Example sentences of "be not [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not normally a follower of the daily horoscopes in magazines as I could not see how one small horoscope could possibly influence so many millions of people born under a particular starsign . |
| 2 | Links with the disability movement are not simply a part of the justification of student participation , as argued earlier ; they may also play an important role in change within schools . |
| 3 | Taxes are not just a way of paying for welfare : they can be a way of promoting welfare too . |
| 4 | There does not appear to have been an account taken of the of the factors that may reduce traffic on the A sixty one er and ways of ameliorating the current problems on the road which are not just a question of the volumes , but in fact the timescale it takes in fact to clear that road in the mornings . |
| 5 | This means that presuppositions are not just a part of coming to believe but the heart of continuing to believe . |
| 6 | These changes are not just a matter of following technological devlopments , but reflect the way businesses are changing . |
| 7 | Social roles , therefore , are not just a matter of the way people can be observed to behave ( in the usual run of things ) but concern the way it is thought that people ought to behave . |
| 8 | ‘ It means that they 're beginning to realize that Free People are not just a bunch of dumb bomb-chuckers . ’ |
| 9 | The reason for this amount of detail is that DOG filters are not just a figment of the imagination , they are actually embodied in a class of retinal ganglion cells , the X-cells . |
| 10 | We have to conclude , I think , that there is a very wide range of meanings which the progressive can be associated with but that these are determined by the particular choice of lexis and are not independently a property of the grammatical category of aspect . |
| 11 | The SWA has always accepted that these changes in the market are not solely a result of the high duties imposed on spirits . |
| 12 | In general the surface energy of these boundaries is actually higher than that of fracture planes within the crystals and so , in a reasonably pure material , the ‘ grain-boundaries ’ are not usually a source of weakness . |
| 13 | And yet Golding is nothing like a political novelist in terms of British domestic politics , and his views about political parties , whatever they are , are not publicly a part of his fiction . |
| 14 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 15 | It is accepted that such activities are not merely a matter of skill , but questions are asked about how far the ‘ knowledge ’ in such fields is capable of being explicated and taught in an explicit rather than tacit , intuitive or mimetic manner , or how far one can develop standard or consensual criteria for judging performance . |
| 16 | However , one thing worth mentioning at this point is that the larger parts are not always a guarantee of an agent 's interest — quite often big roles will attract attention , but a student who has been very well cast in a smaller role may hit the mark just as effectively . |
| 17 | These nematocysts , however , are not really a part of the sea slug . |
| 18 | They are not really a case of proxy decision , save that they instruct others to act . |
| 19 | Characteristics of the patient when well that are still present when ill are not actually a part of the picture of the acute illness and are therefore not important when selecting a remedy for the acute disease . |
| 20 | We can see also , as between the Godwinians and Bloomsbury , that the external relations of such formations are not only a matter of internally defined intentions , but of the actual and possible relations of the whole social order . |
| 21 | If Labour MPs are known to have views which are not necessarily a reflection of the opinions of Labour voters , less attention can be paid to them . |
| 22 | Thus there have been changes over time in patterns of support between generations , but these are not necessarily a result of individuals ' changing beliefs and values about family responsibilities . |
| 23 | Although the overall levels of recall in this study are relatively uninformative because the subjects knew that there would be subsequent memory questions , the dissociation between fixation and recall strengthens Summala and Hietamiki 's claim that low levels of recall are not necessarily a result of failures of perception . |
| 24 | I 've been in the family for generations , said the tray , so you can see that they 're not just a bunch of jumped-up farmers like so many around these days . |
| 25 | We can find out far easier what is really required , and they can begin to realize that we 're not just a set of photographs at back of church with names underneath , that we 're actually person who are thinking of speaking . |
| 26 | they 're not that big , they 're only size eight , they 're not really a sort of stereotype policeman . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not exactly a man of action — that kind of action . |
| 28 | I 'm not normally a fan of painted-over necks , but would make an exception in this case . |
| 29 | Can I just ask , I 'm not usually a member of this committee as you know . |
| 30 | I 'm not usually a fan of active pickups , but I 'm rapidly succumbing to the Eggle 's charms in this department , too . |