Example sentences of "[am/are] not [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
| 2 | Such piscatorial matters are not normally the column 's province , of course . |
| 3 | Where there is coverage of such systems as potential IT-based contributors to improved corporate strategy , the reference will be to systems that are not normally the province of librarians and information scientists ( such as financial market systems , credit-rating services ) ; or it will be to videotex-based systems which most librarians and information scientists would n't be seen dead using ! ( cf. Prestel ) . |
| 4 | 3.2 Geographical extent Important factors to be considered when examining a geographical area are not simply the distance involved ( usually a radial measurement from a given place ) but the character of the area , the ease of travel/communication and the character of the business in question . |
| 5 | So far , so good , but finding a set of correlations of this sort still says nothing about whether they are necessarily part of the memory formation process unless I can find a way of showing that they are not simply the aftermath of the unpleasant experience of tasting the bitter bead ; that is , I must meet my own third , reductionist criterion . |
| 6 | First , the reasons for the expansion of the social services are not simply the desire and anxiety of successive governments to reduce unemployment , cheaply and speedily , as Bacon and Eltis claim . |
| 7 | Although all these theories flourished during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth , the links between them are not simply the product of historical circumstance . |
| 8 | At this season of the year we should remind ourselves of the parable that neighbours are not simply the people who live next door , rich friends , or even merely those with whom we agree . |
| 9 | These values are not primarily the pursuit of small amounts of money paid in a weekly wage . |
| 10 | In addition , although not technically unfit , a house can still be very unsuitable for the needs of its occupants in terms of accommodation and access to jobs and services , aspects that are not generally the subject of legislation . |
| 11 | But they are not even the heart of it . |
| 12 | Tiny gardens are not just the perogative of new housing estates . |
| 13 | ‘ Through our recognition of the Public Lending Right , we have seen that libraries are not just the repositories of our uniquely rich heritage but resource centres for our communities , important to the quality of our lives . |
| 14 | His falsity and hollowness are not just the opposite of the true and the wholesome , but threaten to undermine it . |
| 15 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 16 | The politics of the inner city problem are not just the surface manifestation of economic imperatives ; here there is no straightforward linear determination of superstructure by base . |
| 17 | This concept has the advantage of stressing that people 's perceptions and beliefs are not just the inheritance of a shared ethnic descent , but are rooted in broader economic structures and material interests . |
| 18 | First of all paragraph one point two , er just pointing out that our members who already reminded , but our customers are not just the residents of Suffolk , but those who actually use the trunk and the county road in |
| 19 | Disused mineral workings are not just the adventure playground of the young and old but provide many recreational needs . |
| 20 | The economics of maintaining a safe environment are not just the concern of government for , through taxation , individuals contribute to the national purse . |
| 21 | Their 10-wicket trouncing of England in the deciding Cornhill Test at the Oval yesterday more than confirmed they are not just the world 's one-day cricket kings . |
| 22 | In effect Bleach are not just the antithesis of The Chart Show , but a challenge to latterday Designer Credibility . |
| 23 | Also , they are not just the result of powerplay within the organization . |
| 24 | Some of the Maritime school go further and ask the question , ‘ Who are We ? ; and answer it by pointing out that We are not just the people living in the United Kingdom today . |
| 25 | Downs claims that the needs and self-interests of officials develop into informal social structures in bureaucracies which are not solely the consequence of goal conflicts and resistance to official objectives but are also designed to ease the process of implementation ( Downs 1967 , pp. 63–5 ) . |
| 26 | Controlling ammonia emissions and ending tax-breaks for commuters who drive their cars to work are not usually the kind of issues which sends voters raging into the polling booths . |
| 27 | The possible divisions between workers considered as car workers , textile workers , railwaymen etc. , are not merely the product of a Machiavellian manipulation on the part of ‘ capital ’ ( although of course managers and politicians may seek to exploit and amplify such divisions ) . |
| 28 | For Leapor , women are not merely the authors of their own misfortunes or , at best , ‘ softer men ’ , but the victims of an unjust order . |
| 29 | The effectiveness of the market for control rests on the proposition ( ’ the efficient market hypothesis ’ ) that stock markets behave rationally , that is , that shares are priced at a level that reflects a company 's prospects under existing management and that prices are not merely the outcome of speculations on the part of market participants about each other 's behaviour , causing price and underlying value to become detached . |
| 30 | They are not perhaps the kind of remarks to be found in Christmas crackers , but they suggest that his humour was bound up with the idea of self-parody : he is mocking the pontifical manner which others associated with him . |