Example sentences of "[be] not a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pack have also developed their loose play a long way and although I am not a great fan of the ‘ hand ruck ’ , in the games so far the pack has mixed its rucking and mauling well . |
| 2 | It is just as well that I am not a serious researcher of times past . |
| 3 | I am not a breezy sort of person , and I never say Hi . |
| 4 | If you are not a regular eater of such food , insist firmly that the chilli content is severely reduced . |
| 5 | Stylistic categories are more complex phenomena which are often difficult to define , but which are assumed to be describable in terms of linguistic categories , although they are not a necessary part of the description of a language . |
| 6 | They are not a specific kind of tree , but a way of being a tree ; several unrelated species ( black mangroves , white mangroves , etc ) are involved . |
| 7 | ‘ They are not a total reflection of how a school is providing education for pupils . |
| 8 | If they are not a substantial part of a weekend and a reason for travel , what is ? |
| 9 | Such differences are not a distinguishing truth of British life , merely a truth . |
| 10 | ‘ But these contracts are not a firm indication of who is going to India this winter and who is not . ’ |
| 11 | The faecal pellets are very small , 200 x 100 Um ( Fretter & Graham , 1985 ) , and are not a useful indication of the food ingested . |
| 12 | As with the British economy , there are not a great number of options and no amount of breast-beating or hair shirts will alter that fact . |
| 13 | Even if you are not a great fan of exercise-to-music and think stepping up and down on a bench is n't exactly going to be a barrel laughs , you may still find this fun . |
| 14 | The results are not a random sample of the vehicles on the road at all . |
| 15 | ( Remember , interviewers are not a random sample of the general population . ) |
| 16 | Because these comparisons were only among patients , the external validity was poor since patients are not a random sample of the general population . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , despite my advice to the Museum , the teeth are not a true representation of the teeth on the original FX760 ‘ GA- ? ’ . |
| 18 | But the dividend income is relatively modest , and coming from abroad they are not a tax-efficient source of income . |
| 19 | * If you are not a native speaker of English , learn where your weak spots are and check them ; you may well have problems with choosing the right preposition , inserting " the " correctly , or using " have " with the correct meaning ( see pp. 119 – 21 ) . |
| 20 | Welcome though North sea oil taxation revenues are , does my hon. Friend agree that they are not a large proportion of the taxes paid in the United Kingdom ? |
| 21 | Even is these ‘ broadening ’ elements are not a formal part of an SVQ programme , candidates taking these modules will have them credited alongside the occupational SVQ units and modules on their Records of Education and Training . |
| 22 | These are not a direct source of constitutional law in the sense that they do not normally involve any change in domestic law ( see , however The Parlement Belge ( H.C. , 1879 ) ) . |
| 23 | The boundaries are woven into social life in uneven texture ; they are not a seamless web of uniform warp and weft . |
| 24 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |
| 25 | I 'm not a great eater of |
| 26 | And I 'm not a great lover of weeding , cos |
| 27 | ‘ And while I like using acoustic guitars , I 'm not a great fan of clean electric guitars , and most of the sounds on the new LP are really dirty . |
| 28 | I must admit , I 'm not a great fan of noise gates in general , but Carvin 's system seems to work better than most . |
| 29 | Well I 'm not a big fan of Apache Indian . |
| 30 | I 'm not a jealous kind of person , and my own parents were divorced five into my marriage with Bailey . |