Example sentences of "[is] not a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinicians need to be aware that this condition is not a rarity in later life but is a quite common cause of ill health and misery . |
| 2 | The passage continues , ‘ More accurately , it is not a fallacy in the words of reasoning , but rather in its fallacious identification . |
| 3 | It should be stressed that this is not a qualification in interpreting or community work . |
| 4 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 5 | Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’ |
| 6 | Firstly , it is said that this is not a case in which interim relief is appropriate or possible at all . |
| 7 | It is not a relationship in which rules are kept because of either fear or the belief that such action will bring some reward . |
| 8 | which of the following names is not a bone in the body a femur , patella , radius , cornea or temporal |
| 9 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
| 10 | There is not a school in the land that does n't teach mathematics and English . |
| 11 | For if you were such a brain , then , provided that the scientist is successful , nothing in your experience could possibly reveal that you were ; for your experience is ex hypothesi identical with that of something which is not a brain in a vat . |
| 12 | This book is not a text in method and neither will its empirical core be used as a peg for methodological debates . |
| 13 | 1880 , moreover , is not a date in religious history , even if the French abolished military chaplains and the British parliament opened parish churchyards to nonconformist burial services in that year . |
| 14 | Three days after the Cid had departed King Bucar came into the port of Valencia , and landed with all his power , which was so great that there is not a man in the world who could give account of the Moors whom he brought . |
| 15 | With regard to the Greater York bias , the Greater York bias he refers to is simply a bias towards where the opportunities for development exist in Greater York , it is not a bias in any other sense than in terms of its distribution . |
| 16 | The librarian is not a specialist in information in general , but in information about records . |
| 17 | In the case of hearing and touch this is clear ; strictly speaking , what we hear is not a coach in which we might travel , but rather its noise . |
| 18 | The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society . |
| 19 | Sitting here as a British judge it is my duty to tell you that this is not a country in which there is one law for the rich and another for the poor . |
| 20 | Meeting this level of demand from indigenous energy resources is not a problem in Canada , currently a net energy exporter and certain to increase its exports of gas and coal in the future . |
| 21 | I can understand that with competitions it is correct for employees of all companies involved to be excluded from entry , but surely there is not a problem in selling Hovis to your employees , or any other product for that matter ? |
| 22 | By definition , racing is not a sport in which you can quit when you 're ahead of the game . |
| 23 | ‘ There is not a gap in terms of money , ’ says Amies . |
| 24 | The reason why this happens would take too long to explain here , but it is not a fault in the program as you might be tempted to think ! |
| 25 | Although this is not a matter in respect of which we are asked to grant any relief , I believe that Lautro should reconsider its practice in this respect , and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had the opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded and to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board have ruled in the application . |
| 26 | Two 's company , three 's a crowd , but when you 're talking about this generalized and more desexualized supplemented narcissistic libido to do with ego , then of course three is not a crowd in fact three erm is , is , er is the is er just as easy to accommodate as three thousand or three million , because it 's , it can be channelled into the group . |
| 27 | By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available . |
| 28 | The true danger to English today , according to Mr Francis , is not a decline in standards from some mythical golden age in the 1930s or the eighteenth century , but that the National Curriculum will stifle imagination , and mark a return to over-emphasis on rigid expository forms . |
| 29 | Remember , HIV is not a risk in these situations , but there are other nasty germs around . |
| 30 | ‘ Old age ’ is not a disease in itself , and it is not helpful to think of the problems which face older people as being caused ‘ by their age ’ . |