Example sentences of "be not an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I am not an expert on any aspect of the subject on which I am to speak . |
| 2 | ‘ Alas , I am not an expert in these machines , ’ he said , ‘ but my nightwatchman here reports … ’ |
| 3 | The difficulty is I am not an employee of yours , so I hope they accept it . |
| 4 | ‘ Guy , my name may be Chester , but I am not an employee of Sarah Chester Fabrics . |
| 5 | I am not an optimist by nature , but since coming to this country I have blessed by good fortune . |
| 6 | ‘ Shelley , I am not an amateur in matters of love . |
| 7 | You are not an assessor of the specified Design Change ( DC ) . |
| 8 | The chairman of the Bar Council , Mr. Tony Scrivener — I hope that the remarks of Conservative Members from a sedentary position are not an attack on the Bar Council , which I think all of us would regard as an important and esteemed body . |
| 9 | The initial word ‘ everyone ’ in Article 25 ( and in most of the other Articles ) — however illogically linked with ‘ his family ’ — contains the same fallacy as ‘ all men ’ in the Declaration of 1776 : ‘ rights ’ are not an attribute of individuals but a description of societies . |
| 10 | ‘ These payments are not an end in their own right . |
| 11 | It must however , be emphasised that these matters are not an end in themselves , but a means of enabling voluntary organisations to achieve their aims and objectives effectively , and I understand that that working party report will be published in February , and we all await it very much . |
| 12 | Awards , though , are not an end in themselves and are only of value if they stimulate the improvement process . |
| 13 | The high pass rates achieved by those taking PE1 early , after full-time courses , are not an argument for early entry in all cases , since such candidates are not a representative sample . |
| 14 | Well , I think that I bore people endlessly by saying that erm , the first half results are not an indication of the year as a whole because we make the bulk of our pro profits in the second half and you know , that remains , that remains true . |
| 15 | You are not an entertainer at a children 's party . |
| 16 | When Catherine died , she was all I had left , but you ca n't hang on to young people … they 're not an insurance against loneliness in old age . |
| 17 | erm so species are , in a sense , real things out there , they 're not an artefact of taxonomists who 've tried to force some classification onto organisms which do n't really have that nature . |
| 18 | ‘ I just hope that they 're not an indication of Irish troubles finding their way into Wales in the way they have in parts of England over recent days and weeks , ’ said Mr Wigley . |
| 19 | I 'm not an American on a brief overseas assignment . |
| 20 | I , I do n't , I 'm not an expert for poet , I , I , I feel about it , perhaps did n't |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not an expert in that field . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm not an expert in that area myself . ’ |
| 23 | Now , I 'm not an expert in |
| 24 | ROBBIE I 'm not an adolescent for God 's sake . |
| 25 | I 'm not an employee of the County certainly . |
| 26 | It was seen to be not an excrescence on the body politic , having no bearing upon its general health , but an organic disease … a running sore that affected the entire fabric of society , a morass exhaling a miasma that poisoned the healthy elements of industry . |
| 27 | Will he further confirm that they were not an issue in the recent by-election in Scotland ? |
| 28 | The Revenue has subsequently responded that these costs did not fulfil the requirements of s 84(1) of ICTA 1988 , arguing that these fees were not an expense of the trade but ones which put the client in a position to carry out his trade , being akin in their opinion to home to business mileage . |
| 29 | In the past , presidential wives have made an impression but usually in a way that has drawn fierce criticism , mainly because they pretended they were n't an influence on their husbands . |
| 30 | Here we use results from the Rosat all-sky survey , which increases by an order of magnitude the number of X-ray stars , to show that the dividing line is not an artefact of poor sampling . |