Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ii ) Trusts were not bound to a set form . |
| 2 | I was not referring to a press report of the Robert George case . |
| 3 | But the monopoly of transmission was not extended to a programme monopoly . |
| 4 | Tolkien was not writing to a thesis . |
| 5 | The large numbers involved in the various institutions of decision-taking and law-making , the principle of ( usually annual ) rotation among office-holders , and the choice of members of these bodies by lot rather than election , all ensured that participation was not confined to a minority of activists but was spread across the whole citizen body . |
| 6 | It is equally clear that the antonym of namely was not confined to a class of medrese , as in all likelihood was , or came to be , but had a much wider usage as an essentially geographical term . |
| 7 | A problem immediately arises , however , because it is clear from both Ali and Ata'i that the term was not confined to a grade of medreses , as probably was , or came to be , but retained a wider geographical significance , referring simply to the three cities and their environs . |
| 8 | She quite obviously was n't listening to a word of it . |