Example sentences of "[is] not [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George could not face a life on his own , though I do n't think he would consider marrying because he is not a ladies ' man . |
| 2 | Strictly speaking , this alternative ‘ mental ’ element is not a mens rea requirement at all , although it is properly enough described as a fault element . |
| 3 | Thus a fifth-century Thessalian inscription uses the phrase ‘ whether under a tagia or in an atagia ’ , that is , whether there is or is not a tagos ( Syll. 55 and ZPE , 1980 , p. 272 ) . |
| 4 | The Stag is not a sports car , nor is it especially fast : any modern GTi hatchback will comfortably outpace it in a sprint from rest to 60mph . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not a police matter but an immigration matter , and he is being interviewed , ’ a Home Office spokesman said . |
| 6 | At Gbagbo 's trial , which began on Feb. 27 , lawyers called for all charges against him and 19 other defendants to be dropped " to prove to the world that the rule of law exists and that Côte d'Ivoire is not a police state " . |
| 7 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |
| 8 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 9 | If it is not the Women 's Tennis Association , spurred on by the vocal support of Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles demanding equal prize money at Wimbledon and the French , then it is the voices on the men 's side who want prize money for the top tier of their tournaments doubled to $2m . |
| 10 | This suggests that it is not the findings , the products of enquiry , that we should apply but the process of enquiry , the conceptual analysis , observation and experimentation which research exemplifies . |
| 11 | It is not the citizens charter that the consumers of this country want ; they want a Ministry of Food and Farming which the incoming Labour Government will introduce . |
| 12 | What bothers me ultimately is not the tempos in themselves , but the sense that the driving force resides exclusively within the music . |
| 13 | For example , it is not the customers themselves which are important in the context of this particular data flow , but their orders . |
| 14 | ‘ The real question is not the rights and wrongs of the death penalty , because that 's just not worth debating . |
| 15 | What I am interested in is not the forms they construct , but how they construct them ; I am concerned with identifying the graphological constants . |
| 16 | It is not the streets that exist . |
| 17 | What is most important is not the talks but what they do after that 's what matters . |
| 18 | It is not the views of Mr Brzezinski , France or even Germany that count , however , but those of the American government . |
| 19 | It is not the houses . |
| 20 | Surely it is not the scientists who are guilty of hubris here but their accusers , in implying that humans could play God . |
| 21 | No auditor can conduct an audit which is both effective and efficient unless he/she has a good working relationship with the client company 's directors , but it is crucial that the auditor remembers that it is not the directors who are the client , but the company itself . |
| 22 | The problem , as we point out over and over again , is not the resources themselves , but the way they are distributed . |
| 23 | The first resource I wan na talk about is not the resources , the Local Authority resources , the resources of the family . |
| 24 | Those studies reached the conclusion that , whatever else is served by privatisation and deregulation , it is not the interests of the consumer . |
| 25 | The remarks of the hon. Member for Sunderland , South ( Mr. Mullin ) suggests that his primary concern is not the interests of the taxpayer who supplies the money or the customer who uses the services , but the staff who work in those services . |
| 26 | So whatever is stopping the Labour Party organising and contesting elections in Northern Ireland it is not the rules of the Socialist International . |
| 27 | Secondly , if it is not the rules of the sentence that enable us to be meaningful and to perceive meaning , then what is it ? |
| 28 | The first point is that educating through a language which is not the parents ' own , does not produce a deviant development . |
| 29 | In considering whether the pursuers ' decision to rescind the contract was justified , the Sheriff Principal stated at p 63 : ‘ … the test is not the defenders ’ reasons for their failure to pay , but the effect which , objectively , their conduct was likely to have upon the minds of the pursuers , on the assumption that the pursuers were reasonable men . ’ |
| 30 | It is not the miners who should face the sack , but the ministers who have betrayed them and betrayed Britain 's coal industry . |