Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [art] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commercial attachés were not a complete answer to the problem of coping with the increasing volume and importance of economic diplomacy . |
| 2 | Air raids were not the only hazard to which central Baghdad was exposed . |
| 3 | Incidents of this kind were not the only contribution to tension over this period . |
| 4 | Accordingly , perception of a gap between social and private returns was not a major handicap to investment . |
| 5 | It can be argued that the individual peasant proprietorship envisaged by reformers was not a practical solution to the agrarian problems of the southern secano . |
| 6 | Enough for me to know that this house was not a good place to be when he was alive , not good for either of you . |
| 7 | The result of the Bundestag election , which had been an affirmation of unification rather than an orthodox contest between the governing parties and the opposition , was not a good guide to subsequent Land election results . |
| 8 | Accordingly , she was not a legal person to whom a duty of care could be owed . |
| 9 | To this question the defendant answers ‘ No , ’ because at the time of his neglect the plaintiff was not in existence as a living person , had no separate existence apart from her mother , was not capable of suing to assert a legal right , and was not a legal person to whom he could be under a duty . |
| 10 | Clause 16 was not a genuine reservation to Mr Antoniades of a power to share the flat … |
| 11 | There was not a sharp transition to the next phase because public sector over spill of a ‘ simple housing kind ’ continued into the early 1960s . |
| 12 | Perhaps the strongest is that there are species in which some females reproduce sexually , and others by parthenogenesis : if there was not a short-term advantage to sex , the parthenogenetic females would long ago have replaced the sexual ones . |
| 13 | I loathe the documents that prove that ‘ Guernica ’ was not a generous gift to the nation but was in fact sold by Picasso for FFr150,000 , the largest sum the painter had so far earned , thus permitting the work to be shown at the Centro Reina Sofía . |
| 14 | It seems that the non-malicious act of a stranger was not a valid defence to the scienter action , because it was within the risk that must be accepted by anyone who knowingly chooses to keep a dangerous animal . |
| 15 | The strident anti-union bloc of small businessmen , outraged sections of the middle classes , and probably also elements of the non-union working class , was not a sufficient counterweight to organised labour , given the tendency for the management of large enterprises to stand above the fray . |
| 16 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |
| 17 | However , any conclusion that Portugal 's rights have indeed been violated must imply that Indonesia was not a proper party to the treaty , which must therefore be invalid . |
| 18 | The county council says the waste was not a potential risk to the public . |
| 19 | Provided the gamma dose rate , which had possibly changed at some point in the history of the daub , was not a dominant contribution to the TL age , TL could solve the mystery . |
| 20 | It was not a happy journey to the car and I sat silently and unhappily in the back as we drove away , despite my friends ' jolly attempts to think up song titles with the word ‘ flask ’ in them . |
| 21 | A major shrine was not an unequivocal blessing to its guardians . |
| 22 | This was not an opportunist concession to Derry 's Catholic majority , since he also stressed that any weakening of the link with the United Kingdom was unacceptable to the NILP and that the constitutional issue should not become ‘ a party shuttlecock ’ . |
| 23 | It was not an auspicious start to my time there and the physical education staff were , to say the least , not well pleased ! |
| 24 | It was not the complete answer to the problem , and I doubt if anyone will find it , but it works better than anything else I know . |
| 25 | Searching on hands and knees at the crack of dawn was not the best start to a day , especially a day like this one ! |
| 26 | This was not the only blow to the club . |
| 27 | Foreign Minister Agramonte was not the only person to be dismissed on 12 June . |
| 28 | As we know , Prince Metternich was not the only person to be put into a diplomatic bag . |
| 29 | Ice was not the only obstacle to building the RRS . |
| 30 | The Prince Albert was not the only ship to be held up by a dockers ' strike : at the East India Docks , the Jolly George with a similar load of armaments for Poland , was prevented from sailing . |