Example sentences of "not a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you are not a UK taxpayer you are advised not to enter into Deeds of Covenant , but to make your regular charitable payments by simple Banker 's Order without any covenant . |
| 2 | So if you are not a UK taxpayer you are advised not to make a payment under the Gift Aid scheme but to make a straight payment by cash or cheque . |
| 3 | The best criticism is that which is both amusing and poetic ; not a cold , mathematical criticism which , on the pretext of explaining everything , has neither love nor hate , and voluntarily strips itself of every shred of temperament . |
| 4 | Not a new situation , for there are ample historical parallels . |
| 5 | It was a medium of the grand form and of the surface , whether polychrome or monochrome ; it was not a positive medium of the middle forms , like oak , or even usually of the assertive instrument , as bronze can be . |
| 6 | Such a frank exclusion from the domain of art is not a solitary instance . |
| 7 | Of course , a theorist may damage an argument through bias , perhaps excluding relevant evidence inconvenient to the case being made ; but this is not a danger exclusive to theorists . |
| 8 | A biography is not a monograph , and , indeed , there are biographies of painters which do little justice to art . |
| 9 | Thomas Cole was not a diarist on the scale or with the range of one of the French painters , surely respected even by him , Eugène Delacroix . |
| 10 | Max Friedlander , an outstanding scholar of Northern European art , took the view that accepting a work into an artist 's oeuvre was like recognising a friend , not a matter of measurement or detailed scrutiny . |
| 11 | The shape of a picture may have been altered , and the museum , though not a stray visitor , will know the fact . |
| 12 | The description of an object is not a simple task . |
| 13 | How a spectator views an object is also not a simple matter , despite this century 's increased knowledge of the psychology of perception . |
| 14 | This then becomes not a description of the object itself , but of the critical appreciation or dislike that the work gives rise to . |
| 15 | It is not a revolution . |
| 16 | And in so doing it can often convey that a past is not a thing to be discovered . |
| 17 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 18 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 19 | When is a Jew not a Jew ? |
| 20 | Singer is a writer of standing in the matter of when , in what he sees as the ‘ disappointing ’ modern world , a Jew is not a Jew . |
| 21 | Be calm , good wind , blow not a word away , |
| 22 | — Besides , you 'll find , that their Couples were never marry 'd : — But yonder I see my Coridon , and a sweet Swain it is Heaven knows ; — Come , Dorinda , do n't be angry , he 's my Husband , and your Brother ; and between us both is he not a sad Brute ? |
| 23 | I did not believe a newspaper should be part of the apparatus of the state ; we are not a totalitarian society . |
| 24 | i wonder … what was I trying to prove ? just that I was not a sheep , waiting to be slaughtered , at their command . |
| 25 | The speech is not a lamenting ‘ downer ’ , it 's full of irony , humour and compassion and honest indignation . |
| 26 | I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art . |
| 27 | If not a provisional card another way of permission to be seen properly at meaningful auditions . |
| 28 | It 's not a matter of theorising — hard work never is . |
| 29 | Auditions are a painful necessity of life and not a fair judgement on your career but you have to go through them . |
| 30 | Acting is not a profession where you can simply stroll on — although I know a lot of fine actors have done that . |