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 .
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