Example sentences of "[adj] was not a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were like — this was not a convincing argument . |
| 2 | Unfortunately due to a difference of opinion in the after casing of new methods , this was not a successful venture . |
| 3 | I did later show Rowse an essay of mine , but this was not a personal onslaught . |
| 4 | This was not a toxic effect of treatment with DMJ , as cell viability and even proliferation were not altered by DMJ or DNJ as judged by trypan blue exclusion and by counting cells from treated and untreated cultures . |
| 5 | This was not a possible option for Maisie . |
| 6 | This was not a botanic garden in the modern sense of the word , but an area in which Bartram grew and propagated his comprehensive collection of current American ornamental plants for which he had arduously searched in unexplored country . |
| 7 | This was not a controlled trial but a retrospective assessment of the patients seen over the previous seven years . |
| 8 | Anybody trying to bring about a major transformation in a science must direct attention to the facts as he sees them : to a herbalist in the tradition of Culpeper it was an important fact that a particular herb was collected under a waxing or a waning moon ; for one of Liebig 's pupils analysing it this was not a relevant fact at all . |
| 9 | After a few seconds , Ace realized that this was not a rhetorical question . |
| 10 | As soon as they began to talk , you realised that this was not a diffuse collection of misfits , suitable cases for treatment or counselling . |
| 11 | This was not a small achievement . |
| 12 | This was not a simple task , for it was not just a question of choosing one approach in preference to another , but of defining the nature of the object to be studied . |
| 13 | This was not a new development resulting from the occupation . |
| 14 | It may be argued that this was not a new concept of the basic function of monarchy ; perhaps so . |
| 15 | The patchwork quilt of administrative decision-making powers reinforced the idea that this was not a new system of law in the making and the formalism of normativism led to the idea that to the extent that we had administrative law , the subject consisted wholly or mainly of delegated legislation and administrative adjudication ; that is , the forms of administrative action classifiable in terms of a conception of a formal separation of powers . |
| 16 | This was not a new idea , but it attracted increasing support from the 1880s , due partly to the failure of alternative solutions to unemployment and to the apparent unlikelihood of more work being generated in the towns . |
| 17 | This was not a good idea . |
| 18 | As Jenna waited to be collected in Paris she began to think that this was not a good idea after all . |
| 19 | He told me that this was not a good time of the year to see Riga . |
| 20 | While this was not a major consideration when the trial was originally planned the considerable advances in recent years have meant that the significant proportion of the patients recruited into studies such as this are likely to be potential transplant recipients . |
| 21 | As Iraqi Airways suspended flights to Mosul and Basrah early in the war , this was not a major hazard in Iraq . |
| 22 | This was not a powerful cabal , and they had little expectation of early success . |
| 23 | We were not filling the marina with the steel band jollity of Yellow Bird , nor were any of us in our matching blue and white uniforms , for this was not a usual charter , and none of us were at Rickie or Robin-Anne Crowninshield 's beck and call . |
| 24 | From 1819 he sometimes inserted ‘ Hill ’ after ‘ Henry ’ , although this was not a baptismal name . |
| 25 | Yet this was not a criminal trial but a judicial inquiry , and even if Lane wanted to chance his arm by putting the question , Brabin might have come to my rescue by explaining it . |
| 26 | In the end the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Widgery , found for the publishers on the ground that , although confidentiality could be enforced in suitable cases , this was not a suitable case : the matters revealed in the first volume of the Diaries , being ten years old , were too stale to have any security aspect . |
| 27 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 28 | This was not a total surprise , since Prendergast suffered from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and was frequently to be encountered in the Directors ' Lavatory , but Vic had thought he was alone , and felt rather foolish standing there with the stump of the clothes brush , like an incriminating weapon , in his fist . |
| 29 | This was not a selfish consideration . |
| 30 | This was not a difficult patient , rather a difficult medical problem . |