Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [be] not [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | It requires that there be an independent and impartial judge to adjudicate disputes , I E a judge who 's not actually a party to the dispute . |
2 | When a tenant who is not already a council tenant applies for a council house , the local authority , before granting a secure tenancy finds out whether the council house will be occupied by the tenant alone or whether the council house will become the joint home of the tenant and a member of the tenant 's family who has been residing with the tenant . |
3 | One of the nightmares of personal injury litigation is a defence blaming someone else who is not already a party , served after primary limitation has expired . |
4 | Even with his fancifulness , it is hard to imagine the civil service employing anyone who is not either a man or a woman . |
5 | Equally , one should perhaps guard against the maxim that a conductor who is not also a creative writer is somehow debarred from access to the grail of ultimate musical understanding . |
6 | That is why the TGWU will not invite to any of its meetings in the House any Member of Parliament who is not also a Labour party member . |
7 | There is therefore little or no scope for the clearing member who is not also a market member . |
8 | Form CHA 71 should be used to give notice of proceedings to anyone who is not also a respondent . |
9 | They have been most recently espoused by the hon. Member for Clackmannan , who is not even a member of the shadow Cabinet . |
10 | Lucky Langdon , who is not normally a cautious person , believes this is unlikely , given the current opinion poll rating , and that the best bet wold be the Conservatives winning the most seats , but without an overall majority — thus returning them to power as a minority government . |
11 | This lack of cash flow does not worry the typical Thatcherite so-called ‘ entrepreneur ’ , who is not really a risk-taker . |
12 | On this subject , I am going to jump the gun and name my 12th man , who is not really a genuine reserve , but simply England 's best-ever allround fielder : A. P. F. Chapman . |
13 | But for the idea to be made manifest one needs a Coriolanus who is not only a truculent fighter but also a thrillingly horrific force of nature . |
14 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
15 | As the work of a man who is not only a poet but a Catholic poet , Paradiso is hardly a typical case , but the sheer volume of fiction produced in Spanish America in recent decades — and continues to be produced — scarcely betokens a general collapse of confidence in the written word , and it is noteworthy that Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , for example , re-creates the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Havana even as it casts doubt on the feasibility of such an enterprise . |
16 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
17 | Is not that the true face of the Labour party — no heart , no brains and a leader who is not only a joke but a jerk ? |
18 | By contrast , the 1935 insurgency in Brazil was instigated by the Comintern through one of its most trusted Latin American lieutenants , Luis Carlos Prestes ( who was not formally a member of the Brazilian Communist party ) . |
19 | Clover Roope , who later became a dancer , remembers going there to take lessons from a governess she shared with John 's stepsisters , and described how absolutely devoted she and they were to this young man with ‘ a fantastic nose and fantastic eyes and this rather long , lanky figure , who was not really a dancer and not really yet a choreographer , but gave the sense already that here was somebody important . ’ |
20 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
21 | All too briefly , until his untimely death in 1944 , there was an Archbishop of Canterbury who was not only a learned philosopher and theologian but was also able , in such writings as his Readings in St John 's Gospel to speak to people at a simple devotional level . |
22 | However , the post of mayor of Sao Paulo , the largest and most powerful municipal government in the country , went to Paulo Maluf , a right-wing populist politician of the Social Democratic Party ( PDS ) with presidential ambitions , who was not only a personal friend of Collor but a former associate of Farias . |