Example sentences of "[coord] be not [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From now on I will use the term " marriage " simply to denote the institution immediately under discussion without prejudging the issue as to whether the different kinds of " marriage " thus presented are or are not members of a single logical class . |
| 2 | Gandhi and Nehru , Mandela and Mugabe , or for that matter the late Zulfikhar Bhutto , who complained about the absence of a sense of Pakistani nationhood , are or were not nationalists in the sense of Landsbergis or Tudjman . |
| 3 | So often , it was claimed , local government was not the voice of the local community — election turnouts were derisory , elections were fought on national rather than local issues , and many voters were council employees ( with , therefore , a vested interest in greater spending ) , council house tenants ( with an interest in subsidized rents ) , or were not ratepayers at all . |
| 4 | Alternatively , if the target is a company which is not listed , or is not part of a listed group , then it is likely that the shareholders will be limited in number , accessible and able to agree to proceed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Recognising that management structures and procedures exist to facilitate action and are not ends in themselves . |
| 7 | If they became angry at things said to them by professionals , as a majority of them did at some point , the horrifying causes of their anger were true , and were not projections of their own distress on to the professional concerned . |
| 8 | The unspoken subtext of Barley 's amusing odyssey in search of Raffles is this : was all western imperialism really so bad , and were not men like Raffles far better rulers than the exploiters , white and brown , who came before and after them ? |
| 9 | And were n't defectors like displaced persons , small and shabby with cardboard suitcases . |
| 10 | The meeting booked for 20th May is a one-off to discuss one item only and is n't part of the normal sequence . |
| 11 | The oil tank is made from polypropylene and is not part of the main frame . |
| 12 | Mr Keith Pavey , the architect responsible for the project , says , ‘ Car parks are a much-maligned building type and it is rare to have the opportunity to design one that stands alone and is not part of an office block , shopping centre or other development . ’ |
| 13 | It should be noted that , in particular , the percentage completion is a difficult subjective judgement , probably made by the project leader , and is not part of the program . |
| 14 | However , there is a distinct intensional structure underlying them ( again , the underlining is purely to indicate which P we are interested in , and is not part of our notational system ) : ( 47 ) That is , users of English interpret the relation between the property of the adjective and the word or phrase which instantiates the preceding entity in just the same way as they would interpret the relation between a predicative adjective and the subject in an explicit clause ; it therefore seems reasonable to call adjectives so used clausal adjectives . |
| 15 | Alford distinguishes the lay popular interest in development of services as the third and largely repressed force : it is not organized as a permanent lobby and is not party to the agenda setting between the monopolists and the rationalizers . |
| 16 | Section 24 may also be used by a hotelier who is prosecuted under s.14 where the overbooking was due to the actions or default of the receptionist or reception manager and was not part of the hotelier 's policy . |
| 17 | The respondents avoid this difficulty by submitting that requiring and delivering the wrappers was merely a condition which gave a qualification to buy and was not part of the consideration for sale . |
| 18 | No freehold property is mentioned in his will , but his goods , chattels and savings constituted quite a nice little nest-egg for his sons and his daughter — and was not ambition for one 's children one of the marks of a Victorian middle-class man ? |
| 19 | Completion must be her watchword now , whatever admissions it entailed ; and was not completion at the very heart of the Coniunctio — the central symbol which had proved the stumbling-stone of her work ? |
| 20 | I did n't understand it or share it and was n't part of it . |
| 21 | Gymnemins from Gymnema sylvestre ( Asclepiadaceae ) remove the sense of sweetness in some mammalian tongues , but are not deterrent to caterpillars and have less effect on dogs or rabbits than they do on apes . |
| 22 | But is n't Manto near the Italian border ? |
| 23 | Q : But is n't marriage about partnership , trust ? |
| 24 | He admires this tradition , but is not part of it . |
| 25 | This fact is strikingly obvious to a linguist listening carefully to a conversation , but is not part of the " folk linguistics " of the community itself , who usually talk in terms of either speaking " ordinary English " or " chattin' Patois " . |
| 26 | But there are other bits of information you might want to give , like a photo opportunity , like a particular thing , something specific happening which related to the press release but 's not part of it . |