Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not the only person left in the world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I am not the only woman who wants a fulfilling working life and domesticity as well . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 7 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 8 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Flowers are not the sole attraction at Barnsley.Rosemary Verey has also created a decorative vegetable garden.Known as a potager , it mixes vegetables and flowers to create greater variety : |
| 12 | The former school maintained that sensible qualities are not the sole criteria of perceptibility and that time is perceived always as a qualification of sensible objects . |
| 13 | Normally only appropriate where significant reliance has had to be placed on management who are not the sole owners of the business . |
| 14 | Economic factors may be fundamental to rural out-migration but they are not the sole explanations . |
| 15 | The above three case studies bring out a number of points about resourcing the public sector which demonstrate that resourcing issues are not the sole province of the technical experts in the area : accountants and economists . |
| 16 | Such visions can be utilised at all levels within an organisation and are not the sole prerogative of those at the top . |
| 17 | But these sentiments are not the sole property of democratic socialists . |
| 18 | You rightly say in your editorial today ( ‘ Moral fabric in need of repair ’ ) that the sentiments he expresses are not the sole property of democratic socialists . |
| 19 | Moreover , unless the United Kingdom is taken to be consciously disregarding the very international obligations on the basis of which it claims that the requirements at issue are compatible with Community law , the fact that those requirements are applicable only to fishing vessels tends to show that , in the United Kingdom 's eyes also , they are not the sole requirements suitable for ensuring the existence of a ‘ genuine link ’ as required by international law . |
| 20 | Furthermore , as context-stimulus associations are not the sole source of latent inhibition , the model need not be embarrassed by the observation that exposure to the context alone ( either before or after exposure to the target stimulus ) does not abolish the effect . |
| 21 | But value-added resellers are not the sole focus for the present drive which has apparently attracted over 400 dealers so far , at a rate of around 20 to 30 a month . |
| 22 | They are not the rich bachelors or the yuppies that the Labour party fears ; two thirds of single people entitled to discounts will be over 60 , single pensioners , widows and widowers , and many more are single parents . |
| 23 | They are not the monolithic structures which they are often presented as being . |
| 24 | I think the real English gardens are not the manicured lawns of the home counties ( usually nurtured by someone ‘ who comes to do the garden ’ ) but precisely these little pocket handkerchief gardens and allotments ; places of little rugs and doormats and tiny bits of land for which rain is prayed , cultivated with beans and tomatoes and cabbages and roses , a respite from the rest of life , where people are autonomous , in control of something they are making . |
| 25 | Clearly , despite their terribly twee name , pudding-bowl haircuts and crap clothes , they are not the washed-up jangle group their detractors would have you believe . |
| 26 | If these are not the required SPRs , you can BS to the scrolled area and make any necessary changes . |
| 27 | If these are not the required SPRs , you can BS to the scrolled area and make any necessary changes . |
| 28 | If these are not the required SPRs , you can BS to the scrolled area and make any necessary changes . |
| 29 | If these are not the required modules , you can BS to the scrolled area and make any necessary changes . |
| 30 | If these are not the required DCs , you can BS to the scrolled area and make any necessary changes . |