Example sentences of "be not [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standardization to take into account the differing age and gender composition of the class groups indicates that the observed variations are not simply an artefact of the differential age and sex composition of the social class groups ( Table 4.12 ) . |
| 2 | If you are not already an active Supporter , contact your local branch to find out what is being organised in your area . |
| 3 | Although draught excluders are not strictly an insulation material , they cut heat losses and improve comfort levels . |
| 4 | This is never easy , and she will only respond if she feels that your suggestions spring from real affection and concern for her and are not just an attempt to dominate or to ‘ bully ’ her into a new regime . |
| 5 | Foreign affairs are not often an important factor in British general elections . |
| 6 | While parents provide a lifeline for many women in poverty , they are not always an unproblematic source of help . |
| 7 | Running dogs offer an especially sporting approach , I think , but dogs working in this way are not really an effective method of combating heavy infestations of rabbits . |
| 8 | His observations made in 1695 are not only an important source of early medicine ( and therefore of world significance ) but are also a vital source of Hebridean social history . |
| 9 | Past results are not necessarily an indication of future performance . |
| 10 | ‘ More bobbies on the beat gives rise to greater confidence but they are not necessarily an effective use of police time , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I 'm not just an irritation , dumped on him through circumstance ; he really is doing this because he wants to . |
| 12 | No , I 'm not even an astronomer now really in many ways . |
| 13 | As I 'm not only an Old Benedictine , but was in the same set as Matron — God help me ! — no-one 'll object after that . |
| 14 | I 'm not really an emotional person at all , just because I 'd rather ignore emotion than confront it , so when it comes down to really heavy shit it kinda just breezes right by me . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not really an oik , a yob , whatever you call us . |
| 16 | my Lord I 'm not really an insurance expert and I would n't like to speculate , my Lord it 's entirely possible that , that erm the |
| 17 | So I 'm not therefore an expert on the issues that are raised by the private care question and I hope you 'll be appropriately kind when it comes to the questioning . |
| 18 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 19 | Pigeons are derived from the Rock Dove and which nested and perched in cliff side and buildings are the nearest thing so I the pigeons are n't really an argument and you do if you want proper birds in the city centre such as thrushes and blackbirds and even sparrows you need real trees to encourage them and the these trees are fairly mature and helpful . |
| 20 | At this meeting there is considerable scope for adjustment , but the process would clearly fail if there were not also an understanding of the need for a consensual solution to emerge , and within a very tight timescale . |
| 21 | Almost immediately , the Ladies ' Association issued a strongly worded protest in The Daily News , signed by prominent figures like Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale , claiming that the acts were not only an attack on the civil liberties of all women but also implicated the state in sanctioning male vice . |
| 22 | Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set . |
| 23 | A teacher who regards his work in this way , who sees his task as being not merely an overseer of academic progress but a mature adult who watches over and helps a child to find personal identity in an ever more complex and fast moving world may deservedly claim to be considered doing work worthy of professional status . |
| 24 | The relationship between you and your reader(s) , especially in academic courses , is not generally an equal one . |
| 25 | At best a written submission for presentation to the tribunal will be prepared , but this is not normally an adequate substitute for the interactive process of actual appearance before the tribunal . |
| 26 | Mens rea is not normally an issue in the case of pollution of watercourses when cause is to be established . |
| 27 | It is not yet an issue of epidemic proportions with the gays of the world about to suffer the fate of the citizens of Sodom . |
| 28 | Britain is not yet an authoritarian state . |
| 29 | IBM said although the VR tool kit is not yet an IBM product , it believes a related type of package could be priced competitively with similar products on the market . |
| 30 | The other problem with this method is that column C shows 00.00 in rows there is not yet an entry in column A. To remove all these spurious zeros all you have to do is to use the command : /Worksheet , Global , Zero , Yes which displays blanks in place of 0s . |