Example sentences of "not [art] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not the thought of a fall that worried her . |
| 2 | " Conversations with a Gorilla " is not the title of a children 's fairy-tale but of a supposedly scientific contribution to the National Geographic Magazine . |
| 3 | Such matters were not the concern of a Khan . |
| 4 | Yes , he was a professor — an associate , not the holder of a chair , and did teach , but preferred to be referred to as Dr. Briant rather than professor . |
| 5 | That definition makes it clear that a statutory tenant is not the holder of a statutorily protected tenancy . |
| 6 | But this is not the imposition of a direct legal sanction . |
| 7 | But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it . |
| 8 | Thus H-YRDN ( which is translated throughout the Bible as Jordan ) is not the name of a river but means the ‘ Ridge ’ and refers to a huge escarpment which dominates Asir and explains , says Salibi , why the Old Testament nowhere makes reference to the Jordan as a river . |
| 9 | ( The subsidiary element is the idea that since ‘ pain' is evidently not the name of a material object it must be the name of an aethereal one , a personal experience . ) |
| 10 | At your age I already had five children living and not the hope of a decent wage coming . |
| 11 | In an article published the same year , Kevin Sharpe questioned whether it was entirely accurate to label Laud as an Arminian , stressing that the archbishop saw as his main task not the propagation of a new theology but the prevention of divisive doctrinal debate . |
| 12 | Sure , the DNA was perhaps a little preoccupied with carrying the genetic memory , but could not the memories of a lifetime be readily encoded in the myriad of potential unique protein sequences ? |
| 13 | These were not the sounds of a new enemy vessel , but the calls of fishes . |
| 14 | This was not the concept of a cautious or beaten man . |
| 15 | Does not the concept of a citizen imply the existence of a society ? |
| 16 | Since petrochemicals are , by definition , derived from crude oil or gas , must not the concept of a secure supply base also embrace these ? |
| 17 | It was not the construction of a statutory term , but a judicially imposed limit on discretion . |
| 18 | In the event , the more fateful decision was not the proposal of a route within the walled city but making the starting point for the march the railway station on the Protestant Waterside . |
| 19 | But why not the hall for a change ? |
| 20 | In Nakkuda Ali one of the reasons why the Privy Council denied the application of natural justice was because the cancellation of a licence was characterised as the withdrawal of a privilege and not the determination of a right , and in ex p . |
| 21 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 22 | But the counter-argument still held good : that it was the operational control and not the manufacture of a weapon system that made it independent . |
| 23 | Might not the mastery of a skill quickly mean that an approach to learning through discovery could be more effectively undertaken ? |
| 24 | Strictly speaking ( for them ) , the domain of information structure is not the clause as a grammatical unit but the tone group as a phonological unit . |
| 25 | Erm , er he might be doing a very good job of explaining some other notion , not the notion of a self or an individual , but er something else . |
| 26 | When Philip in 346 settled the Third Sacred War , he was ( personally ; not the Macedonians as a race ) admitted to the Delphic Amphictyony , the body which managed the prestige sanctuary at Delphi ; and so he gained admission to the Greek fraternity . |
| 27 | yeah , it 's not the wording of a company cos companies ca n't write , it 's only human beings that can write , which human being is responsible for this wording ? |
| 28 | The goal of the smoothing recipes to be explained in this chapter , however , is not the extrapolation of a given series into the future . |
| 29 | Perhaps even that future may be judged providential , but in such a story Vatican II will appear as the final occasion when Christianity was at the centre of significance for human and religious history , and John Paul II will be judged not the healer of a divided Church , but the gravedigger of Pope John 's aggiornamento . |
| 30 | This is the music of anticipation , not resignation ; the morning of new love , not the mourning for a lost one . |