Example sentences of "[adj] [is] not the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Present it to Walter Raleigh , Sitting Bull , Napoleon , Julius Caesar or even the man on the Athens omnibus circa 100 BC and explain to him that this is not the work of God or the Devil but a few clever chaps in a place and time they 've never heard of . |
2 | Despite appearances , this is not the work of a budding liberal . |
3 | It is true that some journalists are greedy and ask for rather more samples than they require , but this is not the norm and these people are soon sniffed out . |
4 | This is not the route . |
5 | Now the probability of any one step being positive or negative is ½ , so that the probability of having , say , r positive steps and n — r negative ones is This is not the probability of arriving at the point m = r = ( n-r ) =2r-n , however , since the successive steps may be taken in different ways . |
6 | This is not the spirit in which one becomes a woman . ’ |
7 | But although Bob would recognise its shape and energy , this is not the music that ran the borders when he was alive . |
8 | Different majorities could no doubt be found for a diversity of schemes for Northern Ireland , unlike the case in either Scotland or Wales , but this is not the problem there . |
9 | This is not the keeping of the letter by escaping through the loopholes which we have opened up through clever casuistry . |
10 | This is not the mark for either one of those . |
11 | This is not the flip comment it might seem . |
12 | This is not the doctrine adopted by Finnis and I would have to show that the arguments applied here could be applied equally effectively to the very much more sophisticated account presented in Natural Law and Natural Rights . |
13 | With the Sparcstation 10 costing what is does , this is not the machine to bring ISDN to everybody 's desktop , however it will serve as a valuable platform for demonstrating its potential . |
14 | The corresponding Jamaican word is [ bada ] , with RP / / /d/ , but this is not the adaptation made by the speaker , who bases her adaptation on the London form " bovver " ( [ del> ] ) . |
15 | This is not the Gospel according to Scrooge . |
16 | This is not the stuff of which marriages are made , and it is quite clear that if United do not improve what Celtic consider to be a derisory offer for the Scotland captain , who has made 50 international appearances , there will be no union . |
17 | Even if we have another homicide on our hands this is not the scene of the crime . |
18 | Yet while empty part of wall or canvas feels sloppy , unfinished , this is not the case with the glass . |
19 | This is not the case with sugar , honey , grape must , cloves and other spices which increase its merit . |
20 | They are often told that gross over-ruddering is needed to spin , but this is not the case . |
21 | Surprisingly , some people think it is possible to score simply by sweeping the opponent , but this is not the case . |
22 | This is not the case in non- autistic mentally handicapped children , who do well on false belief tasks so long as their mental age , by other criteria , is above three years . |
23 | If you move on or after the 1st April 1991 you will normally lose the reduction although there are certain circumstances when this is not the case . ’ |
24 | If this is not the case and the core is affected by an additional external field , a small change takes place in the output . |
25 | This is not the case , though , if the proposed subject is outside the catchment area of school and university examinations , as Terry Lovell discovered when she offered to write a book on Gissing for a leftwing series , which had asked for one on Jane Austen . |
26 | In a neo-Stalinist society in the 1990s , this is not the case , and therein lies one of Mr Gorbachev 's key dilemmas . |
27 | This is not the case . |
28 | This is not the case . |
29 | This is not the case with the new satellite system called GPS . |
30 | This is not the case when the level is even just a few feet down . |