Example sentences of "[be] not [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clearer view exists of what services are not than of any positive identification of their characteristics . |
| 2 | No you 're not but in fact studies show after about the first ten minutes , people are n't absorbing much anyway |
| 3 | The premiums charged by Outhwaite should have been sufficient to cover future claims , but in fact were not because of a heavy spate of asbestos and professional liability claims after 1982 . |
| 4 | Towards the end of the era , in fact , the attendants in the salons of homage became alert to the fact that among their few Western visitors , the majority were not as in awe of the Conducator as they might be and photographing the exhibits or taking notes of the sycophantic citations attached to the awards by their Western donors was discouraged . |
| 5 | The scheme , unlike that of Germany , was ‘ fully-funded ’ , i.e. contributions were not as in Germany calculated on an annual basis to cover outgoings in each year , but supposedly accumulated at interest to pay the full cost of an individual 's benefit , as in commercial insurance . |
| 6 | I am going to say that at the deep level there is not but at the ordinary , everyday level there often is and we need to take it quite seriously . |
| 7 | According to this view the space opened by figural language is not that between metaphoric and proper terms , but that between two or more equally figural terms , which , in Brooke-Rose 's case , are two or more discourses . |
| 8 | It is not that on the borders of logic there is a loose form called argument from analogy , but that all thinking starts from a spontaneous discrimination of the like and the unlike , and tendency to group the similar in categories and expect similar consequences from similar conditions . |
| 9 | The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French . |
| 10 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |
| 11 | This is not because of xenophobia , still less ‘ racism ’ ; prudence is the principal consideration . |
| 12 | It is not because of the poor 's isolation from the modern sector that they remain poor , but because they provide a cheap human resource for that sector . |
| 13 | This is not because of any sudden blinding scientific revelation proving that lead — added to petrol to make cars ' engines run more smoothly — dissolves children 's brains . |
| 14 | This is not because of the often quoted ‘ collection of mulm at the front so that it can be syphoned off ’ which simply does n't happen in a properly run undergravel filtered tank . |
| 15 | The reason why it makes sense is not because of an argument from analogy . |
| 16 | This is not because of any dramatic differentiation between rich and poor within a given village : the great majority remained ‘ middle ’ peasants directly dependent on their own labour for their livelihood . |
| 17 | And the reason it likes you is not because of the bucket of wild oats you bring but because it thinks you are a horse too . |
| 18 | While more REM sleep is taken than on control nights in absolute terms , this is not because of any increase in REM sleep as a percentage of total sleep . |
| 19 | This is not because of their magnificence — Grex Castle in Yorkshire , built in the reign of James I , although very wild and very uncomfortable , is compared favourably by the Duke of Omnium himself with Gatherum — it is because of the social traditions that they represent . |
| 20 | At present , many solicitors simply fail to give adequate advice , and this is not because of any immediate fault on their part but because they are operating in units that are too small . |
| 21 | Despite the fact that about 95% of that can be recycled , very little actually is , but this is not because of people 's ignorance , but more because the majority of district councils in Britain provide insufficient Recycling services . |
| 22 | This is not because of class affiliation to the ‘ class in charge ’ rather than the hegemonic class , but because of the bureaucracy's ' character as a specific category through the intermediary of its relation with the state ’ . |
| 23 | This phenomenon has been discussed above and is not because of the carcinogenic effect of cimetidine but undoubtedly reflects that some patients with gastric cancer were thought to have peptic ulcer and therefore treated with cimetidine . |
| 24 | He justifies this as follows : ‘ If [ Bach ] is great , that is not because of , but in spite of the dogmatic and parching spirit of the Reformation . ’ |
| 25 | This is not because of Finn making jokes ( which he does n't ) , it is from things which actually happen to him which are funny ! |
| 26 | Another is , linked with that , it 's the fear of men , and here again , we see that with Pilate , he lacked the courage of his own convictions and in this respect this story 's absolutely up-to-date in the vast majority of cases people who say no , I will not receive Jesus it is not because of so called intellectual doubts , that is only an excuse , because his reasoning his far above our reasoning . |
| 27 | But the celebration of this act of creation is not offered as a simple honouring of ‘ pure ’ beauty , for the concept of art within which this praise is offered honours the film as much for what it is not as for what it is . |
| 28 | Some courts allow attendance on simple or agreed applications by letter , but this is not as of right . |
| 29 | I 'm the highest paid driver today — it 's not because of my skin colour , my eyes , my hair or anything , it 's because it 's worth paying me the money . |
| 30 | this is a good word because it well it 's not because of the associations but it stresses the femininity and that 's what a lot of the sixties feminists lost , I think was their own femininity because they saw it as man 's imposition |