Example sentences of "[is] not the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian communicator is never the primary source of the message in the sense that one is not the originator of that which one is seeking to convey . |
| 2 | With the first instance , we touch on the mysteries of death ; we should be careful not to make too much of the Great Mother as a goddess of birth and death ; she is not the originator of these but rather the one who shapes the coming and guides the going of each life . |
| 3 | There is not the freedom of movement there is with the network system but there is far less deadweight of support staff than there is with the pyramid or layer system . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , that is not the attitude of Tories . |
| 5 | This is not the attitude of any god recognised by popular religion . |
| 6 | Having said that this is not the procedure by which such a measure should reach the statute book , I welcome the Bill because it will result in a long-overdue reform . |
| 7 | Shrewd guessing at tendency is not the jewel in his casket . |
| 8 | I mean , going back to nineteen eighty three for instance , in the whole of er area there was no adult day care at all and in at that time there was only the Road day centre for the learning disabled which , with the best will in the world , is not the jewel in our crown . |
| 9 | Man is not the centre of all things . |
| 10 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 11 | What Brutus or any of the characters ‘ really are ’ is not the centre of their dramatic interest . |
| 12 | The right hon. Gentleman may be prepared to hand over the government of this country to trade unions abroad , but that is not the position of the Conservative party . |
| 13 | But I have to admit that with the exception of the quick GTi and certainly the new 2.8-litre VR6 , the latest Golf is not the kind of car to set the pulses racing . |
| 14 | Frances McAvennie , a former council roadsweeper from Glasgow 's Milton housing scheme , is not the kind of character you immediately associate with brasserie lifestyle . |
| 15 | He is not the kind of bloke who wishes to know his coloured brethren . ’ |
| 16 | After shareholders voted to reject his 30 pence a share offer to take the company private in December , Alan Sugar has some fence-mending to do : Amstrad insists that the personal communicator to be launched next week is not the kind of blockbuster product that will restore the company 's fortunes on its own , but the unexpected first half profit has caused some to feel that Sugar overdid the gloom . |
| 17 | However , the form which such support takes means that it is not the kind of support upon which one could rely . |
| 18 | Mr Wood conjectured , ‘ They could be raising money for the lending institutions , which is not the kind of thing we do ’ . |
| 19 | Frankly , Floorplan Plus is not the kind of program you 're going to use every day — unless you get addicted to moving the furniture , that is , but it does have its uses . |
| 20 | The focus on popular political strategy , on the one hand , and on changes in political representation , on the other , may reveal democratic advance even where there is not the kind of regime change called a ‘ transition to democracy ’ ; so that systems undergoing such complete ( Spain ) or partial ( Brazil ) transitions may be compared to others ( Mexico ) where none have taken place . |
| 21 | It is magnificent , but it is not the kind of historical writing that brings a dead world to life for late twentieth-century students . |
| 22 | This is not the kind of guy who makes polite conversation . |
| 23 | Ours is not the kind of house where you expect to steal jewellery and furs . |
| 24 | But that is not the kind of answer I want to give . |
| 25 | This is not the kind of thing I want my children to read . ’ |
| 26 | The idea of a person , however , is not the idea of a living body of a certain kind . |
| 27 | Is not the act of contracting an exercise of the parties ' moral rights , with the effect that the outcome of the contracting , the company , is legitimated by reference to those rights ? |
| 28 | A constitution is not the act of a government , but of a people constituting a government , and a government without a constitution is power without right … |
| 29 | This is not the call of the entertainers or the edutainers . |
| 30 | And is not the Church of England the best of all Christian churches ? |