Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not a threat to the capitalist class , however , because the leaders of the trade unions and workers parties were normally incorporated into the political system and educated to the imperatives and requirements of capitalism . |
| 2 | The court concluded that this was not a publication to the ‘ public ’ generally , or to a section of the public , even taking into account the fact that the M.P . |
| 3 | But this was not a reversion to the pattern and processes of concentration typical of the 1950s . |
| 4 | For this was not a treatment to be found in Gray 's Anatomy . |
| 5 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 6 | She realised that this was not a woman to whom one chatted about shops or clothes . |
| 7 | A negligently runs over B , who is then run over by C. C's action is unlikely to break the chain of causation , as this is a risk to which A 's negligence exposed B. But if C stole B 's wallet , the court would be unlikely to find A liable , as this was not a risk to which A had exposed B. |
| 8 | This was not the climax to a corny B-film . |
| 9 | He had a sudden fear that this was not the Charleroi to Brussels road . |
| 10 | Whatever had happened in the past , this was not the time to be aloof , Ashley thought , as she allowed him to lead her away . |
| 11 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 12 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 13 | But 1939 was not a year to be starting any scholarly project . |
| 14 | The three parties fought the elections for the Constitutional Convention as a coalition with a joint manifesto which-emphasised that Northern Ireland should remain indefinitely as an integral part of the United Kingdom and that power would not be shared with Republicans although that was not an objection to Catholics as such . |
| 15 | The Cabinet did behave as a Cabinet and although I said earlier about the Treasury being forced to disgorge information when the DEA existed , that was n't the case to the same extent in 1976 . |
| 16 | Er and I suppose the great you know lesson of social sciences in , in some ways if it 's , if it 's for anything it ought to be to try and avoid that kind of disaster , because erm if we understood ourselves better we might you know in the future try and avoid that thing because we just would n't attempt if , if that was n't an attempt to be . |