Example sentences of "be [noun sg] not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll be all right in a couple of days , they said , and in her disorientation Chesarynth thought , Days are geography not time . |
| 2 | She was bent down now , unbuttoning the lower half of her one-piece , her fingers moving gingerly , as if what she touched were flesh not cloth . |
| 3 | It 's fiction not fact |
| 4 | How do you know it 's murder not suicide , Naseby ? ’ |
| 5 | and it 's aitch not haitch |
| 6 | But that is tourism not travel , and the fares are about to double . |
| 7 | ‘ So , it 's liquidation not incarceration that 's your bag . |
| 8 | When is deception not deception ? |
| 9 | it 's beer not champagne because she says , this is a victory for the ordinary person . |
| 10 | But this study , from psychologists in Durham , is demography not anecdote . |
| 11 | The whole idea is awareness not punishment . |
| 12 | Only for such beings is ignorance not bliss . |
| 13 | It is survival not exploitation that worries her . |
| 14 | Potter 's strength is creation not adaptation . |
| 15 | We want the Minister to say that sales will not proceed until there is agreement not consultation — among the parties concerned to ensure the success of buy-outs . |
| 16 | Essentially this was administration not management , concerned with maintaining stability and the status quo rather than achieving change , with process rather than action and results . |
| 17 | ‘ We know it was murder not suicide , but how and by whom ? ’ |
| 18 | He stated a little later , ‘ At the start it was patriotism not communism which moved me to believe in Lenin and in the Third International . ’ |
| 19 | Now wide awake , and breathing as if she had been running , she put her hand up to her brow and knew that the cold wetness she felt was sweat not blood . |