Example sentences of "[was/were] not the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soaps , audience research had long shown , were not the kind of programme the public associated with the BBC . |
| 2 | The residents ' associations were not the type of organization that would welcome such an alliance . |
| 3 | She sat for the evening with a strange man 's hand inside her stocking , and yet it had not occurred to her that the laws of a disorganized school trip were not the laws of nature or of justice . |
| 4 | " The strings were not the ornament of life but its substance . |
| 5 | The APU fairs even worse with regard to consultation ; for example the six lines of development were not the subject of debate when they were initially proposed . |
| 6 | On Malta two losses were suffered during early May which were not the result of enemy activity . |
| 7 | Consequently most accidents , and there were nearly 500 of them during the 1970s , were not the result of employee thoughtlessness but emerged directly out of the contradictory demands made upon the workforce . |
| 8 | He reminded himself again that he was dealing with premeditated murder and the Glynns were not the sort to resort deliberately to force except in dire circumstances . |
| 9 | Her clothes could not be described as unsuitable for the country , but they were not the sort of thing a country woman would wear . |
| 10 | Cooks were not the instigators of winter sports holidays , that was the achievement of Henry Lunn , but they were the champions of winter sports for women . |
| 11 | Was not the Secretary of State a little disappointed at the reaction of some Church leaders to the successful contact by the security forces at Coalisland ? |
| 12 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |
| 13 | The result was that there was not the level of ability on the shop floor to sustain the German system of decentralisation and shop-floor level integration of work . |
| 14 | Now and again Dinah would come on a phrase that interested her , but it was not the kind of subject she would have chosen to read , much less write out ; and these evenings she had to write it . |
| 15 | But liberty to take action contrary to authority was not the kind of liberty that Anselm had come to Canterbury to promote . |
| 16 | But it was not the kind of station that has taxis waiting outside it , and the two ladies were forced to walk through the crowded streets , now full of people doing their weekend shopping . |
| 17 | The wine , though Richard was not the kind of person whom the sommelier kept waiting , was not particularly good . |
| 18 | She was not the kind of person who was fun , but she was the kind of person that people trusted , and that was a fair trade to her . |
| 19 | Easily enough said with hindsight , but then Eric William was not the kind of man who hid his talents behind a bushel , for as Ivar Oxaal noticed , ‘ Eric Williams was always fundamentally , legally , morally and intellectually right ’ while his opponents were ‘ usually incompetent , malicious , and weak-willed creatures ’ who ‘ are reduced to an incoherent blubbering as the omnipotent young black colonial reduces their arguments to ashes . ’ |
| 20 | Clive Kemp was not the kind of man to inspire such respectful , obedient haste . |
| 21 | Alexander Vass was not the kind of man whom she was likely to involve in such a fantasy . |
| 22 | One neighbour said : ‘ He was not the kind of man you associate with James Bond activities . ’ |
| 23 | The Tehran trip in May , in which he was humiliated , made him all the more certain that however good the ends , ‘ this was not the kind of exchange that was proper . ’ |
| 24 | It was not the kind of approach to the situation that the survey briefing had led him to expect , and Rostov realised that he was going to have to adjust his notions about standards of behaviour . |
| 25 | His was not the kind of face to reveal weakness by showing surprise but his eyes widened fractionally . |
| 26 | She was not the kind of mother who by carelessness would make her child feel insecure . |
| 27 | Borrowing at this time was not the kind of consumer or investment borrowing which we so frequently observe today . |
| 28 | Hattie was not the kind of woman ever to be troubled by demons . |
| 29 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 30 | While this solution lurked in the consciousness of a large number of US citizens and was eventually to appeal to Hitler and the SS , it was not the kind of thing the Americans admitted or believed about themselves , and was certainly not the kind of solution they wished to offer to their civilised European cousins . |