Example sentences of "[am/are] not [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not flavour of the week in some quarters as you may well imagine . |
| 2 | Thus the two columns of section 2 are not opposites in the way that the two columns of section 1 appear to be . |
| 3 | But these are not instances of the academic community acting concertedly as a single corporate body , being self-critical about its own internal affairs and activities . |
| 4 | Contrary to rumour our Clubreps are not Masters of the Universe , although even we admit that one or two of them seem superhuman . |
| 5 | Profits à prendre are rights to take things of value ( other than water ) from land , such as the right of common pasture , or rights of fishery ( commoners , it should be noticed , are not owners of the common ) . |
| 6 | Instead of trying to change old attitudes we can set out to design new ones which are not descendants of the old ones . |
| 7 | Deaths in detention are not phenomena of the distant past : last year two people were reported as having died in custody . |
| 8 | Having said this , it does not follow that there are not difficulties at a more " elementary " level of language . |
| 9 | Each Discussion Paper is prefaced by a non-technical summary which communicates its essential findings to those who are not specialists in the field . |
| 10 | Books on human evolution are often written by those who are not specialists in the subject and the results can be catastrophic or embarrassing . |
| 11 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
| 12 | These vivid lively scenes are not art in the modern sense of self-expression , but the deliberate exercise of imitative magic to ensure success in the hunt . |
| 13 | Section 1(2) of the Act states that the following are not inventions for the purposes of the Act : ( a ) a discovery , scientific theory or mathematical method ; ( b ) a literary , dramatic , musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation whatsoever ; ( c ) a scheme , rule or method for performing any mental act , playing a game or doing business , or a program for a computer ; ( d ) the presentation of information ; but the foregoing provision shall prevent anything from being treated as an invention for the purposes of this Act only to the extent that a patent or application for a patent relates to that thing as such ( emphasis added ) |
| 14 | The common abuses of public power are not abuses by the sovereign parliament itself . |
| 15 | Without that proof , we would hold it against the conditional theory that it can not even show that we know that we are not brains in a vat . |
| 16 | And I do not know of any other argument , not relying on PC k , which Nozick could use to show that we do not know we are not brains in a vat without showing that we do not know most other things either . |
| 17 | Stroud ( 1984 , ch. 2 ) considers a similar argument against the sceptic 's attempt to generalize from the fact that we do not know we are not brains in a vat . |
| 18 | But these are not canoeists in the true sense . |
| 19 | McCloskey is right , up to a point , in claiming that in cases such as these we have changed the concept : ‘ What we are ascribing and according are not rights in the ordinary sense of rights ’ ( 1975 : 416 ) . |
| 20 | The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term . |
| 21 | Ships like this are not things of a dim past , there were first-class passenger sailing ships on the Australian run within living memory * and there are Admirals alive who first went to sea in wooden sailing ships . |
| 22 | On the sale , the purchaser should not assume any such liabilities as they are not liabilities to the employees . |
| 23 | In the case of members of committees who are not entitled to attendance allowance because they are not councillors of the authority , there is , instead of the attendance allowance , a financial loss allowance in respect of any loss of earnings necessarily suffered , or additional expense incurred ( other than travelling or subsistence allowance ) in performing an approved duty . |
| 24 | The immediate sense-experiences with which his method begins are not part of a systematic record , and are very quickly left behind as one digs below their surface . |
| 25 | If you are not part of a discussion group you can still represent your parish at the Diocesan Assembly and become involved in local and Diocesan events that develop from there . |
| 26 | The following are examples of the three congruence variants : finger is a congruent meronym of hand ; doctor is a hypo-converse of patient , and patient a super-converse of doctor , because , for instance , dentists also have patients ; index is a semi-meronym of book , because there are books without indexes , and indexes which are not part of a book . |
| 27 | Unlike civil servants , local authority employees are not part of a single unified service : each council employs its own staff . |
| 28 | plasters are not part of a first aid box . |
| 29 | But they are a hybrid because , although closely associated with particular groups , they are not part of the web of cross-shareholdings . |
| 30 | Subsidiarity betrays certain assumptions about politics which are not part of the British tradition . |