Example sentences of "was not [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caroline Fairley , wife of Lt-Commander The Honourable Charles Fairley , RN , had apparently lost control of a car that was not hers on a small country road in Oxfordshire and crashed into a tree . |
| 2 | She could not reveal the truth , because it was not hers to tell . |
| 3 | She had her own shame , and could not rid herself of the guilt that came from loving a man who was not hers to love . |
| 4 | It had lived in her , used her , but it was not hers . |
| 5 | But it was not her he was in love with . |
| 6 | Young though he might be , he was going to need a wife , a family , and it was not her , Alice Pritchett , he wanted to marry , not now , not ever ! |
| 7 | But what he was protecting was not her at all . |
| 8 | If the result was not one for Graham Turner to celebrate on the third anniversary of his takeover at Wolves , the manner of their performance should certainly cheer him on his 42nd birthday today . |
| 9 | But such a future , Eliot wrote , was not one in which he or his readers ought to be interested . |
| 10 | Her experience was not one which supported theories of the power of the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Such a comment was not one , of course , to which any patriotically-minded Englishman could give heed . |
| 12 | His Lordship could not say the Home Secretary 's decision was not one which was fully open to him in the exercise of his judgment . |
| 13 | The opposition leaders he met agreed that the question of reunification of Germany was not one for the German people alone , but was the rightful concern of their European neighbours . |
| 14 | Her first home secretary , William ( now Lord ) Whitelaw , was not one to draw her attention to it . |
| 15 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 16 | He was not one for burning his boats . |
| 17 | My journey , I realised now , was not one that had begun at fixed point ‘ A ’ and would run to ‘ B ’ : crossing space — by canoe or donkey or in the footsteps of — was not what it was about . |
| 18 | My father 's generation was not one accustomed to discussing and analysing in the way ours is and I believe the telling and retelling of this story was as close as my father ever came to reflecting critically on the profession he practised . |
| 19 | Also the subject of slugs , he felt , was not one which made an easy stepping-stone to such delicate matters as he himself had in mind . |
| 20 | The sergeant was not one to be hurried or flustered . |
| 21 | Mostly one was left in peace , as the sight of a solitary figure reclining on the grass , nose in book , was not one to encourage conversation . |
| 22 | Moreover , he was not one to turn an able man down because he was an ideological waif — but that is another story . |
| 23 | Bill was not one for lengthy explanations . |
| 24 | He was not one for the romantic niceties , was Reg . |
| 25 | Victoria was not one to yield up the authority of the Crown too readily and continued throughout her reign to assert it on occasion , such as objecting to the appointment of the nominee of a Prime Minister to a Ministry where she found him personally objectionable . |
| 26 | Jonadab confirmed that the shepherd was not one for strong drink and was beginning to think that George had possibly made a good choice , when the old farmer and his wife came back along the line . |
| 27 | His nephew was not one to yield the initiative readily . |
| 28 | The prospect of a President Dan Quayle was not one many relished . |
| 29 | She was not one for showing off , she just liked to do the washing up and be there and look after everybody . |
| 30 | Moreover , the vice of sodomy , which Anselm was especially harsh in denouncing in his conciliar decrees , was not one to which Henry 's court , unlike Rufus 's , was especially addicted . |