Example sentences of "not a [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a is not a member of A we write unc and say " a does not belong to A " . |
| 2 | Each member country agrees that any tariff concession or trade advantage granted to one country , whether or not a member of GATT , shall be granted to all member countries . |
| 3 | Britain , along with Denmark and Norway , as well as Ireland ( which was not a member of EFTA ) , had lodged applications to join the EEC , and their initial negotiations with the Six seemed to be progressing satisfactorily . |
| 4 | But before she could finish , he retorted : ‘ He 's not a member of Equity . ’ |
| 5 | David Howell was not a member of Mr Heath 's Cabinet but he was close to him . |
| 6 | While in the library , the young user is an individual — not a member of Miss Jones 's class , or one of the Polish community , or ‘ a typical teenager ’ , or so-and-so 's daughter or son . |
| 7 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 8 | Although we 're working er all the time to keep security as tight as we can at the John Radcliffe , er the scheme is going to give us the ability to challenge members of staff , legitimate members of staff , as we currently do , er and they will then have to provide , produce the card , er so we can then assess whether they are or are not a member of staff . |
| 9 | On May 30 President Mitterrand of France said in Lille at the conclusion of a Franco-German summit [ see p. 38198 ] that France , which was not a member of NATO 's integrated military command , had " reservations " about the political strategy which lay behind the creation of the multinational corps . |
| 10 | The contract was eventually granted to a company from Australia , which , although a member of COCOM , was not a member of NATO . |
| 11 | Oman is not a member of OPEC but is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council ( GCC ) and is thus sensitive to the interests of other Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia . |
| 12 | I do n't know whether I 've spoken out of place because I 'm not a member of Salisbury park but on the assumption that erm that we would have to share in the |
| 13 | She made him up a bed on the high white divan in her living-room — not a heap of sleeping-bags and blankets but a real bed , with laundered sheets and pillows in emerald green cotton cases . |
| 14 | The interior of the country is an inhospitable desert of mountains and moors and innumerable lochs : not a desert of desolation but of beautiful and dramatic landscapes . |
| 15 | Not a night of vintage claret . |
| 16 | His report offered not a vestige of comfort . |
| 17 | Does not a Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food report show that production of early potatoes fell considerably , and that meant an increase in price ? |
| 18 | But the sale was not a precondition of clearance . |
| 19 | For those who wish to weaken the hold that transmission teaching has within the educational system , this more sociological approach to understanding the conditions of teaching quality suggests not a tightening-up of selection procedures , an improvement of training , and an emphasis in training and staff deployment on the strengthening of subject expertise , but policies such as the following : |
| 20 | You are not a child of Star Zoo . |
| 21 | This would suggest that curiosity is not a by-product of intelligence , as we might expect , but rather an essential property of life . |
| 22 | Such irony is not a by-product of war . |
| 23 | Despite the scattered details , this was not a description of topography or social structure , but a collection of legal and fiscal rights . |
| 24 | Contrary to what our readers may believe the above is not a description of Europe after the arrival of solicitors ' rights of audience . |
| 25 | A strong association , however , is not a proof of causation . |
| 26 | It 's not a base of knowledge but a subset that can be easily manipulated . |
| 27 | Examples of this category are black — in blackbird , blue in blue-tit , and red in red wine ( it must not be thought that red here is merely a colour term : a red wine is a type of wine , whereas a red dress is not a type of dress ) . |
| 28 | Whole group drama , however , is not a type of drama , but an organisational strategy ; as with any strategy it can be well used or misused . |
| 29 | It had been a cold evening , heavily overcast , not a splink of moonlight to pierce the darkness of his last few miles . |
| 30 | She had expected to get good advice from Lovat , not a proposal of marriage . |