Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] not the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not the operations room of a naval warship or a secret room in the White House but my modest office above a restaurant in north London . |
| 2 | This was not the berserker bravery of the Chaos Hordes ; this incredible tenacity was allied to tactical cunning and consummate military skill . |
| 3 | THIS WAS NOT THE FAREWELL appearance Nigel Mansell had wanted . |
| 4 | But , as Mr Malik kept reminding him , this was not the target audience of the school . |
| 5 | The North East of the 1950s and early 1960s was not the North East of 1914 , not least in terms of domestic arrangements , demography and completed family sizes . |