Example sentences of "[noun sg] is not [noun sg] " 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 The theme for the future is not education but segregation .
10 But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be .
11 Indeed , I shall argue that while research is not part of the idea of higher education , it is presupposed by higher education .
12 The deputy mayor is not vice-chairman of the council .
13 Dr Richard Thorne whose practice is not fund holding says it reinforces his fear that the system is two-tier …
14 Kenneth Leech makes a similar point ‘ spiritual guidance is not crisis intervention but a continuous process , the movement to God and in God ’
15 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 .
16 As the veteran Serb nationalist and president of rump-Yugoslavia , Dobrica Cosic , said : ‘ The dilemma is not war or peace .
17 If the exponent is not zero , then the variable has a floating point value .
18 A big light shines down upon it , and the light is n't kind .
19 Submission is not consent , nor is consent obtained when the victim is drugged or drunk .
20 The existence of surplus labour is not con fined to capitalism .
21 In the computer models , on the other hand , the selection criterion is not survival , but the ability to appeal to human whim .
22 For the Americans it was the first declaration in a film that love for pleasure is not sin .
23 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 .
24 Delegation is not abrogation and the person who delegates retains accountability and therefore must be in ultimate control at all stages of the job .
25 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 .
26 " 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 .
27 For Wittgenstein , on the other hand , the condition is not part of what one means .
28 I mean it 's the old story , is n't it , one person who gets killed on a Bank Holiday car crash is not news but four getting killed together is a disaster , is newsworthy , I mean that 's the way it works .
29 Most rape is not news .
30 Marriage is n't child 's play
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