Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My feeling ( although I am not the best judge ) was that the Workshop was a complete success in that it involved the participants in exploring the intellectual bases of their subject , and led them from there to the practical rethinking of their teaching methods and curricula . |
| 2 | And if on your coming to England I am not the first person you look for , I shall be very hurt indeed ! |
| 3 | I am not the only person left in the world . |
| 4 | I am not the only person who has had a tumultuous year , and I am immensley proud of the way the British face their problems and so often succeed despite them . |
| 5 | And I am not the only woman who wants a fulfilling working life and domesticity as well . |
| 6 | I AM sure I am not the only woman who wept in sympathy , shame and anger at the outrage done to the people of Warrington . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not the slightest bit embarrassed by my holiday arrangements , ’ Mellor had told a reporter from the People . |
| 8 | Naturally , brothers are not the best judges of a sister 's sex-appeal . |
| 9 | However let's get into the real world and realize that er that medical people are not the best marketeers in the world . |
| 10 | ARM British and French congratulations to Mr Helmut Kohl for his allies ' victory in the East German election are not the best gauge of how the West German chancellor is viewed in London and Paris . |
| 11 | Articles in industry are not the best preparation for private practice , and unless you have a fairly fixed intention to make your career in industry or commerce you may find it difficult to settle down even for only two or three years in the atmosphere of a company 's legal department . |
| 12 | Pesticides alone are not the best way to achieve long term control of agricultural pests . |
| 13 | As we have seen , parents are not the best communicators of sex education . |
| 14 | But if parents are not the best judge , and doctors themselves may not always be fully conversant with a real understanding of the facts , who will be the ultimate arbiter ? |
| 15 | These are not the best conditions in which to study an animal — certainly , no psychologist would dare to make assumptions about normal human abilities by studying imprisoned young orphans ! |
| 16 | When it comes into play , some of the ultimate answers are not the best ones . ’ |
| 17 | Are not the best chances for employment in the city of Leicester and the county of Leicestershire today 's Budget and the re-election of the Conservative Government ? |
| 18 | This being the case , summer weekends are not the best time to visit . |
| 19 | Garden centres are not the best places to buy hedging plants in large numbers : specimens are usually larger than is ideal ( large plants take longer to establish ) and more expensive than small plants bought by the dozen or hundred from specialist nurseries . |
| 20 | Castigation and exhortation are not the best ways of doing that seeking . |
| 21 | Secondly , is not now the time for the Government seriously to consider an independent inspection service for complaints because in many cases — pindown was one , Leicestershire is another and I understand that there may be further examples at Wrexham and Bangor — the local authorities are not the best bodies to investigate the complaints ? |
| 22 | If this had been so , however , it would have been a weakness : the strength of our arguments on social network ( and other social aspects of the research ) depends precisely on the fact that these socially-based criteria are not the motivating factors for our selection of linguistic variables . |
| 23 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 24 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 25 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 26 | When fear keeps them awake at night , parents would do well to remember that thousands of teenagers try things and then move on , that people of all ages make regular use of drugs as part of their happy , productive lives and , above all , that we are not the hapless victims of some depraved international conspiracy . |
| 27 | Tipperary after local opposition , saying the Raybestos case was worse as the Ovens objectors were trying to force changes after the statutory period for planning objections had long passed : ‘ Foreign companies coming to this country and adhering to our planning conditions will begin wondering if they can go ahead at all if they see the assurances of the IDA and the planning authorities are not the final assurances . ’ |
| 28 | Judges are not the first species that springs to mind as a faithful tribune of popular perception . |
| 29 | Spitting and firing are not the first words to spring to mind when Yorkshire 's venerable left-arm spinner Phil Carrick is mentioned . |
| 30 | The light-sensitive cells ( " photocells " ) are not the first thing the light hits , but they are buried inside and facing away from the light . |