Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Despite her occasional lapses into the royal ‘ we ’ and her desire to give comfort to victims of disaster , she is not monarch , head of state , nor dictator .
2 Lord St John of Fawsley , chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission , who , as Norman St John Stevas , was an early ministerial victim of Mrs Thatcher 's purge of the wets , has admonished the Prime Minister by reminding her she is not head of state ; treating her as such , his lordship suggested , would simply arouse public hostility .
3 And , she is not terror stricken , she is not horrified , she 's not cowering in a corner , Jane I mean .
4 THE husband of Camilla Parker Bowles revealed last night : She is not Prince Charles 's lover .
5 If she is not data she is an intervening variable to be eliminated .
6 ‘ And as a matter of fact , she is n't Harry 's sister .
7 And because she ca n't accept that she is n't lady of the bloody manor after all ! ’
8 ‘ They must have decided in Cas that she is n't hepatitis , ’ said Juliet .
9 C does know who borrowed it ( it is not B ) — but is frightened of being bullied if s/he says anything about it .
10 ‘ Property therefore means belonging to a tribe , ’ [ p. 90 ] and even then it is not land which is property with pastoralists .
11 It is not surprise that ‘ deep green ’ environmental groups , closer to the first view , find it difficult to communicate their concerns to businesses and governments who feel more at home with the second .
12 It is not surprise therefore , that I heard the story there and I related it exactly as I remember hearing it .
13 It is not sport for sport 's sake , ’ says Mr Hawkins , who is an ex-Harlem-Globetrotter , ‘ but a way of imposing a structure on undisciplined lives : in a sports team they turn up regularly , on time , in uniform , and train hard .
14 I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ .
15 It is not faith going a second mile ; it is faith making its first full step and there is no going back .
16 It is not Nizan 's allegiance to communism which must be interpreted in the light of his resignation from the party .
17 It is not drugs as such that act as responsible agents for the collapse of well-being in the society and the proceeding crime , but the human desire for drugs .
18 If , as is generally agreed , it is not Parliament itself which governs , to what extent is the Government itself , minister , civil servants , and the whole apparatus of the state , actually accountable and answerable to the Commons , and so in principle controllable by it ?
19 It is not management by consensus by any means , ’ says one former colleague .
20 It is not kind of you . ’
21 Mitchell adds , ‘ Bisexuality is a movement across a line , it is not androgyny ’ ( p. 308 , her emphasis ) .
22 But conversely , as I have already remarked , when Juliet Mitchell insists that ‘ bisexuality is a movement across a line , it is not androgyny ’ , she also leaves too much of sexual difference in place .
23 The text of Gloriana is finely literate , but it is not literature .
24 It is not industrialisation per se that creates underemployment and marginalisation , but an industrial finance capitalism and advanced technology ( intensive in capital ) which does not permit fundamental changes in the economic structure . ’
25 Most water in fuel , assuming it is not rainwater getting in , is caused by condensation formed on the inside of the tank .
26 Can I remind you that it is a draft , and it is a consultation draft , it is not Government policy .
27 It is not Government policy that all land everywhere should be subject to special constraint .
28 But it is not man 's activities alone which can be held to account , for man is also a part of the natural ecosystem .
29 Remember it is not TV
30 It is not meditation , it is just a cleansing , a putting into order .
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