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

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1 Note that the operations performed in this algorithm are not part of mathematics .
2 In doing this it is likely that much of the richness of the uncontrolled interview will be lost , but the aims of the formal interview are not richness , rather they are uniformity of question from a team of fieldworkers , and rapid quantification of answers for analysis and testing .
3 Although patients with events usually undergo biochemical and metabolic investigations , blood gas measurements on the arrival of such patients in the accident and emergency department are not routine .
4 When a problem is based on a rule — e.g. the rule in Derry v. Peek or Rylands v. Fletcher — it is usually advisable to state the whole rule in a sentence or two , even though some parts of the rule are not material to the problem .
5 Cornford had quoted the Euripidean question , ‘ who knows if to be living be not death ?
6 In fact , purists claim the big companies use so many the end result is not cider at all .
7 The result is not choice but the double shift .
8 The result is not death to the unsuccessful competitor but few or no offspring . ’
9 Indifference is not neutrality , and even in a controlled professional relationship the quality of physical care is emotionally significant .
10 ‘ Sniffing at my mail is not part of your duties , ’ he snapped crossly , then left the office .
11 You should select of the following options which may only be done when the combination of old and new mail is not zero : —
12 But when a modern lawyer uses the terms ‘ law ’ and ‘ equity ’ he does not mean to say that equity is not law .
13 That the accounts department is not part of B S 5750 except in its relationship with er , researchers .
14 The theme for the future is not education but segregation .
15 But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be .
16 Indeed , I shall argue that while research is not part of the idea of higher education , it is presupposed by higher education .
17 The deputy mayor is not vice-chairman of the council .
18 Dr Richard Thorne whose practice is not fund holding says it reinforces his fear that the system is two-tier …
19 Kenneth Leech makes a similar point ‘ spiritual guidance is not crisis intervention but a continuous process , the movement to God and in God ’
20 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 .
21 As the veteran Serb nationalist and president of rump-Yugoslavia , Dobrica Cosic , said : ‘ The dilemma is not war or peace .
22 If the exponent is not zero , then the variable has a floating point value .
23 A big light shines down upon it , and the light is n't kind .
24 Submission is not consent , nor is consent obtained when the victim is drugged or drunk .
25 The existence of surplus labour is not con fined to capitalism .
26 In the computer models , on the other hand , the selection criterion is not survival , but the ability to appeal to human whim .
27 For the Americans it was the first declaration in a film that love for pleasure is not sin .
28 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 .
29 Delegation is not abrogation and the person who delegates retains accountability and therefore must be in ultimate control at all stages of the job .
30 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 .
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