Example sentences of "[noun sg] not a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the buyer wanted to own a car not a computer program . |
| 2 | The judge went on to find that not only was the information contained in the manuals and the feasibility study not a trade secret but that the information contained in the feasibility study was too obvious and too vague and unspecific to be caught by any alleged fiduciary duty that the defendants were under . |
| 3 | Do n't be too influenced either by colour — you can often buy pvc liners in blue or ‘ stone ’ ( buff or beige ) , but you 're constructing a pond not a swimming pool , and mud and algae will soon hide or discolour the liner below water level , and every part that shows above can look glaringly conspicuous . |
| 4 | Its white , openly gay editor Jonathan Van Meter says he 's a journalist not a hip hop artists , but this assertion ( and the fact that other staff members are gay ) did n't stop Russell Simmons , Def Jam owner and Jones ' original partner in the project , from resigning — because of ‘ philosophical differences ’ rooted in hip hop 's general ambivalence towards homosexuals . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's about a musician not a disarmament conference . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When is a rental level not a rental level ? ’ they asked . |
| 7 | That 's Andrea Chezeris , your other driver of course not a household name |
| 8 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 9 | Bowes Museum is an art museum not a theme park , exercising children 's eyes and minds — their curiosity , powers of observation and fledgling intelligence — rather than taking them on a rollercoaster ride . |
| 10 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 11 | My own reading of the evidence is that the wide ranging family network ( Rosser and Harris 's ‘ extended family ’ ) is fast losing all functional significance and , that being so , the elementary family of conjugal pair and children is reverting to its original condition — once again it is a domestic group not a kinship group . |
| 12 | Question : When is a fax modem not a fax modem ? |
| 13 | In an analysis of camera angles Rich demonstrated that despite its ostensible anti-porn content Not a Love Story in fact reproduced the voyeuristic position which lends pornography its appeal . |
| 14 | By privileging medicine in the administration of the new service , separating hospitals from local authority responsibilities for prevention and after care , and leaving the power and independence of the teaching hospitals intact , Bevan created a medical service not a health service . |
| 15 | This is a theatre not a barrack room . |
| 16 | We need an antibiotic not a cough medicine |
| 17 | When is a swimming costume not a swimming costume ? |
| 18 | In the middle of the recession , the economy needs new impetus not a tax cut . |