Example sentences of "is not [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not generally a problem but , as with all uncertainties , hits home on the occasions that you forget to check ! |
| 2 | Diarrhoea is not generally a feature . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union is not normally a country to which most people would look to learn lessons about democracy — except negative ones . |
| 4 | Timeshare is not normally a solution SAVE would recommend for a historic house because so much of the expenditure goes on pure marketing , leaving too little for the building , but where it is well organized the outcome may be satisfactory . |
| 5 | Unlike the articles of association , the shareholders ' agreement is not normally a matter of public record . |
| 6 | For example , speculative development of unit factories , offices and other premises suitable for small firms is not normally a planning matter : ‘ it is for market forces to determine whether there is a demand for such premises ’ . |
| 7 | Harmonia Mundi is not normally a label one associates with exploration of the by-ways of the repertoire . |
| 8 | John Patten , counting his blessings that he is not yet a Treasury Minister , opted to avoid the economy altogether and put his faith in education , as befits an Oxford fellow . |
| 9 | The utilitarian theorists — such as L W Sumner and Joseph Fletcher — reject moral absolutes , but still rely on deductive reasoning to arrive at moral principles and are much given to abstract statements like ‘ a fetus is a human being which is not yet a person ’ . |
| 10 | It is usual for governments to engage in such consultation , but it is not yet a convention of the Constitution that they do so . |
| 11 | How would it be possible to take the two applications together when , thanks to the Government 's incompetence , there is not yet a scheme to run trains to King 's Cross ? |
| 12 | Malcolm , out to prove that he is not yet a Test has-been , quickly worked up a rare pace and was quite a handful , coming in with the pavilion behind him . |
| 13 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 14 | Pop culture acknowledges the sign of ‘ gayness ’ , but there is not yet a whisper of female sexual autonomy , of lesbianism . ’ |
| 15 | Unlike English , which is an established discipline , communications is still in the process of finding a language and an identity ; it is not yet a discipline in itself . |
| 16 | The spot is not already a sanctuary . |
| 17 | When a tenant who is not already a council tenant applies for a council house , the local authority , before granting a secure tenancy finds out whether the council house will be occupied by the tenant alone or whether the council house will become the joint home of the tenant and a member of the tenant 's family who has been residing with the tenant . |
| 18 | One of the nightmares of personal injury litigation is a defence blaming someone else who is not already a party , served after primary limitation has expired . |
| 19 | The response at such times of frustration is not infrequently a response governed by emotion alone . |
| 20 | For young Kampucheans he is not even a memory . |
| 21 | They have been most recently espoused by the hon. Member for Clackmannan , who is not even a member of the shadow Cabinet . |
| 22 | It is not even a hair cut . |
| 23 | From its easily-reached little summit not much of a view — therefore , it can not have been a hill-fort : in the tradition of Maiden Castle , or the great Heuneberg in Danubian Germany , this is not even a bungalow . |
| 24 | It is not even a question of God inspiring people to exploit these opportunities when they arise . |
| 25 | It is not even a question of reducing the time spent on formal aspects of the language system and squeezing them up to make room for a newcomer . |
| 26 | This poem is not even a palinode to love . |
| 27 | There is not even a postcard to buy , let alone a stamp . |
| 28 | When roads , buildings , telegraph-poles and trees are in view , it is easy to judge distances , but in the desert , where in the morning and evening there is not even a haze to blur distant outlines , it is nearly impossible . |
| 29 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 30 | There is not even a staffroom . |