Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] [noun] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this account homosexuals are essentially failed men , and the arbiters of what it takes to be a successful male are of course not women but other males . |
| 2 | Both these differences suggest the importance of a distinction which I shall come back to later : attitudes to the role of housewife are in principle not the same thing as feelings about housework . |
| 3 | Major privatization programmes are under way not only in the UK but also in countries as different as France , Japan , Taiwan , Mexico , Poland , and Hungary . |
| 4 | These suggested guidelines are of course not comprehensive . |
| 5 | The idea that arousal , or activation , constitutes a unitary physiological dimension was important to a number of theorists particularly in the late fifties ( e.g. Duffy , 1962 ; Lindsley , 1951 ; Malmo , 1959 ) , however , it has since become clear that the numerous physiological measures which have been taken as different indices of arousal are in fact not highly correlated ( Cattell , 1972 ) . |
| 6 | Lyons would argue that his statements are only about ‘ language-systems ’ ( Lyons , 1977 ) and that the paralinguistic aspects are by definition not included in these and so are irrelevant to the point about ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 7 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |
| 8 | Democracy should embody the popular will — ; ‘ every law which the people has not ratified is null , void is in fact not a law . |
| 9 | The forthcoming contest was of importance not merely because of California 's size and prestige , but also because the state was expected to gain another six or seven seats in the federal legislature as a result of the redistribution due to follow the 1990 census . |
| 10 | Grice suggests that the maxims are in fact not arbitrary conventions , but rather describe rational means for conducting cooperative exchanges . |
| 11 | The bride 's parents are by tradition not permitted to accept the hospitality of her in-laws . |
| 12 | It is not putting it too strongly to say that marriage is in crisis not only in the UK , but throughout the Western world . |
| 13 | The work is of interest not only to the academic community , but to government , bankers and to all who are concerned with the shaping of policies in this most powerful and influential of the Latin American nations . |
| 14 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |
| 15 | They have more sense than money and realise that clothing is about individuality not uniforms . |
| 16 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 17 | The court of Ecgberht was in touch not only with Rome ( HE III , 29 ) but also with Frankish Gaul ( HE IV , 1 ) , and possibly Lombard Italy , its continuing economic vitality reflected in the adoption of the silver sceatta ( see above , p. 43 ) . |
| 18 | The technical information disclosure requirement was in fact not much different from normal IBM practice . |
| 19 | The full amount of information contained in the molecular weight distribution is of course not to be described by one or two averages , the complete set of moments being required . |
| 20 | Quite a number of species can not breed in captivity , and clearly the welfare of an animal which can not breed in captivity is by definition not good . |
| 21 | Drama is about similarities not differences , but of course by looking at similarities , differences might well be highlighted . |
| 22 | In spite of the best efforts of the health service , we had been unable to persuade the public that by far the bigger danger was of children not being inoculated . |
| 23 | Second , her refusal of the counterposition of text and reality and determination to see the work of art as a ‘ sensory thing ’ , was simultaneously an insistence that this already overloaded signifier was in fact not very different from a referent . |
| 24 | Much of the discussion at the meeting was about issues not directly related to cycling , such as the wearing of rear seat belts . |
| 25 | To telescope primitive accumulation and the destruction , or replacement , of petty-commodity production into one continuous process was for Bukharin not only unjustified theoretically , but also could , and did , lead to unacceptable policies being pursued in practice . |
| 26 | At this time her husband was in fact not at home . |
| 27 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 28 | Susan Suleiman points out , however , that Iser 's claim for the multiplicity of ‘ correct ’ readings is in fact not borne out by his readings themselves ( Suleiman 1980:24 , cit . |
| 29 | The negotiations are conducted on a ‘ without prejudice ’ basis and information communicated through conciliation officers is by statute not admissible at tribunal hearings unless the person who gave the information to the conciliation officer consents . |
| 30 | The evidence was of course not even complete when this incident occurred . |