Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We held out strongly in the EC to have our standards implemented widely throughout the Community and when it was clear that other nations were not of a similar mind , we voted against the directive . |
| 2 | I doubt if Andrew , as a Lowlander , ever wore the kilt and I am certain that his skills as a piper were not of a high standard . |
| 3 | Compaq Computer Corp 's first quarter earnings were better than the highest of Wall Street estimates and some analysts said that if it were not for a negative impact from currency translations , profits would have been a bit higher still . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that the carved metope was in fact a western idea only later imitated in Greece proper , and that the metopes from the foundations of the Sicyonian Treasury were not from a Sicyonian building but perhaps a Syracusan . |
| 5 | Where the sum insured is inadequate i.e. is lower than the actual value of the total property at risk and the lost or damaged items were not in a new condition . |
| 6 | Some critics of the operation have remarked that many of the evacuues , though wounded , were not in a critical condition . |
| 7 | If for example women were turned down more often than men because their employment history was shorter , they were not in a skilled job , and they did not have a bank account , this would not constitute discrimination against women — as the conditions , only part of an overall scoring system , would not be absolute . |
| 8 | It was infinitely more unnerving than that though , for they were not in a sealed room but out in the open , with the air rent with cries from the crowd : screams of naked terror and prayers for deliverance . |
| 9 | Dundee , a university whose publishing and citation counts were low , felt that their consultation records were not in a proper state for the derivation of meaningful statistics . |
| 10 | Yet her first impressions of the Obersturmfuhrer were n't of a brutal man . |
| 11 | ‘ You and I are also required to put in an appearance at the police station later , but I managed to persuade them you were n't in a fit state to answer questions right now . ’ |
| 12 | After the inglorious fall of his Government , accompanied as it was by a whole series of faux pas , Ramsay MacDonald 's future , crowed the wiseacres of London , was not worth a single cent . |
| 13 | I questioned the bishop about this and found that the monument needed immediate attention but was not of a high priority and no funds were available . |
| 14 | The demand which grew up amongst Congregationalists and , to a lesser degree , Baptists was not for a radical shift in the nature of their worship but for the external embellishment of traditional worship : flowers , organs and stained glass , but not chants , Holy Tables and liturgical seasons . |
| 15 | However , despite being framed as a negative provision , the House of Lords held that the clause was unenforceable as it lacked certainty in that it was not for a fixed period of duration . |
| 16 | There was a lower success rate when the angle to be measured was not on a labelled part of the scale ( Table 4.14 ) . |
| 17 | This was not on a massive scale , for the area was sparsely populated in the past , and remains thinly populated even today . |
| 18 | If , and it was a very big ‘ if ’ , Riddle 's body had been substituted for the Scapegoat he felt sure that it was not as a convenient way of disposing of the body but to give more effective expression to the hatred which had inspired his killing . |
| 19 | While at Trelawne he was known as a jovial fellow who drank more wine than was customary among the clergy , but was not without a vicious temper and a rough tongue . |
| 20 | Clara never managed to do anything nearly as impressive , but nevertheless she had her own private favourites ; she was not without a vulgar inclination towards : |
| 21 | At the time of Domesday the manor was not unlike a small kingdom or a dominion within which the lord was a superior over subjects of different ranks , his power though being not absolute but according to custom and law . |
| 22 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 23 | The universe , viewed in those pre-chloroform days , was dark and painful and horrible , and wherever else the human race derived its image of a loving , moral creator , it was not from a simple contemplation of nature . |
| 24 | But last night Taylor said : ‘ Our case was that the video showed evidence of contact between the players and that the referee was not in a good position to judge . ’ |
| 25 | Herr Hess , it seemed to Edward , was not in a good state . |
| 26 | I grinned and seized her , but she was not in a playful mood . |
| 27 | It quoted a hospital official at the Jackson Memorial Hospital as saying that the former first lady was not in a life-threatening condition . |
| 28 | The court heard that Timothy Hardwick , a severely disabled 11-year-old Allitt is alleged to have murdered , was not in a life-threatening condition an hour before he suffered a fatal heart attack . |
| 29 | ‘ He was not in a life-threatening condition and I was happy with him . ’ |
| 30 | Laura was not in a great hurry to find a new designer if only because it was dawning on her that the company needed more of a skilled copier than an original artist . |