Example sentences of "[not/n't] be a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 2 | If you want to make the most out of your interviews with professional people , ensure that they will be prepared to take you seriously because they know you have not been a time-waster in the past . |
| 3 | Yeah — i have not mentioned Ronny before — he has not been a regular in our national team — but he did play against Holland in our 0–0 away draw and he was also the man that headed in the 3–0 goal on wednesday in Norway 's humiliation of Poland . |
| 4 | It was after myxomatosis ; there had not been a rabbit in that field or anywhere around for years . |
| 5 | In 1980 , for instance , he claimed , ‘ There 's not been a president in modern history , including Franklin Delano Roosevelt and including Lyndon Baines Johnson , who has a better record of support from the Democratic Congress than has Jimmy Carter . ’ |
| 6 | ( One wonders how much the latter has a bearing on the former , notwithstanding the fact that Riley herself is adamant that being female has not been an issue in her career ) . |
| 7 | All sperm is tested twice to ensure that there has not been an error in the initial testing . |
| 8 | In Eastern Europe , policy has driven trade relations ; trade has not been an end in itself . |
| 9 | Does the Secretary of State accept that there has not been , is not and will not be a majority in Scotland for the Trident missile system and that , ultimately , its deployment will depend on the consent not of the Westminster Parliament but of the Scottish people , and it will not be forthcoming ? |
| 10 | We have no direct evidence as to whether the matter in other galaxies is made up of protons and neutrons or antiprotons and antineutrons , but it must be one or the other : there can not be a mixture in a single galaxy because in that case we would again observe a lot of radiation from annihilations . |
| 11 | While this may not be a problem in public parks and other open areas , it could be harmful to the environment if a dog were running loose in woodland , for example . |
| 12 | Again , this may not be a problem in a protected setting but is cause for concern in a public place . |
| 13 | Franco had allowed anti-French nationalism to flourish in Spanish Morocco in the first half of the 1950s , naïvely and carelessly confident that pressure for independence would not be a problem in the Spanish protectorate . |
| 14 | In quantum mechanics it turns out that the operators x and p do not commute , which is why there can not be a state in which they both take definite values . |
| 15 | It seems therefore to show , more generally , that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat you can not know any proposition p of which you know that if p were true , you would not be a brain in a vat . |
| 16 | The first uses PC /k to show that you do n't know anything of which you know that if it were true you would not be a brain in a vat . |
| 17 | But they made clear it would not be a factor in the final decision about where to place the Trident work . |
| 18 | Similarly , if the client would have been a market counterparty if the firm had dealt with him direct , he will not be a customer in any event . |
| 19 | Prior to the snuff-allergy hypothesis , snuff-content would not be a consideration in the making of a garment replicas . |
| 20 | Every office shall , on each day that it is open for business , be supervised by a practising solicitor who need not be a partner in the firm but must have been admitted for at least three years , and be managed by a practising solicitor ( of whatever seniority ) or a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives of good standing and of at least five years ' seniority . |
| 21 | It will not be a Coalition in the ordinary sense of the term but a co-operation of individuals . |
| 22 | Indeed , we suspect that a rule which was never broken would not be a rule in our sense at all but rather an inevitability with the logical status of a law . |
| 23 | But it does not follow that there may not be a difference in the procedures which are appropriate on the one hand in requiring the driver to provide a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) where it is obligatory for him to do so because one of the circumstances specified in section 7(3) has arisen , and on the other hand in informing the driver of his right under section 8(2) to claim that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol should be replaced by a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) . |
| 24 | It can not be a failure in fairness ( in our sense of a fair distribution of political power ) because checkerboard laws are by hypothesis fairer than either of the two alternatives . |
| 25 | And just a week before the Council opened he warned the papal curia that it must not be an obstacle in the way of reform . |
| 26 | He noted that these talks showed that ‘ the difference in social systems can not be an obstacle in establishing in the region a zone of peace , independence , freedom and neutrality , a zone of stability and prosperity ’ . : |
| 27 | There seems , on the face of it , no reason why there should not be an aftermarket in release allocations . ’ |
| 28 | There must not be an imbalance in Europe between those who work and those who do not , and between relative social and living conditions . |
| 29 | If this is so , Quine is wrong to say that one can not be an empiricist in one 's theory of meaning unless one accepts his brand of verificationism , centred on MP . |
| 30 | It never crossed her mind — that was the bad part of the mistake — that for the prince as well the marriage could not be an end in itself . |