Example sentences of "[is] not the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 2 | In a way , there is no terrible indignity in this — it is not the tennis equivalent of Randolph Turpin 's sordid tour of the halls as a wrestler — but even so , it is difficult to see what Borg is aiming to get out of this renewed struggle . |
| 3 | Minimising — admitting that one or two staff members drink a bit or perhaps use a bit of cannabis or maybe occasionally get into trouble with the consequences of drinking too much but insisting that the Company has more important problems to deal with and that it is not the Company rule nor responsibility to deal with these problems . |
| 4 | It is not the element cost . |
| 5 | Of course paying customers want to see a winning side , and they want superficial honours like League titles and Cup runs , but that is not the Whaddon way . |
| 6 | Lower grade paper is presently in surplus and as yet there is not the mill capacity to deal with it all . |
| 7 | Have no doubt in your mind about that because we did not take one of our representatives to negotiate with the guard force to enhance your and their membership that is not the ball game I 'm not playing it and we wo n't do that and you can rest assured we will pursue it to Bridlington if need be . |
| 8 | This last is not the day.today catering provided by a commercial restaurant , a hotel dining room or a canteen , but catering at one-off " events " . |
| 9 | However , it is not the Structure Plan 's job to show specific sites for development . |
| 10 | Is not the success story of the present Government 's policy the fact that they have managed to turn British Steel into a profit-making industry ? |
| 11 | But it is not the exercise mode that interests me the most . |
| 12 | This is not the principle aim of Capitalism Socialism and Democracy ( written in 1942 ) , but it is the longest lasting element of that work , which actually Schumpeter wrote to demonstrate the inevitable and regrettable emergence of socialism ( as he defined it ) after the Second World War . |
| 13 | For women , in contrast , discontinuity is not the core experience , and relationships are not perceived as violent . |
| 14 | To count such comments as these as indicative of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with housework may perhaps be criticized on the grounds that what these women are talking about is not the housework situation , but marriage . |
| 15 | it is not the Armageddon situation that suggest . |
| 16 | To always smile , never to cry — it is a dream , but it is not the way life is . ’ |
| 17 | And now the main enemy is not the perpetuity rule , but fiscal legislation . |
| 18 | The point Bourdieu makes versus structural anthropology is that it is not the marriage rule ( or genealogy ) that counts , but the economic and political strategies of the lineage . |
| 19 | It is not the voice volume alone that makes speech understandable . |
| 20 | Ms Radice correctly reasons that her constituency is not the art community , but Congress , which authorises and funds the endowment , and which represents the American people in toto . |
| 21 | Okay , so this is not the price list you 're used to , this is the D I Y price list . |
| 22 | Considerable effort has been expended to reduce the dependence upon written language when this is not the subject matter of the test , for example , in science use is made of oral presentations of questions . |
| 23 | Ben Nevis is not the killer mountain it is often represented to be in the popular press . |
| 24 | Meat is not the staple item in a chimp diet but a desirable extra . |
| 25 | It is clear that the ‘ underlying ’ norm : ( [ Ε ] ) , is not the RP norm , even though the movement towards [ aI ] may be modelled on some external norm . |
| 26 | Is not the Polaris fleet plagued with cracks to the nuclear reactor , and has not the game been given away by Mr. Reg Farmer , a former member of the Ministry of Defence safety of nuclear warships committee ? |
| 27 | It is often pondered as to who was or is Henley 's ‘ best ’ golfer , assuming it is not the record holder . |
| 28 | I must point out that the 11 tries against Ireland is not the record number of tries conceded by an IB country . |
| 29 | This is not the autograph manuscript of the poem , but it is an autograph manuscript of Robert Browning 's , since it is in his hand . |
| 30 | THE Rubik cube is not the Rubik cube the world over . |