Example sentences of "[det] [is] not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nonna , ’ he said gently , ‘ this is not Arianna . |
| 2 | ‘ This is not Africa , ’ is an exclamation often heard . |
| 3 | ‘ This is not London , you know , and the local girls are happy-go-lucky , so the relationships when you 're living in the same house tend to be even more happy-go-lucky . ’ |
| 4 | This is not London but the South-West of England . |
| 5 | This is not coincidence . |
| 6 | It would seem to follow from the Committee 's proposals that this is not rape , but no other offence would cover the defendant 's conduct . |
| 7 | A beautiful woman , Simone Weil said , seeing herself in the mirror , knows ‘ This is I. ’ An ugly woman knows , with equal certainty , ‘ This is not I. ’ Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification . |
| 8 | This is not biomorph space but real genetic space . |
| 9 | This is not satire , but there is an element of a joke . ’ |
| 10 | This is not construction . |
| 11 | In fact , however , this is not Hobbes 's view . |
| 12 | This is not Quine 's conclusion . |
| 13 | Ellis declined to say how much the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is being paid for the service , but this is not money which British racing is missing out on , as a contract , subject to review after three years , was drawn up with the Racecourse Association at the beginning of SIS transmission . |
| 14 | This is not storm and should not be dealt with as a storm damage claim . |
| 15 | This is not South Africa , where the power is in the hands of the Afrikaner and it is possible — if not altogether honest — for the British visitor to remain critical and aloof from responsibility for what is wrong . |
| 16 | The officers just take their advice , this is not accountability . |
| 17 | This is not paradise either . |
| 18 | When you act in the light of knowledge which is in your own self-interest or in the interests of your group or class , this is not bravery but absolute necessity . ’ |
| 19 | I say this is not cricket what ? |
| 20 | This is not Washington DC . ’ |
| 21 | This is not criticism as it is necessary when writing local history to use previous writers . |
| 22 | But this is not evidence for an additional hereditary mechanism . |
| 23 | The authors argue that this is not evidence that their model is incorrect or inapplicable to treated cases , but that , to a certain extent , the factors which make women vulnerable to depression also make them less likely to receive psychiatric help . |
| 24 | But equally obviously this is not evidence for conscious design . |
| 25 | I 'm just wondering whether in fact every Saturday that you 've got , bearing in mind this is not flag days , this is in the street . |
| 26 | Maybe the reader 's first thought an experiment of my own showed that this is not misinterpretation in any simple sense . |
| 27 | And remember , this is not education , this is very fast cramming . |
| 28 | ‘ But , as you yourself said , this is not New York . ’ |
| 29 | This is not proof , of course , that there was no reasonable expectation of trouble ; the late announcement of the ban , however , gave credence to the assumption that it had only been prompted by the Apprentice Boys march , and that the Government , as in Dungannon , was allowing a loyalist organisation to manipulate the situation so that an opposition demonstration would be banned . |
| 30 | This is not proof in itself that our ancestors were more intelligent than we are : it seems that the ability of a brain depends less on its size than on the extent of its complexity , as epitomized by the degree of crenulation ( folding ) on its exterior . |