Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [noun] not [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To maximise profits is for management not an optional exercise or a work of supererogation : it is management 's basic duty . |
| 2 | Interferon is of course not a new discovery — it was first reported in 1957 by Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann working at the National Institute for Medical Research in London . |
| 3 | Erm the being nineteen fifty er preserving , this is a quote , preserving a rich peasant economy is of course not a temporary but a long term policy . |
| 4 | That one conception is somehow better than a second , supposing that that can be made out , is of course not the proposition that it is our conception or one of them . |
| 5 | In contrast with a shareholder , the debentureholder is in law not a member of the company having rights in it , but a creditor having rights against it . |
| 6 | Grammatical complexity is in reality not a simple quantitative measure , but a multiplicity of different measures , not only different in terms of hierarchical level , but varying according to the positions and the categories in which complexity is found ( see further 7.5 ) . |
| 7 | Police enforcement of the traditional code , on the other hand , is in theory not a matter for a mere segment of the population , and except where the police deal with persistent or ‘ problem ’ offenders , their target population is one made up of strangers , given to unpredictable deviance . |
| 8 | It is in fact not a doctrine of neutrality but of moral pluralism . |
| 9 | Democracy should embody the popular will — ; ‘ every law which the people has not ratified is null , void is in fact not a law . |
| 10 | The wide gap in the chromosome III ( accounting for 1Mbp of the rDNA repeat ) is in fact not a gap but an undetected overlap of two groups of clones having 5 deleted probes in common . |
| 11 | This is in fact not the case and we are happy to make clear that Mr Davis in fact believes strongly in the rights of all animals . |