Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [not/n't] [noun sg] " 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 | And because she ca n't accept that she is n't lady of the bloody manor after all ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They must have decided in Cas that she is n't hepatitis , ’ said Juliet . |
| 6 | ‘ Property therefore means belonging to a tribe , ’ [ p. 90 ] and even then it is not land which is property with pastoralists . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is not surprise therefore , that I heard the story there and I related it exactly as I remember hearing it . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | It is not faith going a second mile ; it is faith making its first full step and there is no going back . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | It is not management by consensus by any means , ’ says one former colleague . |
| 14 | It is not kind of you . ’ |
| 15 | Mitchell adds , ‘ Bisexuality is a movement across a line , it is not androgyny ’ ( p. 308 , her emphasis ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The text of Gloriana is finely literate , but it is not literature . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Most water in fuel , assuming it is not rainwater getting in , is caused by condensation formed on the inside of the tank . |
| 20 | Can I remind you that it is a draft , and it is a consultation draft , it is not Government policy . |
| 21 | It is not Government policy that all land everywhere should be subject to special constraint . |
| 22 | But it is not man 's activities alone which can be held to account , for man is also a part of the natural ecosystem . |
| 23 | Remember it is not TV |
| 24 | It is not meditation , it is just a cleansing , a putting into order . |
| 25 | It is not fiction , nor is it conventional autobiography , which tends to say what the author wishes us to know . |
| 26 | Accordingly , it is not modesty to say , ‘ I hope I am a Christian , but I can not say more . ’ |
| 27 | On the other hand it is not chaos , and within the context of this essay it is regarded as asymmetry … a balance of dissimilar forces . |
| 28 | I wave and clap at the crowd , blow kisses at them and bow , it is not theatricality but very genuine feeling . |
| 29 | If it is not rape to threaten a woman other than with immediate violence , questions will inevitably arise about other situations . |
| 30 | Often , it is not brand new R&D that is needed at all , but rather the application of existing knowledge to a wide range of problems and processes within manufacturing industry . |