Example sentences of "[art] [adj] be [not/n't] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rich were not a hereditary class , for most wealthy men were self-made . |
| 2 | The second is not a serious problem , but one that foreign learners should be aware of . |
| 3 | Which of the following is not a mouthbrooder : Shark Catfish , Severum , Egyptian Mouthbrooder ? |
| 4 | Which of the following is not a subjective statement : |
| 5 | I ca n't remember I think it was Louise who br I went up to talk to her , and the question was , which of follow which of the following is not a swimming stroke and you have butterfly , breast stroke , bird crawl . |
| 6 | This , see I just thought it was just cos , you know , and he kept stressing it , which of the following is not a swimming stroke , breast stroke , butterfly or bird crawl . |
| 7 | It was found that the swelling was not a tumour but an aneurysma large swelling of a blood vessel . |
| 8 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |
| 9 | On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable . |
| 10 | The latter was not a forceful intrusion , because local elevation changes were far too small and the lack of seismicity implies that magma did not force the surrounding rock apart . |
| 11 | The latter was not a goal which Laura espoused , nor was she comfortable working in such a formal setting . |
| 12 | The scriptible is not a thing but a process , and is therefore not assimilable to the structures of poetics . |
| 13 | The Fifties were not a permissive era . |
| 14 | The Eighties were not a particularly good time for the young . |
| 15 | The development of the television subgenre of the novelistic is not a completed form and may never reach classical definition , but it can be traced historically from forms of narrative inherited from radio , theatre and popular entertainment to forms more appropriate to the specific conditions of television . |
| 16 | It has to be remembered that Britain of the 1920s was not a land of milk and honey . |
| 17 | The first is not a lot of use in an indirect system , since once the mains stopcock has been turned off , most of the water left in the rising main can be drained out from the kitchen tap . |
| 18 | Contrary to what our readers may believe the above is not a description of Europe after the arrival of solicitors ' rights of audience . |
| 19 | The former is not a contract for the sale of specific goods ; whereas , if the seller has just 12 bottles of port in stock , the latter is a contract for the sale of specific goods . |
| 20 | ‘ Swinging London ’ of the mid-sixties was not a particularly exciting place for ‘ queer people ’ as we called ourselves . |
| 21 | Identical spellings for words that sound the same are not a real problem . |
| 22 | Cos two to the two is n't a brilliant example , let's let's think what would this mean ? |
| 23 | They allow us to describe , as the episteme of a period , not the sum of its knowledge , nor the general style of its research , but the deviation , distances , the oppositions , the differences , the relations of its multiple scientific discourses : the epistemic is not a sort of grand underlying theory , it is a space of dispersion , it is an open field of relationships and no doubt indefinitely specifiable . |
| 24 | but I query as well , whether just because you reduce the number of spa passengers in it that you , you , you do n't need a P S V licence , or the equivalent is n't a P S V licence but it 's , it 's |
| 25 | So that 's a that is n't a straight logarithmic curve , but that 's a thing that occurs in nature a lot and in electrical circuits , that 's a growth curve . |
| 26 | But wh what they said to me was although erm although it 's not a driving is not a major part of and your role was changing and whatever that means |
| 27 | Buddhists , indeed , have insisted that there is nothing supernatural about such enlightenment : the visions , ecstasies and other alternative states of consciousness experienced by an adept are not a meeting with an alien , divine reality but are natural to the human condition , even though most people have not developed this spiritual potential within themselves . |