Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has demonstrated impressive institutional continuity ; it has not been the subject of serious attacks by the executive . |
| 2 | George Braque has not been the subject of a major exhibition in Switzerland for over thirty years but Jean-Louis Prat , director of the Fondation Pierre Gianadda , is remedying the situation . |
| 3 | However , the reasons for selecting these cut-off points has not been the subject of debate . |
| 4 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 5 | That has not been the attitude of David Houghton or his group , and they are to be congratulated for that . |
| 6 | In many agricultural projects this has not been the case . |
| 7 | This has not been the case with the LDDC , where a very extensive regenerative programme has characterized the corporation 's activities in an area of about 5,000 acres downstream of Tower Bridge ( see Figure 3 , p. xiii ) . |
| 8 | In 1992 that has not been the case , and I ca n't really tell you why . |
| 9 | If this has not been the case , it will be up to the individuals to explain the reasons behind this . |
| 10 | This has not been the case ; in fact most families have been pleased to know the diagnosis so early . |
| 11 | In practice , as Halsey , Heath and Ridge ( 1980 ) have recently shown , this has not been the case even for working-class boys . |
| 12 | This does not preclude the theoretical possibility of implementation in other technologies , such as fluidics ( see for example Gluskin , Jacoby , and Reader 1964 ) , although historically this has not been the case . |
| 13 | As we saw in Part II , this has not been the case with child language , where both comprehension and production have been extensively studied , with comparisons being made between the child 's spontaneous use and understanding of particular linguistic forms . |
| 14 | Is he aware that that has not been the case in large parts of the national health service , where food , cleaning and laundry services have been put out to competitive tender , and where , as a result , standards have often fallen far short of what they ought to be ? |
| 15 | This has not been the case so far this year with several results ’ , one of which is that ’ Government credibility has been severely tarnished , particularly with regard to perceived dedication to improved training . ’ |
| 16 | At Twickenham , he is going to have to play a full part in a Scottish back-row who — which has not been the case for some years — will be having to cope with , in Dewi Morris and Stuart Barnes , not only a breaking scrum-half , but a running stand-off who attacks the gain-line . |
| 17 | The managing director , Roger Spence , said : ‘ It has been a different sort of recession as traditionally the view is that theatre and leisure areas do better than others , but that has not been the case . |
| 18 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 19 | The University has not been the Wills family 's only educational project . |
| 20 | The Villahermosa Palace has not been the Prado 's only recent loss . |
| 21 | Certainly this has not been the experience in other jurisdictions . |
| 22 | The problem has not been the product — as the marketing men might describe Mr Major — but the packaging . |
| 23 | It is associated with a number of current and planned research projects , although in the past it has not been the practice to undertake substantive research directly . |
| 24 | This reflection has not been the practice in the past to any great extent in Scottish Catholic schools . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , we have seen earlier that homeothermy is a form of temperature regulation in tachymetabolic creatures , and imprecision in terminology has not been the prerogative solely of Bakker . |
| 26 | In raising the issue of the monarchy , it has not been the intention to select a bizarre , perhaps even frivolous topic , but one , the examination of which should raise important issues about contemporary ideology . |
| 27 | This has not been the view taken by the Roman lawyers in other European countries . |
| 28 | Thus despite the fact that the Thatcher government in the early 1980s was committed to a tight control of money supply and set targets for the broad monetary base M0 , and despite the fact that the authorities have expressed interest in monetary base control , this has not been the form of policy pursued . |
| 29 | The starting point of this skill-mix review has not been the needs of the community but the need to make cuts in the service . ’ |
| 30 | The evidence suggests that community policing has not been the panacea that Lord Scarman envisaged . |