Example sentences of "[noun] be not [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Richard Thorne whose practice is not fund holding says it reinforces his fear that the system is two-tier … |
| 2 | Kenneth Leech makes a similar point ‘ spiritual guidance is not crisis intervention but a continuous process , the movement to God and in God ’ |
| 3 | Rubber Girl is not Coast Guard approved . |
| 4 | Stealers were n't Chaos spawn . |
| 5 | But in his judgment the RM said the defendants had failed to satisfy him that the dogs were not pit bull type terriers . |
| 6 | Instead , the factor that most influences the outcome of inferotemporal cortex lesions is not memory load but whether or not the animals are required to categorize the stimuli before making their choices ( Dean 1982 ) . |
| 7 | But the real business of Bognor these days is not holiday fun or conference trade but commuters and retirement . |
| 8 | NUMBER 10 Downing Street is not Buckingham Palace . |
| 9 | The people here thought that if your wrists were n't tennis racket handle-width on your sixth birthday then you were called a ‘ fat ’ and transferred into the ‘ right ’ . |
| 10 | The water is not azure blue . |
| 11 | If DELAY is not zero control is immediately returned to the main program , but if DELAY has reached zero the next step command is sent to the excitation sequence control and DELAY is loaded with the next value from the look-up table — The times between step commands are therefore proportional to the ( constant ) clock period and the look.up table values . |
| 12 | At this point I feel bound to say that the nickel-cadmium re-chargeable batteries are not environment friendly , and when you buy a cordless product it is your responsibility to dispose of it carefully when it is fully spent . |
| 13 | Thus in Chinantec , there are four expressions to choose from if one wants to say " Pedro moved to X " , depending on the following criteria : ( i ) one verb form is used if the speaker 5 is at X at CT , and X is S 's home-base ; ( ii ) another is used if S is at X , but X is not S's home-base ; ( iii ) a third is used if S is not at X , but X is S 's home-base ; ( iv ) a fourth is used if S is not at X , and X is not S's home-base ( Fillmore , 1917b : 16 ) . |
| 14 | Thus in Chinantec , there are four expressions to choose from if one wants to say " Pedro moved to X " , depending on the following criteria : ( i ) one verb form is used if the speaker 5 is at X at CT , and X is S 's home-base ; ( ii ) another is used if S is at X , but X is not S's home-base ; ( iii ) a third is used if S is not at X , but X is S 's home-base ; ( iv ) a fourth is used if S is not at X , and X is not S's home-base ( Fillmore , 1917b : 16 ) . |
| 15 | Atwood says her novel is n't science fiction , though it clearly is . |
| 16 | Those bundles of notes were n't fairy gold , or even Monopoly money . |
| 17 | The cause is not signal splatter ; the noise which annoys the deaf is at a much lower frequency . |
| 18 | Precisely who first devised the conical form of the sail on the special stunters that followed out of California and Hawaii is not recorded.The camber of the sail was natural anyway , the Radcliffe bridle had established the bridle points , but the new designers ( Tony Cyphert and Don Tabor are often credited ) added the rear cross-spar and this permitted the trihedron bridle which also absorbed the strain on glass fibre spars . |
| 19 | His teacher explained that homework for 8 year olds was not school policy and Jeetinder was called in to show his mother that he could read . |
| 20 | Erm the new settlement is n't r demand is there . |
| 21 | User is not package manager |
| 22 | The investigation included soil gas surveys and core drilling , and showed that modern industries were not responsible.The pollution probably derived from an engineering works that was closed some IS years ago . |
| 23 | A 16th Century gold pendant found by a Merseyside metal detecting enthusiast is not Treasure Trove , an inquest jury has decided . |
| 24 | And yet tonight , in the quiet of this room , I find that what really remains with me from this first day 's travel is not Salisbury Cathedral , nor any of the other charming sights of this city , but rather that marvellous view encountered this morning of the rolling English countryside . |
| 25 | Those at the conference table are not Palestine Liberation Organisation representatives working out of Tunis but people who actually live in the occupied territories , who have been deprived of their homeland , as they see it , and who are now looking to the future and trying to negotiate some kind of settlement . |
| 26 | I 'm quite sure that material is n't fire retardant . |
| 27 | Weather is not tennis weather , though , cold and damp . |
| 28 | In Parliament Jackson 's principal interest was not party politics , rather the promotion of West Hartlepool . |
| 29 | When I won an essay competition in 1957 on " Why I was proud to be a citizen of Leeds " , organised by the Variety Club of Great Britain and the local evening paper , the big event in my London visit was not Buckingham Palace , nor having Norman Wisdom put his arm round me , but gazing at a skiffle group which had played in the 21's coffee bar with Tommy Steele . |