Example sentences of "[pron] is not " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is not a dour presence , still less a melancholic one . |
| 2 | Although the passion-merchant , the soul man , is in pursuit of some sort of authenticity , a confirmation of his depth of feeling , his is not his own voice , is rather the convention , a tear-jerk reaction . |
| 3 | In other words his is not the sort of playing which grabs you by the scruff of the neck , but rather disarmingly makes the whole process of playing this hugely demanding music appear the most natural thing in the world . |
| 4 | His is not just a lovingly maintained and highly polished old car . |
| 5 | As Mehigan argues : ‘ [ t ] his is not a loop-hole but a sensible realisation that even if [ a ] company is the beneficiary of a deal then there must exist individuals who caused it to be so . ’ |
| 6 | His is not an isolated story — to this day many people report hearing or seeing a strange presence on the slopes of the mountain . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ There is no doubt that they have to consider the possibility of closing the fund , but his is not what they want to do . |
| 8 | His is not a bad life : I could take to it myself . ’ |
| 9 | His prize was three hundred pounds and the silver cup and let's hope his is not the last name to get engraved on the Tour of Cotswolds Trophy |
| 10 | This is similar to ‘ Futility ’ in the sense that Owen uses personal experience to get his message across but his is not so much about the pointlessness of war in general but is more focused on the individual soldier and the difference between death on the battlefield and death in your own town . |
| 11 | The Commissioner stressed right from the start that she is not an Ombudsman-it is not the task of her office to offer a conciliation or advisory service to help resolve disputes between a union and its members . |
| 12 | Bank and building society managers are supposed to be approachable : if yours is not then change to another branch . |
| 13 | Your conception of pains which are not yours is not a conception of something which is like your pain , since it hurts , but which is not one of yours . |
| 14 | Even if yours is not a beach holiday , you should n't need much . |
| 15 | I am here and this husband of yours is not . |
| 16 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 17 | As Box puts it , a person accused of stabbing someone is not likely just to be charged with ‘ carrying an offensive weapon ’ . |
| 18 | If he feels someone is not applying themselves 100 per cent , he wo n't spare reputations or ego — whoever you are . |
| 19 | For example , for most managers , firing someone is not a pleasant experience . |
| 20 | Often when someone is not pleased with me , they say ‘ you are very determined today . ’ |
| 21 | Says Souness : ‘ I think you realise quite quickly if someone is not suited to playing for you or your club then you do what you have to do . ’ |
| 22 | They are the tell-tale signs that the someone is not in . |
| 23 | Post-structuralist texts expose the role of language in deferring meaning and in constructing a subjectivity which is not fixed but is constantly negotiated through a whole range of forces — economic , social and political . |
| 24 | It might make artistic sense for the gallery to borrow some key picture to enhance the look of an exhibition , but a picture which is not for sale is an expensive use of wall space . |
| 25 | This is as unsatisfactory as reading about a picture which is not illustrated . |
| 26 | A further example of abstract form which is not mere pattern is Tantric art . |
| 27 | Klima 's stories breathe a delicate patriotism — which is not absent , either , from Kundera 's accounts of a country which is harder to inhabit , or remain in , or return to . |
| 28 | It 's a very funny joke , but it works at the expense of treating her like a child , which is not at all what the novel usually intends . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood . |
| 30 | Should Amis 's friendship with Larkin — which goes unstated in Amis 's fiction , but which is not absent from it — matter to the reader of that fiction ? |