Example sentences of "[am/are] not [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As most bilingual students studying subjects are not beginners in English this experience more truly reflects their situation than does a lesson in a totally new language .
2 There are certain other contracts which are not contracts of sale of goods but which are analogous contracts because the ownership of goods passes under them , e.g. contracts of exchange and barter and contracts for labour and materials supplied ( see Chapter 8 above ) .
3 Chapels are not improvements to coal houses .
4 It is also supposed that comparison between welfare gained or lost for different people is , though still difficult , less intractably so , if what is in question are not qualities of feeling but the satisfactions of behaviourally manifested preferences .
5 Amis observes that many of the newly discovered poets in the anthology are not masters of form , but must be read for their ‘ realism ’ , that is , for content :
6 Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements , but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief .
7 These are not wars of religion but conflicts between communities which have different religions ; no side tries to convert the other .
8 Of course some policemen and women , at the other extreme , welcomed the research as an opportunity to talk about issues which are so often taken for granted among colleagues and family that they are not topics of conversation .
9 As I have said they are not cases of estoppel in the strict sense .
10 In general , although offer letters are not legally binding , the buyer 's solicitors will insist that at least those clauses discussed below are not subject to contract , but are legally binding obligations on the parties .
11 When sold later in life , they are not subject to tax again but a dealer is subject to paying 15/115ths of his profit .
12 This chapter is intended for those who are not teachers of reading but who , as parents , teachers , and librarians , wish to support both the specialist teachers and the learner-readers .
13 Holdings of unit trusts plainly are not holdings of money , neither are the periodic bonuses accumulated on a with-profits life assurance policy .
14 But in the seventeenth century some philosophers , such as Descartes and Malebranche , had extended this to saying that tastes and colours are , like pains , simply subjective modifications , and are not properties of material objects after all .
15 These are not moments of thirst … but nor are they causes of drunkenness ( unless one tries to pack all such experiences into one day ) .
16 It has been said , for example , that Victorian interiors are not reflections of taste , they are memorials to personality .
17 They presuppose that the particularities of different classrooms are not determinants of teaching and learning but are incidental .
18 These people were to be their ‘ lay ’ representatives , as , of course , the Panel Hearings are not Courts of Law , and lawyers as such have no role there .
19 He argues further that what we see , ‘ the immediate objects of sight ’ , are not things in space at a distance from us , but ideas in the mind .
20 They are not lumps of clay awaiting the potter 's wheel of their parents ' influence to fashion their personalities , but equal partners in taking initiatives and creating contretemps .
21 Note that the operations performed in this algorithm are not part of mathematics .
22 But to return to the composition of foregrounds , there are not instructions about man and animals .
23 Kiltmakers have never been so popular with men who are not members of pipe bands .
24 Without doubt , the construction of such a hegemonic bloc for socialist objectives must involve winning the support of many people who regard themselves as ‘ middle class ’ or of no class , many who have never considered themselves socialists , many who are not members of trade unions , by colonising and re-defining the notion of the popular or national interest ( while avoiding chauvinism and the opportunistic erasure of real social differences ) .
25 Game show contestants are NOT members of hippy convoys
26 They are not times for conflict and confrontation but opportunities for co-operation and celebration .
27 Teachers are not figures of respect in my country .
28 KPMG are not auditors to Target .
29 These are not tensors for example is the cosine of the angle between the 1 " -axis and the 2-axis .
30 These men , you will remember , often come to our MRA assemblies , and told the British press last summer , ‘ we are not apostles of apartheid ; we are champions of change . ’
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