Example sentences of "they [be] [noun] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are creatures not only in the service of Walker 's spiritual symbolism , but also her creative ego . |
| 2 | Since they are analysts not practitioners , sociologists , writers and journalists all have relatively weak professional organisations in bourgeois democracies though , given their different working conditions , the NUJ is much stronger than the BSA or PEN . |
| 3 | I said ‘ These hands I have got , they are hands not a machine ! ’ |
| 4 | In short , they 're advertisements not just for your financial status , but for your impeccable intellectual and social credentials . |
| 5 | Some of the patients with a curve in excess of 100° were no longer able to sit because of the pelvic obliquity consequent on the scoliosis ; they were bedridden not because of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy itself but because they had been allowed to develop such extensive spinal curves before referral to an orthopaedic muscle clinic . |