Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] not [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Richard Thorne whose practice is not fund holding says it reinforces his fear that the system is two-tier … |
| 2 | Kenneth Leech makes a similar point ‘ spiritual guidance is not crisis intervention but a continuous process , the movement to God and in God ’ |
| 3 | Rubber Girl is not Coast Guard approved . |
| 4 | The water is not azure blue . |
| 5 | If DELAY is not zero control is immediately returned to the main program , but if DELAY has reached zero the next step command is sent to the excitation sequence control and DELAY is loaded with the next value from the look-up table — The times between step commands are therefore proportional to the ( constant ) clock period and the look.up table values . |
| 6 | Atwood says her novel is n't science fiction , though it clearly is . |
| 7 | The cause is not signal splatter ; the noise which annoys the deaf is at a much lower frequency . |
| 8 | Erm the new settlement is n't r demand is there . |
| 9 | User is not package manager |
| 10 | A 16th Century gold pendant found by a Merseyside metal detecting enthusiast is not Treasure Trove , an inquest jury has decided . |
| 11 | And yet tonight , in the quiet of this room , I find that what really remains with me from this first day 's travel is not Salisbury Cathedral , nor any of the other charming sights of this city , but rather that marvellous view encountered this morning of the rolling English countryside . |
| 12 | Those at the conference table are not Palestine Liberation Organisation representatives working out of Tunis but people who actually live in the occupied territories , who have been deprived of their homeland , as they see it , and who are now looking to the future and trying to negotiate some kind of settlement . |
| 13 | I 'm quite sure that material is n't fire retardant . |
| 14 | Weather is not tennis weather , though , cold and damp . |
| 15 | In Parliament Jackson 's principal interest was not party politics , rather the promotion of West Hartlepool . |
| 16 | When I won an essay competition in 1957 on " Why I was proud to be a citizen of Leeds " , organised by the Variety Club of Great Britain and the local evening paper , the big event in my London visit was not Buckingham Palace , nor having Norman Wisdom put his arm round me , but gazing at a skiffle group which had played in the 21's coffee bar with Tommy Steele . |