Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] certainly not a " in BNC.

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1 Every middle-class employee is certainly not a member of the bourgeoisie , but most sociologists would also feel that the middle class are not true proletarians either , even though they own no wealth .
2 Restoration is certainly not a problem in the case of an extraordinary painting by Peter Paul Rubens recently bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum .
3 Few men go to birth control clinics , although the Brook Advisory Clinics have reported a slight increase , and contraception is certainly not a salient feature in men 's magazines , where sex never seems to bring such consequences as birth and fatherhood .
4 Human social behaviour is certainly not a subject to describe in mathematical formulas ; and to some people its study is not a ‘ true ’ science .
5 The reliance on highly reactive and as yet unobserved species in the pentagon road is certainly not a fatal objection : the bulk chemistry of combustion is carried by highly reactive free-radical species never present in high concentration .
6 A large woman who is not apologising for her size is certainly not a figure to invite the dominant meanings which our culture attaches to femininity .
7 The death penalty is certainly not a means of saving money , as many have claimed .
8 the report is certainly not a definitive and unchallengeable portrait of the Metropolitan police .
9 But the TCCB have emphasised that acceptance of his explanation is certainly not a precedent for possible future cases .
10 The National Curriculum is certainly not a complete curriculum , it stated : the whole curriculum must include for all pupils ( and in some cases at all stages ) areas of learning which , though not separately identified , are nonetheless ‘ clearly required ’ .
11 Kalkadoon is certainly not a primitive language without much grammar .
12 VAT is certainly not a glamorous subject and it is easy for those dealing with it to be cynical about it .
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