Example sentences of "[be] not [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are certain other contracts which are not contracts of sale of goods but which are analogous contracts because the ownership of goods passes under them , e.g. contracts of exchange and barter and contracts for labour and materials supplied ( see Chapter 8 above ) . |
| 2 | It is also supposed that comparison between welfare gained or lost for different people is , though still difficult , less intractably so , if what is in question are not qualities of feeling but the satisfactions of behaviourally manifested preferences . |
| 3 | Amis observes that many of the newly discovered poets in the anthology are not masters of form , but must be read for their ‘ realism ’ , that is , for content : |
| 4 | Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements , but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief . |
| 5 | These are not wars of religion but conflicts between communities which have different religions ; no side tries to convert the other . |
| 6 | Of course some policemen and women , at the other extreme , welcomed the research as an opportunity to talk about issues which are so often taken for granted among colleagues and family that they are not topics of conversation . |
| 7 | As I have said they are not cases of estoppel in the strict sense . |
| 8 | This chapter is intended for those who are not teachers of reading but who , as parents , teachers , and librarians , wish to support both the specialist teachers and the learner-readers . |
| 9 | Holdings of unit trusts plainly are not holdings of money , neither are the periodic bonuses accumulated on a with-profits life assurance policy . |
| 10 | But in the seventeenth century some philosophers , such as Descartes and Malebranche , had extended this to saying that tastes and colours are , like pains , simply subjective modifications , and are not properties of material objects after all . |
| 11 | These are not moments of thirst … but nor are they causes of drunkenness ( unless one tries to pack all such experiences into one day ) . |
| 12 | It has been said , for example , that Victorian interiors are not reflections of taste , they are memorials to personality . |
| 13 | They presuppose that the particularities of different classrooms are not determinants of teaching and learning but are incidental . |
| 14 | These people were to be their ‘ lay ’ representatives , as , of course , the Panel Hearings are not Courts of Law , and lawyers as such have no role there . |
| 15 | They are not lumps of clay awaiting the potter 's wheel of their parents ' influence to fashion their personalities , but equal partners in taking initiatives and creating contretemps . |
| 16 | Note that the operations performed in this algorithm are not part of mathematics . |
| 17 | Kiltmakers have never been so popular with men who are not members of pipe bands . |
| 18 | Without doubt , the construction of such a hegemonic bloc for socialist objectives must involve winning the support of many people who regard themselves as ‘ middle class ’ or of no class , many who have never considered themselves socialists , many who are not members of trade unions , by colonising and re-defining the notion of the popular or national interest ( while avoiding chauvinism and the opportunistic erasure of real social differences ) . |
| 19 | Game show contestants are NOT members of hippy convoys |
| 20 | Teachers are not figures of respect in my country . |
| 21 | These men , you will remember , often come to our MRA assemblies , and told the British press last summer , ‘ we are not apostles of apartheid ; we are champions of change . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ These are not politics of principle . |
| 23 | Opinion-based decisions are not issues of principle . |
| 24 | The nests of ants , bees , wasps and other social insects may appear to be marvellously complex examples of animal technology , but they are not examples of tool use . |
| 25 | In other words , that we are not victims of chance and fate , but take an active part in our destiny , which is a spiritual drama . |
| 26 | No one can tell me they are not victims of war . ’ |
| 27 | Game show contestants are NOT carriers of AIDS |
| 28 | and then , they 're not drugs of course . |
| 29 | Does it really help to call them , label them that of practice er Mrs because the end of the day they 're not matters of practice , they 're matters of law . |
| 30 | They did n't want me for pastoral and I 'm not head of department . |