Example sentences of "was not [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socialism was not pacifism , neither was it Fabianism with its ‘ superior person ’ bureaucratic tyranny and government by experts policy . |
| 2 | For that reason , many people , at least until recently , would have been forgiving of Germany 's decision to abandon the symbol of its guilty conscience by repealing the right to asylum : the reformed character had done enough to show that it was not recidivist . |
| 3 | Her behaviour had not been normal nor good , but it was not Finn she had railed at on the public highway . |
| 4 | We were told that the reason for that outrageous situation was that , unlike the meat from all the other EC countries , our consignment was not colour coded . |
| 5 | ‘ It was not logic that carried might one say that the quicksilver in the barometer changes the weather . |
| 6 | Britain retained a parliamentary form of government , but what that meant was not government by Parliament but government through Parliament . |
| 7 | The survey , conducted by IBM and London Business School , also discovered that the main obstacle to progress for manufacturers was not government policies or interest rates but the ability to implement change quickly . |
| 8 | But it was not clutter , for everything had its place , Gaily could see that , all was arranged and polished and separate . |
| 9 | The two men , forced by their fate into this intimacy that was not intimacy at all , sat in silence , the words used up . |
| 10 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , John Wilkins was to say that a prevalent objection to the Copernican system was not man 's dethronement but an elevation above his true station . |
| 12 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 13 | I even remember it was a Sunday and thinking that this was not day to be flying your last mission . |
| 14 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 15 | She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that . |
| 16 | It was not licence he wanted ; alas ! not even freedom — his goal was the forcible enlightenment of mankind … . |
| 17 | It was not nausea and terror . |
| 18 | Lord Hailsham said the test was not culpability , callousness , self-indulgent indifference or failure of parental duty , but was the test of reasonableness in all the circumstances . |
| 19 | A closer look and I realized that it was not fog but smoke , and very thick at that . |
| 20 | The client wanted furniture that had a classical feel but was not reproduction . |
| 21 | Brian Pritchard , chairman , insisted that all was not gloom and doom , pointing to the success of West Venture Development , the group 's Southern Californian subsidiary , which this year is expected to double its output to about 500 homes . |
| 22 | It was not fairy gold that had fallen into their open laps : the first Mrs Headleand , it was true , had conveniently died , but Charles and Liz thereafter had worked for their position . |
| 23 | The upshot , however , was not revolution but the destruction of the organization . |
| 24 | After a brew we walked to its foot and to our delight discovered that the covering on the lower slabs was not powder as we had suspected , but acres of perfect névé and climbable anywhere . |
| 25 | When he was not bowling , his cat-like fielding at midwicket kept an appreciative crowd happy . |
| 26 | It was not diversity for environmental reasons , towards a cleaner source of energy . |
| 27 | That was not love . |
| 28 | What she felt for David was not love but gratitude , with maybe a scattering of affection . |
| 29 | But it was not love , she realised that . |
| 30 | From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace . |