Example sentences of "is not [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Berlin Wall came down the year before , but John Major is not Prime Minister yet and EuroDisney is still a building site . |
| 2 | This is not prime SAW , but at least it 's good pop music . |
| 3 | Note that there is not total standardisation between manufacturers and not all pipes and fittings are compatible . |
| 4 | Yet there is not total rejection ; the young person feels shame , guilt and bewilderment . |
| 5 | To avenge the death of a son is not hasty work , if he is to be honoured . |
| 6 | Thus ‘ what we have … is not expanded reproduction , but an Ever-increasing under-production . |
| 7 | And this is the case when ‘ What we have … is not expanded reproduction , but an ever-increasing under-production . |
| 8 | But 55 or 56 MPs instead of 76 or 77 is not proportional representation . |
| 9 | It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next . |
| 10 | Metaphor is not mere ornament , but an indispensible means of articulating the shape of reality … |
| 11 | This is not mere courtesy , what the interviewee regards as important can be very revealing . |
| 12 | The repetition in " wit … wrath wisdom " is not mere repetition , but a progression implying an increasing weightiness of the qualities listed . |
| 13 | It is not mere chance that admitting children into residential care is seen as a last resort by field and residential social workers , but it is , I wish to argue , the logical outcome of what has gone before . |
| 14 | In Sweeney Agonistes it is not mere action which matters . |
| 15 | A further example of abstract form which is not mere pattern is Tantric art . |
| 16 | I do n't mean learning facts like ‘ Lemur is the capital of Peru ’ or that ‘ St Tracy is the patron saint of the dormer window ’ ( we can learn things that are false : learning is not mere information pick-up ) , but acquiring concepts such as what is to count as a ‘ chair ’ , that weight is conserved through transformations of shape , that the earth is a heavenly body circling a larger heavenly body . |
| 17 | This is not mere deification of success ; many of the most important facts of European history have been its great failures . |
| 18 | This is not mere semantics . |
| 19 | This is not general immunity against prosecution for child abusers . |
| 20 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , it is not general practice to confirm or deny that nuclear tests are about to take place . |
| 21 | If a new tenancy is not possible compensation will be available . |
| 22 | If the ideal course of action is not possible doctors must use their ingenuity to find another . |
| 23 | Where this is not possible rift development is halted , rifts become filled with sediment and any associated uplift subsides . |
| 24 | If this is not possible batteries should not be pulled out as hooked terminal segments may catch the springs and pull them out ( ruining the contact and rendering a none-too-cheap dealer repair necessary ) . |
| 25 | A democratic constitution , not supported by democratic institutions in detail , but confined to the central government , not only is not political freedom , but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse , carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination . |
| 26 | But the power to assassinate is not political power . |
| 27 | But it is not industrialised countries such as Sweden that matter most . |
| 28 | I think it is sophisticated , inspirational — but it is not archaeological research , ’ comments the Peruvian expert , Dr Ramiro Matos , of Dumbaton Oaks . |
| 29 | Millett J commented : ‘ It would not , I think , be unfair to say that the defendants wish to embark on a fishing expedition , and that what they hope to catch is not primary evidence , but material for cross-examination ’ . |
| 30 | This is not civil liberty but plain silliness . |