Example sentences of "is not [art] " in BNC.

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1 Uncle Sam is not de man yu tink dem fighting fe McDonalds
2 Such a frank exclusion from the domain of art is not a solitary instance .
3 Of course , a theorist may damage an argument through bias , perhaps excluding relevant evidence inconvenient to the case being made ; but this is not a danger exclusive to theorists .
4 A biography is not a monograph , and , indeed , there are biographies of painters which do little justice to art .
5 The description of an object is not a simple task .
6 It is not a revolution .
7 And in so doing it can often convey that a past is not a thing to be discovered .
8 It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game .
9 She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art .
10 Singer is a writer of standing in the matter of when , in what he sees as the ‘ disappointing ’ modern world , a Jew is not a Jew .
11 The speech is not a lamenting ‘ downer ’ , it 's full of irony , humour and compassion and honest indignation .
12 I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art .
13 Acting is not a profession where you can simply stroll on — although I know a lot of fine actors have done that .
14 The South is not a classless society , but its class nature has been well hidden in consciousness and dominated by the procedures of the capitalist-democratic process .
15 But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge .
16 It is not a question , he wrote , of drawing up an inventory of all that is required , because that suggests that one can know exactly what will be required .
17 We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion .
18 We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion .
19 But a work of art , so-called , is not a machine , he wrote .
20 Art is not a machine , he wrote , and it is not an organism .
21 Find a way of allowing each viewer to make his own impact on the glass , he wrote , to indicate that viewing is not a neutral activity .
22 It is not a question of whether it is better or worse to remain a virgin or a bachelor , he wrote , but rather of bringing the terror to the surface .
23 He added : ‘ You only have to look at the figures for fire deaths in hotels to see this is not a problem .
24 Despite the ultimate in Michelin -starred success , Bernard Loiseau is not a chef who takes himself too seriously , discovers Roy Hayter
25 ‘ The cinema is not a place I am very much attending . ’
26 And while it may be that the tragic case of the disappearing baronet is one that appears to defy all logic , it is not a case that defies the world 's greatest detective .
27 His Tagore is not a mystic or a Romantic , but a rogue , performing monkey , a user of four-letter words .
28 Who is not a refugee ’ ?
29 Given its spreading tendencies , telekia is not a plant for small gardens unless steps can be taken to contain its roots .
30 If the glider is very low and there is not a clear area immediately ahead and below , a stalling type of crash will be inevitable .
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