Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [art] [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted you to know , ’ he said , ‘ because whatever it is , I am not a part of it . ’ |
| 2 | As I am not a member of his Church , it would be improper of me to make any theological observations . |
| 3 | The difficulty is I am not an employee of yours , so I hope they accept it . |
| 4 | As such it means that vigilante heroes , no matter how good , are not the stuff of which Christians are made . |
| 5 | I include them for their interest as sidelights on history , because a number , for the benefit of the collector , have been faithfully printed in facsimile , and as a reminder that , despite the plethora of them in our daily newspapers , printer 's blunders are not the prerogative of our own day . |
| 6 | In fact , it is only a slight exaggeration to say that the main deterrent effect of monopoly policy has been not the threat of what changes might be required as a result of the MMC investigation , but the threat of having to tie up a large quantity of senior executives ' time to argue the firm 's case in the event that its activities attract a reference to the MMC . |
| 7 | You 're not a part of my life any more . ’ |
| 8 | But you 're not the love of my life — and I 'm not the love of yours . |
| 9 | I think I am the last British poop artist because the total effort of all groups now in 1990 is to be as international as possible … but I 'm not a part of it . |
| 10 | But you 're not the love of my life — and I 'm not the love of yours . |
| 11 | I love you , and I ca n't imagine a life where you are n't the centre of it . ’ |
| 12 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |
| 13 | I 'm glad to say that in the Navy such luxuries were not a part of our conditions of service , and when I was ordered back to Germany in 1949 I had no option but to return . |
| 14 | These two tendencies may have been exacerbated by the rise in public expenditure in the 1960s , as Bacon and Eltis suggest , but they were not the cause of it , since they preceded it . |
| 15 | but that were n't no fault of your own |
| 16 | We were n't a part of it and the whole affair disgusted me . |
| 17 | They will probably be fairly reluctant to assist , given that your client is not a member of their union , but they might be persuaded to part with the safety minutes which contain relevant complaints that predate the accident . |
| 18 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 19 | ‘ It is not a question of what I can bear , but of what I have to put up with . ’ |
| 20 | It is not a question of you and I. Others are involved . |
| 21 | The LIFT-RIGHT-LEG sub-function of the WALK function is not a part of it and in no way a module of it . |
| 22 | They regard the fusion as a sound investment and , although Unionist stock has appreciated greatly since the new issue , there is not a man of us who has the slightest intention of selling out . |
| 23 | The fallibility of all knowledge is not a sign of its deficiency but rather an essential characteristic of knowledge , for every knowledge claim is part of a system of signs that is open to further interpretation and has consequences that are to be publicly tested and confirmed . |
| 24 | But that , the report emphasizes , is not a forecast of what will happen . |
| 25 | Therefore I know that it is not a matter of you using good sense in rejecting advances from young men because you would soon be parted from them . |
| 26 | Your conception of pains which are not yours is not a conception of something which is like your pain , since it hurts , but which is not one of yours . |
| 27 | Yet it is not a picture of someone taking things easy : rather of continual , if misdirected , intellectual effort . |
| 28 | Likewise , Charlie 's old school is not an entity that has the property of old-school-ness ; this is not a property of which English speakers would make frequent use , but it might be possible employ it in cases where something had the characteristic of " being a school in an old way " — perhaps with extensive use of wax tablet and stylus , and possibly a slave or two for the menial work . |
| 29 | The ‘ falseness ’ of the consciousness that produces ideology is not a quality of its location in the mode of production but a quality of the individual 's failure to understand the ‘ real motive forces impelling him ’ . |
| 30 | They conclude : They also suggest , following Gelles and Cornell ( 1985 ) , that child abuse is not a manifestation of something qualitatively different , or resulting from the fundamentally abnormal , but that parents and families are simply experiencing the same problems as others but to a greater degree . |