Example sentences of "[det] [be] not [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer said , in effect , " Here is my Horace " , and the reader responded , in effect , " This is/is not the Horace that I know " , appraising the performance from the heart as well as the mind , much as a listener might appraise the rendering of a familiar musical work . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : I wish this be not the hour , the very hour . |
| 3 | If this were not the case it would be a dead subject , beautiful perhaps but boring . |
| 4 | If this were not the case , then the collocation dictionaries would not adequately represent the test data . |
| 5 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 6 | If this were not the case , human energies would be endlessly employed in rediscovering the wheel and , indeed , every other mental , physical and emotional discovery ever made . |
| 7 | While in particular contexts some readings may well be much more likely than others ( if this were not the case , many utterances would be harder to understand than they are ) , the number of possible readings is clearly limited only by imagination . |
| 8 | If this were not the case and F t < E ( S T ) , a trader who bought a futures contract now and held it to delivery would , on average , make a profit of E ( S T ) - F t . |
| 9 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 10 | But suppose this were not the case . |
| 11 | If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins . |
| 12 | If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them . |
| 13 | This is not a departure from random methods since these are used within the strata ; it is simply a job done beforehand as a precaution against freak random results if the distribution of the special factors in the population is accurately known beforehand . |
| 14 | there is no doubt that this is not a publication to be left around the bedroom floor gathering foot prints and Coca-Cola stains , but then similar neither is it to lie moribund on the coffee table or in the display cabinet . |
| 15 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 16 | This is not a question of instinct — culture is learned , not inbred , and does not refer to basic human needs . |
| 17 | This is not a question , as a layman might think , of the size of a sample but of its genuine randomness . |
| 18 | Q ‘ This is not a question , but a report on the solution to my problem . |
| 19 | He told NME : ‘ This is not a question of a lobby trying to dismantle the independent chart , it 's a matter of an established clique actively obstructing the creation of a chart . ’ |
| 20 | Except in the case of the stallion deliberately herding his mares , this is not a question of dominance or bullying . |
| 21 | This is not a question of whether the project can be funded indefinitely so much as a question of whether the initiatives in particular schools can maintain momentum once the project grant has been spent . |
| 22 | This is not a question of the degree of intelligence or education of the adult concerned . |
| 23 | This is not a question of adhering to the structure of the source text for the sake of preserving form . |
| 24 | This is not a question of , ’ Here today , reprocessed tonight and gone tomorrow ’ . |
| 25 | The means to enforce the non-discrimination principle need to be looked at afresh , although this is not a question unique to disability discrimination . |
| 26 | So this is not a question of colour we 're not against squatters , we 're against squatting ; there 's a big difference . |
| 27 | To get into the medieval way of things and because it 's cheap , we all camp down in the same room hence this is not a society for the bashful ( light sleepers are advised ear plugs ) . |
| 28 | Although this is not a beginner 's resort , it 's easy to escape to the more gentle slopes of Lech . |
| 29 | ‘ This is not a panic process , it is a systematically controlled , pro-active programme , which is a continuation of the company 's evolution . ’ |
| 30 | This is not a poll , just a personal interest in how my selected team ( not posted here ) matches up with yours . |