Example sentences of "[prep] not be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yet at a time when the rest of the industrialized world is moving towards a forty hour week , women , many of whom may work at least eighty hours per week , are encouraged to regard this as not being work .
2 For not being Márquez .
3 I could almost bemoan the fact that the two greatest Bach obligato violin parts ( those contained in the St. Matthew Passion ) , are not included ; but then I can hardly blame Miss Battle for not being contralto or bass ( shame though ) !
4 These are not small yards , but they are small companies in the sense of not being part of large conglomerates with access to substantial investment .
5 But on the other hand private care suffers from not being part of the mainstream thinking that has gone in to helping to move away from those bad practices and towards better practices in the statutory services and I think that these are the things that we really have to try and address .
6 Work with individuals can capitalize on not being part of ‘ the system ’ , however , and from their offices on the wing the Probation Officers have easy and direct access both to prisoners and to other staff with whom they work .
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