Example sentences of "[is] not [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord St John of Fawsley , chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission , who , as Norman St John Stevas , was an early ministerial victim of Mrs Thatcher 's purge of the wets , has admonished the Prime Minister by reminding her she is not head of state ; treating her as such , his lordship suggested , would simply arouse public hostility . |
| 2 | This conflicts with earlier reports that Cu(I) gets incorporated into ZNO in the methanol synthesis catalyst ( but as Couves et al write , ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ ) . |
| 3 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 4 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 5 | On such a view , in so far as pragmatics is concerned with context , it can be claimed that by definition pragmatics is not part of competence , and thus not within the scope of grammatical descriptions . |
| 6 | And so you have then a political system in which you , which you have a presidency er faced by a powerful legislature , a president who is not part of legislature but who has to lead the legislature without any significant controls over it a very difficult and demanding task . |
| 7 | If that is not proof of lack of investment , what is ? |
| 8 | The worst sin in an engineering material is not lack of strength or lack of stiffness , desirable as these properties are , but lack of toughness , that is to say , lack of resistance to the propagation of cracks . |
| 9 | The obstacle to disarmament in this case is not ambitions of superiority but the fear on each side of being tricked into a position of inferiority . |
| 10 | Is not dread of thirst when your well is full , the thirst that is unquenchable ? |
| 11 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 12 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 13 | There is no pain of loss in this doubt , no agonizing uncertainty , no straining desire for a solution : The desired goal is not recovery of faith but a respectable cover for retreat from faith . |
| 14 | It is widely recognised that it is not production of food but the low level of demand for food that is the problem for many and for varied reasons related to the forces and relations of production in which people are involved . |
| 15 | It is not priority of occupation , but the power to utilise , which established a claim to the land . |
| 16 | Saunders begins by equating reproduction with consumption and by arguing that production-derived class is not determinant of consumption position . |
| 17 | So it 's not kind of country cottage style . |
| 18 | that 's not proof of ownership |
| 19 | It 's not tablets of stone which have been brought down from Mount Sinai forever to remain unalterable . |
| 20 | But it 's not convention of course , to pay the minister anything is it ? |
| 21 | That 's that 's that 's not that 's not part of part of our er our proposal . |
| 22 | Right but do n't forget to put your brackets on it 's not sort of sine of nine X squared it 's |
| 23 | But it 's not ease of use which made WordPerfect the best seller . |
| 24 | And the counter-arguments to this is that there is n't lack of information , people know they 're not going to get a job , but they 're still better off to move , so that 's a rubbish theory . |
| 25 | This is n't evidence of decadence or decline , it 's evidence of the spreading of wealth and the sharing of privilege . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not as if there is n't masses of stone around , ’ agreed Sacco . |
| 27 | Erm if you wish to proceed with this proposal , I would suggest perhaps that erm it is n't uncertainty of responsibility but perhaps the extent of responsibilities and powers of the various agencies which need to be clarified and I , it is , it is pro probably that area which erm will be addressed by er th the analysis which takes place erm after the immediate problems are behind us er but certainly the implications for the Strategic Planning Committee erm and for , perhaps for local planning or something which erm the Chief Officers could be asked to report back to this Committee . |