Example sentences of "not a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCO has argued that adoption of SVR4 is not a price issue for it , but is dependent on USL meeting certain technology requirements , in multiprocessing for example , where SCO already has its successful MPX Unix-add on . |
| 2 | I think it 's a reflection of their motivation , because I 'm not a subject specialist . |
| 3 | The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom , and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen 's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef … |
| 4 | However his second Service is marked by a peculiarly English innovation : the introduction of passages for solo voice and organ , which plays not a continuo role but polyphony to which the voice doubles a part or supplies an otherwise missing one : |
| 5 | What they did n't realise was that the places being offered were in the reception class — designed for children of five and over — not a nursery class . |
| 6 | It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish . |
| 7 | We know that the picture by Rembrandt known as ‘ The Night Watch ’ is not a night watch , but a scene taking place in full daylight . |
| 8 | The fact that Redcar is not a yuppie haven nor affects green welly pretension like certain places nearer Darlington make it an obvious target for sarcastic wit . |
| 9 | Mathematics is not a spectator sport . |
| 10 | If not a Carley float , then certainly an inflatable rubber dinghy . |
| 11 | However , this was a television programme , not a newspaper article . |
| 12 | If that happens , if animals are shot and die instantaneously , there is not a welfare problem ; there is no interval when the -animal is suffering . |
| 13 | The RSPB is not a welfare society for sick , injured or captive birds and you will not find caged birds on public display at our reserves . |
| 14 | I do not envy those who only see in them the messengers of evil tidings , forebodings of rain , and who think the landscape is devoid of loveliness because the sun does not shine — because there is not an Italian sky overhead , and that the open car or gig he travels in is not a Pullman car . |
| 15 | It is not a description Docherty takes lying down . |
| 16 | The package index is not a precision tool but in practice variations between packages can be in the order of 2–300 per cent so the differences are likely to exceed percentage error . |
| 17 | To change the picture ; presuppositions are not a booster rocket to get faith off the ground — to be jettisoned as soon as faith is in orbit — but are as vital to faith as an engine to an aeroplane . |
| 18 | This is the Government service , not a holiday camp ! |
| 19 | It 's not a holiday camp . |
| 20 | The most dramatic new facility is the blend tool which is not a kitchen utensil but rather a means of modifying one form or colour into another . |
| 21 | The girl blushed slightly and then laughed , well we 're a public library , not a marriage bureau . |
| 22 | Not a marriage broker . |
| 23 | Aah , that 's why she 's not a window cleaner . |
| 24 | It is not a tuck stitch at all , but the name comes from the same term used in dressmaking , where woven fabric is stitched , or tucked , into ridges that look much like this fabric . |
| 25 | He says music was not a performing art : it was connected to everyday events , to births and deaths , a new house , or a departure . |
| 26 | The throat is not a scoring area , though the neck is |
| 27 | ‘ Now ’ is not a panic word , but one which conveys the idea of both opportunity and urgency . |
| 28 | ‘ This is not a panic process , it is a systematically controlled , pro-active programme , which is a continuation of the company 's evolution . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not a cricket buff , ’ said the museum curator Dr Patricia Andrew , ‘ or at least I was n't . |
| 30 | Three of de Forbin 's remaining ships made a brief appearance in the Moray Firth , about 45 miles [ 72 km ] east of Inverness , where they landed a foraging party , but with these exceptions not a Frenchman set foot on what , since 1707 , could properly be called British soil . |