Example sentences of "it is not [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is not sport for sport 's sake , ’ says Mr Hawkins , who is an ex-Harlem-Globetrotter , ‘ but a way of imposing a structure on undisciplined lives : in a sports team they turn up regularly , on time , in uniform , and train hard . |
| 2 | It is not management by consensus by any means , ’ says one former colleague . |
| 3 | It is not kind of you . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not disturbance as such but uncontrollable disturbance which leads to uncertainty . |
| 7 | But it is not policies on Europe which will decide Jim 's vote but the ability of party leaders to get the best deal for Britain from the Continent . |
| 8 | Detail like this provides retrospective labelling , but it is not evidence about a historical period . |
| 9 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 10 | They use a business language that is so predictable and going out and doing it is not part of the course . |
| 11 | It is not part of Locke 's empiricism that we know these things by observation and experience . |
| 12 | These restrictions show that the subjective element is merely preparing the ground for the objective element ; it is not part of a broader defence of emotional pressure of the kind discussed in Chapter 6.5(c) above . |
| 13 | Although intelligence in a horse , or lack of it , is also an inherited characteristic , it is not part of a horse 's temperament . |
| 14 | Unlike John Major and his soapbox , it is not part of the image . |
| 15 | It is not part of the National Curriculum , for which , as we have seen , there are prescribed attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 16 | Clearly it is not part of the reason for any government 's authority that it should pass unjust or immoral laws . |
| 17 | This is , of course , an issue of much wider social and political significance which it is not part of my brief to explore . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not part of a doctor 's work to become involved in brawls , ’ he said firmly . |
| 19 | It is not part of the port but , although the sea laps against an area of sand , it is not a beach . |
| 20 | I am not sure how it achieves this as all CDs start from the inside and it is not part of the table of contents ; in any case it one puts a small size CD in an adaptor ring the machine still knows you have done it — something I must look into . |
| 21 | That there was no canopy may be part of why I say that if it 's raining the balcony is wet , but it is not part of what I say . |
| 22 | It is over , it can not touch my life , it is not part of my story . |
| 23 | It is not part of the cause of action . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) It is not part of the bankruptcy process , nor should it be a part of the bankruptcy scheme , to ensure that bankrupts are prosecuted and the court should shrink from a construction of the statute that lends support to any such result . |
| 25 | But I would say that the way to look at this site is to ask whether it is part of the built area , in other words whether it is built on , or whether it is not part of the built area , in other words it is not built on . |
| 26 | It is not part of our code to stand helpless and alone and wait for death . |
| 27 | Learning is necessary ; but it is not part of what is meant by higher education . |
| 28 | Whereas in a Chinese context the meaning of the gesture would seem perfectly transparent , in an English context this behaviour would be totally bewildering because it is not part of the English conventions of politesse . |
| 29 | This conception of the signifier bears only a vestige of its Saussurean ancestry , for there is nothing formalist about it and it is not part of a structural attempt to outline the basic grammar of any system . |
| 30 | It has not been released for independent investigation or for investigation by BR experts , so it is not part of the evidence that is being considered at the BR internal inquiry now under way . |