Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adj] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were n't popular as a family . |
| 2 | There was not a herb or flowering plant of any sort to be met on our walks that he did not know , and hardly one that was not invaluable as a remedy for some complaint . |
| 3 | The tremolo took all the abuse I could possibly muster against it and I can for once say that retuning the guitar was not necessary as a result — absolutely solid as a rock . |
| 4 | The old woman was lying on her back ; the only part of her that was n't flat as a board was the hillocky outline of her feet beneath the bedclothes . |
| 5 | There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress . |
| 6 | And , of course , I was n't present as a spectator , I was there to sit for Pradier . |