Example sentences of "not an [noun sg] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not an accountancy measure but a way of enabling us to put a figure on all the opportunities we miss and all the things we foul up . |
| 2 | I 'm not an expert fighter and I did n't know I was going over the top . |
| 3 | There the wee man goes and spoils it all by sayin' he 's not an ice man and if we get ourselves into a really bad pressure ridge he could n't say fur sure what would happen . |
| 4 | It is not an emergency procedure and needs careful consideration . |
| 5 | For one thing it was not an air field but a large old house right in the centre of Huntingdon , a small market town about twenty miles west of Cambridge . |
| 6 | Conversely , it ought also to be recognizably an advertising business — not an insurance office or a bank or the civil service . |
| 7 | It is now believed , however , that χ 1 is not an enthalpy parameter but a free energy parameter and a relation of the form c.f. section 8.8 has improved the correlation . |
| 8 | When she got to her desk she saw that it would not do ; it was not an essay day but at that rate there would be no essay to write ; she had not done her week 's reading . |
| 9 | Within the Rowdies group , there was some confusion as to who was and who was not an aggro leader and also with regard to the characteristic behaviours expected of such a person . |
| 10 | No oh you think well that 's not an executive phone that 's just er a phone with a couple of buttons on it |
| 11 | This could be a valid model of the business but it is not an entity model and can not be used to produce the flexible database for the organisation that we require . |
| 12 | Because there was not an INSET group as such it remained a very individual undertaking throughout . |