Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] is [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They must have decided in Cas that she is n't hepatitis , ’ said Juliet .
2 And because she ca n't accept that she is n't lady of the bloody manor after all ! ’
3 Pretending that general practice is something that it is not runs the risk of people remarking on the emperor 's new suit of clothes .
4 I will continue Mr Mayor that it is not meanness it is practical caring Conservative policy to ensure that this happens .
5 President Bush claimed , during the election campaign , that his ‘ dog Millie knew more about foreign policy than Bill Clinton ’ and there is much evidence to suggest that it is not Clinton 's strongest card .
6 I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ .
7 And if it be objected that A may act first ( against B ) and explain why afterwards , whereupon B acts to C 's detriment , the answer is that it is not A's act which has caused C 's loss but the implied threat that it will be repeated .
8 I have to , I have to make it er perfectly clear that it is not part of the official business of the meeting .
9 In this way the lawyer has a part to play within political movements , such as the peace movement , while acknowledging that it is not law alone that can bring about the changes we desire , but it is that movement as a whole that can and must do so .
10 What is significant , however , is that it is not Peter , but Jesus 's brother James who presides over the ‘ Church ’ in Jerusalem .
11 Mr Wakeley feels that it is not cost effective to use more machines : ‘ You ca n't have all your staff training at the same time .
12 It is concluded that oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation confers no benefit over endoscopic sclerotherapy in terms of long term survival and that it is not cost effective as judged by the current health care costs in the United Kingdom .
13 It goes without saying that it is not £75,000 in respect of each but the total earnings ’ figure which must not exceed £75,000 .
14 Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision .
15 It is important to emphasise again that it is not dominance in itself which is contrary to Article 86 , but the abuse of that dominance .
16 If there is dilution of over 5% , the fully diluted earnings per share should be disclosed or the fact that it is not material should be stated .
17 Not only are there dangers that a particular tab of E contains strychnine or whatever , there is also the chance that it is not E at all .
18 It should be stressed that it is not nearness to industry per se which drew agricultural wages upwards , but proximity to the expanding newer industrial regions .
19 It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition .
20 Recognise that it is not God 's will that Satan strip mission field workers through sickness .
21 A good reason then for thinking that it is not God 's will that women be ordained is that the church has never done so .
22 Will my right hon. Friend assure the House , however , that , before large amounts of financial aid are made available , he will make it clear to the Russian people and Government that it is not Governments but people who create wealth ?
23 The key notion is that it is not events themselves which produce depression , but their meaning to the individual person .
24 Is it not clear that it is not ambulance staff which have withdrawn the emergency cover from London , but the management ? ’
25 Although this seems clever when one is told about it , a few minutes-hands-on experience demonstrates that it is not AI at all — it is a parlour trick .
26 It is widely recognised that it is not production of food but the low level of demand for food that is the problem for many and for varied reasons related to the forces and relations of production in which people are involved .
27 This decline could support the generational cohort theory developed by Butler and Stokes : that is , that it is not age as such that influences voting behaviour but the period at which one becomes politically aware .
28 The thing about it is that it is not death of the body that is important to us , it 's the soul .
29 For example , to say of what is in fact honey that it is n't honey , or of what is n't honey that it is , is false ; whereas to say of what is honey that it is honey , or of what is n't that it is n't , is true .
30 And if it is n't honey , the absence of that taste will cause Pooh to believe that it is n't honey .
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