Example sentences of "[be] not [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cute and sweet are not adjectives that readily spring to mind on surveying the stage wardrobe of Andi , the blonde frontwoman of local cover band Sunshine . |
| 2 | These are not faults that affect the book 's practical usefulness . |
| 3 | But these are not questions that come into it . ’ |
| 4 | Horses are not things that can be forgotten about . |
| 5 | What I 'm talking about here are not things that are unnatural but things that er will come naturally as you relax into your presentation . |
| 6 | Although all the steps ( a ) to ( d ) were completed by the balance sheet date , some would argue that as the redundancy costs are to be incurred in the next year , they are not liabilities that should be recognised in the current year 's accounts . |
| 7 | Many of the questions asked may surprise the newcomer to homoeopathy as they are not ones that a GP usually asks . |
| 8 | For him they are not myths that express spiritual reality ; instead they are mistaken myths . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for the Lloyd campaign , unemployment , poll tax , homelessness and the state of the NHS are not issues that keep the Christchurch voters awake at night . |
| 10 | And yet , when I met them I thought these are not children that I have to think of as children , they 're people and they 're fascinating ! |
| 11 | In a word-association test , joy , gioa , Gaudium et Spes , are not terms that readily spring to mind in his connection . |
| 12 | Furthermore : ‘ The ideals of the person and of social cooperation … are not ideals that , at some moment in life , citizens are said simply to choose . |
| 13 | It 's called compound time because they 're not beats that can be divided into two . |
| 14 | But they 're not ones that are orbiting the planet . |
| 15 | If the right hon. Gentleman goes back to the incidents to which he was referring , he will find that they were not ones that could naturally and immediately be followed by a statement . |
| 16 | This was in the days when torpedoes were not missiles that moved underwater , hence the nowadays somewhat obscure meaning of Admiral Farragut 's remark , ‘ Damn the torpedoes , full speed ahead ! ’ |
| 17 | It became particularly apparent that ‘ crimes ’ were not absolutes that could be taken for granted as being ‘ obviously wrong ’ in the way that positivist criminology seemed to do . |
| 18 | They were not risks that Mario cared to take . |
| 19 | It is not surprise that ‘ deep green ’ environmental groups , closer to the first view , find it difficult to communicate their concerns to businesses and governments who feel more at home with the second . |
| 20 | There is not doubt that certain classes of drug can increase aggression , sharpen awareness and dull the pain arising from injuries , but they are all banned . |
| 21 | There is not doubt that the behaviour of the police and the courts , as well as the wider public , will be influenced by their image of female crime . |
| 22 | There is not evidence that diet plays any part in acne . |
| 23 | The authors argue that this is not evidence that their model is incorrect or inapplicable to treated cases , but that , to a certain extent , the factors which make women vulnerable to depression also make them less likely to receive psychiatric help . |
| 24 | In the book , author Suzi Leather says it is not ignorance that forces many families to cut their food bills , but the impossibility of paying for all essentials out of ‘ woefully inadequate ’ state benefits . |
| 25 | It provides a check on the arithmetical accuracy of the double entry , but it is not proof that the transactions have been correctly recorded . |
| 26 | Accordingly , we agree with Morgan that ‘ it is not sentences that have topics , but speakers ’ ( Morgan , 1975 : 434 ) . |
| 27 | It is not countries that go to war , but men . |
| 28 | ‘ It is not art that needs new roses , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ it is the way men see women . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It is not truth that comes out of the Black Comedy 's darkness , but only sight gags . |
| 30 | It is not weight that is lost , but self-esteem . |