Example sentences of "[noun] one is not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But more important still , in making such statements one is not asserting anything that could conceivably be interpreted in terms of non-relational , or " qualitative " , properties of the objects concerned .
2 In these cases one is not left after fracture with two or more broken pieces : there is an explosion and the fibre vanishes in fine dust .
3 But , and to repeat the point , in assigning cases to a category one is not measuring the property except in some very truncated sense of the term .
4 One of the most important points of difference between language acquisition by human beings and the deficient parallel process in the case of the ape language experiments is , of course , that in the latter case one is not dealing with the acquisition by the young of a system employed already by conspecific elders .
5 Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it .
6 Bryden tentatively argued that the latter correlation indicated that in terms of dichotic listening asymmetry one is not dealing with something under genetic control " .
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