism .
24 Let us call these inferences that arise from observing the maxims standard implicatures ( the term is not Grice 's , although he introduces the term generalized implicature for a subset of these implicatures which do not require particular contextual conditions in order to be inferred ) .
25 In the computer models , on the other hand , the selection criterion is not survival , but the ability to appeal to human whim .
26 For the Americans it was the first declaration in a film that love for pleasure is not sin .
27 The most radical possible objection to the argument from pleasure is not scepticism but the counterclaim that pleasure is evil , which condemns as wrong any choice in favour of the enjoyable .
28 Delegation is not abrogation and the person who delegates retains accountability and therefore must be in ultimate control at all stages of the job .
29 Thus , despite the striking familial association between gluten sensitivity and ulcerative colitis , it is clear from this study that the gluten driven proctitis is not part of a continuum of inflammatory change which culminates in some individuals in full blown ulcerative colitis .
30 " Lack of care for the consequences of exuberant reporting is not malice and nor is mere inaccuracy or a failure to make inquiries or accidental or negligent mis-quotation .
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