Example sentences of "be [not/n't] one of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were grand folk , and it 's because of them that I am not one of the antismoking lobby ( although I have never associated personally with nicotine ) . |
| 2 | Pencilfish are not one of the easiest species to breed . |
| 3 | If you 're not one of the 3.5 million who have already contracted out you will have lost out on the chance to back date for up to two years the National Insurance Contributions rebate plus the extra 2 per cent ‘ bribe ’ . |
| 4 | I know you appear in programmes about race relations from time to time , but you 're not one of the usual old gang of faces that everyone 's sick of . |
| 5 | But do n't worry if you 're not one of the lucky winners . |
| 6 | Because we 're not one of the two main parties . |
| 7 | Their problem seems to be not one of the inability to choose goals or to form strategies for achieving them , but an incorrigible propensity to choose the wrong ones and an awesome efficiency in achieving them unless adults intervene . |
| 8 | Manifestly he is not one of the ignorant . |
| 9 | A lot depends on your opponent and the surface , but his volley is not one of the best . ’ |
| 10 | It is not one of the book 's better strokes , since their discourse makes the opening stages drag a little . |
| 11 | If it does not react like this , it is not one of the sorts of society that survive . |
| 12 | Not only were viewers outspoken in their complaints but the athletics writers , who rely on TV coverage , were quick to point out that the London Marathon is not one of the BBC 's happiest events . |
| 13 | Because it is not one of the more imposing buildings for which public funds are more readily available , it has had to rely on the care and attention of those who live around it and they are among the poorer people of the city . |
| 14 | It is not one of the profoundest experiences of the transcendent world such as release or sartori ; nonetheless it is one of the fundamental manifestations of the transcendent . |
| 15 | But because it has declined the environmentalist movement is not one of the main concerns in his book . |
| 16 | The Gamay is not one of the authorised varieties for Champagne , but it has been cultivated in the region for centuries and , at the last count in 1976 , there were 38 hectares . |
| 17 | This time it is not one of the scandal sheets , but the glossy , much-respected New Yorker . |
| 18 | This is not one of the easiest plants to grow . |
| 19 | Let it be said here that Jackie is not one of the wild ones ; he was never , like a Villeneuve or a Depailler , a death-seeker ; his thrills did not come from risk , from playing Russian roulette with life , and unlike them , he had everything to live for . |
| 20 | Pizza is not one of the lowest-calorie dishes you might order , but ounce-for-ounce it can be quite healthy if made with the right ingredients . |
| 21 | However good scenery is not one of the major virtues on the critical scale ; many published opinions throw it in as a sop , a makeweight to balance what they see as much more serious flaws deep in the heart of the Tolkienian ‘ fable ’ , in the essential story of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 22 | Jones , soccer 's anti-hero , admits he is not one of the most loved men around but adds : ‘ These sort things happen and it 's no good saying they do n't . ’ |
| 23 | This is not one of the five Sisters , but is so closely related that its inclusion makes sense . |
| 24 | The question then is not one of the balance of quantities between ‘ market ’ and ‘ non-market ’ activities , but of the quality of performance of such services which vitally inter-relate with more directly market-determined employment . |
| 25 | ‘ For the moment , the US is not one of the worrisome elements in the group 's activity . |
| 26 | This limpness is far from universal — parts of the system are excellent — but you get an uneasy feeling that the tax inspectorate is not one of the better parts . |
| 27 | He says there that the intrinsic value , ( such as the goodness or badness ) of an object is peculiar in that ( a ) it depend , on the intrinsic nature of the object , while ( b ) it is not one of the object 's intrinsic properties . |
| 28 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 29 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society . |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ she went on , speaking to the child in English , ‘ she is not one of the sisters . ’ |