Example sentences of "are not a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Blackburn said : ‘ The only thing we can do is educate people so they realise HIV and Aids are not a scourge from God but an illness . ’ |
2 | Quickie learning sessions before Mass are not a success for most people since we have all developed a very skilful last minute arrival ! |
3 | You are not a child of Star Zoo . |
4 | You can join the library for £75 if you are not a member of the CIB . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | They are not a part of becoming ill , which went on , generally unnoticed , beforehand , but are a part of the healing process . |
7 | The drug pictures ( the totality of the symptoms ) which are so essential for homoeopathic prescribing are not a part of herbal lore . |
8 | If you are not a qualifier for the additional £50,000 do n't worry , this does not affect your eligibility to enter the ‘ Ultimate ’ Prize Draw and win the £50,000 first prize or one of over a thousand other prizes . |
9 | If you are not a qualifier for the additional £50,000 , do n't worry , this does not affect your eligibility to enter the Ultimate Prize Draw and win the £50,000 first prize or one of over a thousand other prizes . |
10 | Then , driven from that , Mr. Daniel said , ‘ Oh ! but it is past services that it means , and past services are not a consideration for anything . ’ |
11 | ‘ But arrears and repossessions are not a problem for us . |
12 | Unequal height terminals are not a problem with this system . |
13 | Instead , doctors must educate the profession and the public that inchoate multiple symptoms of psychological origin are not a sign of weak will or malingering and are curable at little or no expense if doctor and patient collaborate in treatment . |
14 | Lower sales are not a sign of weakness of industry and commerce — just weakness of demand . |
15 | Abrashes are usually found in monadic and village items , where only small amounts of yarn can be dyed at any one time , and are not a sign of inadequate craftsmanship . |
16 | They represent the oesophageal body component of phase 3 of the migrating motor complex and are not a sign of oesophageal motor abnormalities . |
17 | High rates of weathering are not a prerequisite for the formation of deep weathering profiles if the rate of removal of weathered material is sufficiently slow . |
18 | Is it possible , however , that though you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat you still know many other things , perhaps more important ? |
19 | You presumably also know that if you are sitting reading , you are not a brain in a vat . |
20 | We can surely conclude that if you know that you are sitting reading , you know that you are not a brain in a vat , and hence ( by simple modus tollens ) that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat ( agreed above ) you do n't know that you are sitting reading . |
21 | We can surely conclude that if you know that you are sitting reading , you know that you are not a brain in a vat , and hence ( by simple modus tollens ) that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat ( agreed above ) you do n't know that you are sitting reading . |
22 | It seems therefore to show , more generally , that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat you can not know any proposition p of which you know that if p were true , you would not be a brain in a vat . |
23 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
24 | Perhaps , however , we can make this claim by appeal to the initial moves of the argument that you are not justified in believing that you are not a brain in a vat . |
25 | There we claimed that if nothing in your experience could count as evidence that you were not a brain in a vat , your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be called justified . |
26 | The belief is unjustified because nothing that you can point to suggests that you are rather than are not a brain in a vat . |
27 | The conditional theory of knowledge can show that you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat . |
28 | For a necessary condition for such knowledge , 3 ( that if it were not true that you are not a brain in a vat , you would not believe that you are not a brain in a vat ) fails . |
29 | For a necessary condition for such knowledge , 3 ( that if it were not true that you are not a brain in a vat , you would not believe that you are not a brain in a vat ) fails . |
30 | We can simplify this conditional as follows : if you were a brain in a vat , you would not believe that you are not a brain in a vat . |