Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took Chris Day ( 1975 ) , writing eight years after Brian Way , boldly to affirm that , ‘ Drama … is not life ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 2 | Except from a brief outburst from Sonny ( when Pat urges him to face reality , he protests , ‘ Reality is not life ! ’ ) , you would never know this play was the work of a poet rather than a TV comedy writer . |
| 3 | Parents needed to be reassured that , although it is a significant chronic problem , it is not life threatening . |
| 4 | I find the Préludes disappointing , too brightly lit and stated rather than suggested : to take examples from Book 1 , the opening of ‘ Le vent dans la plaine ’ is not pp and surely not aussi légèrement que possible for this pianist , while the ‘ sounds and perfumes ’ of the next piece are too solid to float in the evening air . |
| 5 | If the NVOCC is not United States based , it must now designate a resident agent for the service of judicial and administrative process . |
| 6 | What is significant , however , is that it is not Peter , but Jesus 's brother James who presides over the ‘ Church ’ in Jerusalem . |
| 7 | The idea seems strange : is not transgression a liberation from , a moving beyond ; a breaking out , perhaps even a progression ? |
| 8 | Its lifting gas is not hydrogen , which is extremely flammable , but helium , which is inert . |
| 9 | ‘ Is not crack . |
| 10 | He cautioned museums not to embrace wholly mass media which ‘ simplify and cheapen ’ the experience of art , and declared the museum 's main purpose is not preservation , but ‘ cultivation of the human spirit ’ . |
| 11 | Although the legal framework exists , there is not supervision of actual operations , the report says . |
| 12 | Although it was especially developed for babies at risk of allergy , many nutritionists believe that it would benefit all babies to follow a similar , gradual pattern of weaning , If your family is not allergy prone , you can adapt it to suit your needs , circumstances and baby . |
| 13 | Most water in fuel , assuming it is not rainwater getting in , is caused by condensation formed on the inside of the tank . |
| 14 | Is not THORP about to become the principal producer of plutonium for proliferators in the world ? |
| 15 | Is not THORP capable of destroying the world , and should not the Minister show some courage as well as some sense and phase out plutonium production ? |
| 16 | Perhaps the ‘ I ’ of the poem is not William Wordsworth but a rustic narrator — compare the old sea-captain who tells the story of The Thorn . |
| 17 | This is not fantasy , this is a real-life operating called Taos from Tao Systems Ltd , a small company based in North London . |
| 18 | This is not fantasy , this is a real-life operating called Taos from Tao Systems Ltd , a small company based in North London . |
| 19 | This is not fantasy — I am not making it up . |
| 20 | Thus in Chinantec , there are four expressions to choose from if one wants to say " Pedro moved to X " , depending on the following criteria : ( i ) one verb form is used if the speaker 5 is at X at CT , and X is S 's home-base ; ( ii ) another is used if S is at X , but X is not S's home-base ; ( iii ) a third is used if S is not at X , but X is S 's home-base ; ( iv ) a fourth is used if S is not at X , and X is not S's home-base ( Fillmore , 1917b : 16 ) . |
| 21 | Thus in Chinantec , there are four expressions to choose from if one wants to say " Pedro moved to X " , depending on the following criteria : ( i ) one verb form is used if the speaker 5 is at X at CT , and X is S 's home-base ; ( ii ) another is used if S is at X , but X is not S's home-base ; ( iii ) a third is used if S is not at X , but X is S 's home-base ; ( iv ) a fourth is used if S is not at X , and X is not S's home-base ( Fillmore , 1917b : 16 ) . |
| 22 | The result is not choice but the double shift . |
| 23 | The history of that provision and its abolition demonstrates clearly that income arising in an overseas company which is , for instance , owned by an overseas trust , is not income arising under a settlement for the purposes of TA 1988 , Part XV , Chapters III and IV or indeed any of the other provisions of Part XV . |
| 24 | So , for instance , if X and Y are compatibles , then A is f(X) and A is not f(X) are logically independent of A is f(Y) and A is not f(Y) . |
| 25 | When you act in the light of knowledge which is in your own self-interest or in the interests of your group or class , this is not bravery but absolute necessity . ’ |
| 26 | It is not just-children who are learners , it is parents too . |
| 27 | Maybe the reader 's first thought an experiment of my own showed that this is not misinterpretation in any simple sense . |
| 28 | Applicants whose first language is not English should consult the section in this prospectus for overseas students ( see page 55 ) . |
| 29 | Residents in Scotland whose first language is not English may welcome the opportunity to be assessed in their native language as a useful first step prior to undertaking training delivered and assessed in English . |
| 30 | Candidates whose mother tongue is not English will be required to pass an Oral Test before they can be awarded a certificate . |