Example sentences of "[was/were] not the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DARLINGTON were not the first NorthEast team to find that Tranmere always pack their reserve side with first-team players . |
| 2 | The battle bus was not the great nerve centre of the nation which it might have appeared . |
| 3 | That phrase from An Outcast of the Islands is a reminder that Heart of Darkness was not the only Conrad novel in Eliot 's mind during this period . |
| 4 | Main was not the only excise officer resident in Inverkeithing , and the Cunningham party , while continuing to press for Main 's reinstatement , did not neglect the remainder of the excise establishment . |
| 5 | Kuwait was not the only GCC society to be affected by the war . |
| 6 | Chichester was not the only Sussex town to feel the pinch of economic decay . |
| 7 | But it was not the only rainforest tree to fall on that day . |
| 8 | But he was not the only finance minister in the world to do that . |
| 9 | The search for dollars led to grandiose plans for African economic development , most famously the groundnuts scheme , though that was not the only madcap project to surface in this period . |
| 10 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 11 | But Morgan was not the only merchant bank in favour . |
| 12 | I left her because I discovered she was not the pure country girl I thought . |
| 13 | But it was not the mere surface meaning of the words which arrested him . |
| 14 | The House debated the issue about a year ago and reached the conclusion , on a free vote , that that issue was not the highest priority call on the NHS budget . |
| 15 | This man was not the average prawn boat captain . |
| 16 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |
| 17 | The real prize that persuaded Borland International Inc to buy Ashton Tate Corp was not the fading dBase product line but the InterBase relational database , and last week , the company brought Interbase into the fold with the launch of Interbase server and Paradox SQL Link , which combined , enable the first connection between InterBase and Paradox 4.0 . |
| 18 | Surely it was not the same Glasgow hard-man that had described football management as jungle warfare . |