Example sentences of "[be] not a " in BNC.
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| 1 | el-Kefevi of the early sources even places him in Edirne , writing that he was appointed by Murad II to one of the Uc Serefeli medreses there in 855/1451 It is only right to emphasize , however , that negative evidence of this sort the fact that an appointment is not mentioned-is not a wholly dependable guide when dealing with the since it can by no means be relied upon to provide a complete account of a scholar 's career . |
| 2 | The trouble is that I am not a tea-drinker , and so my plants get only the occasional treat when guests visit . |
| 3 | I am not a modernist , though I presided at the Arts Council with liberal equanimity over the public funding of much modernist art which I did not understand . |
| 4 | Yet the effect of the proposal would be to ban , for example , Voltaire 's Candide , Tom Paine 's Age of Reason , Bertrand Russell 's Why I Am Not a Christian , Scorsese 's The Last Temptation of Christ , as well as Monty Python 's The Life of Brian . |
| 5 | We should not ban Voltaire 's Candide , Tom Paine 's Age of Reason , Bertrand Russell 's Why I am not a Christian , Scorsese 's The Last Temptation of Christ , or Monty Python 's The Life of Brian . |
| 6 | Later , in The Use of Poetry , he links in one sentence Fitzgerald and Buddhism : ‘ I am not a Buddhist , but some of the early Buddhist scriptures affect me as parts of the Old Testament do ; I can still enjoy Fitzgerald 's Omar , though I do not hold that rather smart and shallow view of life . ’ |
| 7 | Yet it is worth noting that one of the most influential works in the canon of the new right , Friedrich Hayek 's The Constitution of Liberty , ends with a chapter entitled ‘ Why I am not a Conservative ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not a royalist , ’ he said , ‘ I am a socialist and I would n't cross the street for the Prince myself . |
| 9 | When you put it to Sole that his approach to captaincy is more intellectual than gung-ho he laughs : ‘ Well , I am not a Finlay Calder by any means . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not a gambler , ’ the president told a television interviewer , ‘ I am an engineer . ’ |
| 11 | Paint it I can not because I am not a painter . |
| 12 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 13 | I am not a street fighter , I do n't need to hate him to beat him . |
| 14 | I am not a mouse , she thought , and I will not stand by and watch this idiocy . |
| 15 | I am not a child , Isabel . ’ |
| 16 | I am not a prying woman , I have never really been interested in the affairs of others , I would never examine the contents of their drawers and cupboards and bathroom cabinets , as Isabel did , wherever we went to stay . |
| 17 | I am not a wealthy woman , Isabel , and my own mother 's hospital bills are draining my income . |
| 18 | I am not a virgin , but I try to keep myself pure and I always keep my body clean . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not a gambler , I look at ten year careers not ten minute careers and I believe Kylie has all the potential necessary to have a very long life span in this business , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ I am not a radical film-maker , ’ says Puttnam . |
| 21 | During frantic negotiations broadcast on Sarajevo Radio , Mr Murat Sabanovic , the former Civil Defence chief of Visegrad , said : ‘ I am not a terrorist . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not a good watcher . |
| 23 | For my own standpoint : I am not a historian . |
| 24 | I am not a sociologist . |
| 25 | I am not a statistician . |
| 26 | I am not a magician ! |
| 27 | An emotive example , to be sure , but sexuality is not a topic from which emotion can be expelled , because the categories of sexuality are experiential : I can not be purely theoretical about homosexuality , because I am not a purely theoretical homosexual . |
| 28 | ‘ I am not a wart-hog from hell , ’ she moans . |
| 29 | Ordinarily I am not a quick thinker but this situation was very clear ; it took me only seconds to realize that Matt , with his family , needed the job more than I did , so I said to Fred , ‘ In that case , I would like to resign ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I am not a football fan , ’ said Ms Simonsen , shaken but not stirred . |