Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite suddenly whether Anne worried or what she thought were not of the least importance . |
| 2 | The Roman Church had become very powerful and dismissed the Greeks as impious heretics who were not on the same level as the holy church of the West . |
| 3 | Now I had a pair who were not from the same parents and who seemed fairly suited . |
| 4 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 5 | Henry VI was not of the same calibre as his father . |
| 6 | Lord Scarman 's inquiry was not on the same scale as the famous Kerner Report in 1968 on the US riots , but since the publication of his Report in November 1981 his views and prescriptions have played an important role in fashioning political debate about the riots . |
| 7 | Despite the repression practised by the Somoza regime in Nicaragua , its legacy of under-development was not on the same scale as that left by some 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique . |
| 8 | was not on the same line . |
| 9 | Although friendly , the hostel was not in the same class as its neighbour at Boggle Hole . |
| 10 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 11 | Feeling more than ready to pass him without acknowledgement , she found , however , that he was n't of the same mind . |
| 12 | And so what we did , we ran this particular course , erm , for which we we received a fee , but it came back as expenses area , was n't under the same arrangement as the rest of it . |
| 13 | I do n't know if we can tell really much about such things , but I 'd have said it was n't from the same man . ’ |
| 14 | It was more irritating still to realise he was n't in the least bit put out by the woman 's comments . |
| 15 | ARDS manager Paul Malone was n't in the least bit perturbed at his side 's inept display at Newry . |
| 16 | No I was n't , no I was n't in the least bit impressed with it . |
| 17 | In the first set he simply was n't in the same class as his 21-year-old opponent in the huge Olympic Hall , at times pleading theatrically with Ferreira not to hit so hard , and giving his racket to a ball-boy as if to say , ‘ you have a go , you ca n't be worse than me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Burger was n't in the same class as the other two , he did n't pretend to be . ’ |