Example sentences of "[was/were] not a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not a subdivision of Judaism , propounding one or another theological position . |
| 2 | The general form relied on the argument that the riots were not a form of protest against the insufferable social conditions of inner-city areas or the actions of the police , but a ‘ criminal act ’ or a ‘ cry for loot ’ . |
| 3 | So all their efforts to create helium from hydrogen hat been fruitless ; the traces of helium that they saw had been absorbed from the environment and were not a product of fusion . |
| 4 | Buckingham Palace were n't a lot of help in the matter yesterday . |
| 5 | Were n't a lot of choice was there ? |
| 6 | There were n't a lot of bleach in it . |
| 7 | There were n't a lot of room but you do n't care do you ? |
| 8 | Lady after lady breathed heavier when Pen dashed in and out , and on the days when Wilson was a little late with the supper — which she now undertook to provide — on account of having been delayed taking tea with Mrs Browning there was not a word of complaint but only a diffident enquiry as to how the venerable poetess had seemed . |
| 9 | It has to be remembered that Britain of the 1920s was not a land of milk and honey . |
| 10 | Bamford wrote of his parish church in the eighteenth century : " every one in those days admitted that there was not a rood of earth around it which was not redolent of supernatural associations " . |
| 11 | It was not a way of life he would have considered particularly pious ; to be content with it , and not strain to improve it , he would not have considered unmanly or unadventurous . |
| 12 | ‘ Has there ever been an ecumenical Council ’ , he asks , ‘ which was not a way of self-renewal through an encounter with the Risen Jesus , the glorious and immortal King , whose light illumines the whole Church for the salvation , joy and glory of all peoples ? ’ |
| 13 | It claimed that Ms Oruene had failed to show she was treated less favourably than any other candidate and that there was not a shred of evidence to show that it had deviated from normal procedures . |
| 14 | By the time Woolley arrived in her ward she was turning into a slaughterhouse attendant : she no longer saw them as men but as damaged stock ; if they screamed it was not a sign of pain but a signal to fetch a doctor . |
| 15 | There was not a jot of humour in the man . |
| 16 | P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) . |
| 17 | Even when there was not a conflict of jurisdiction , there would often be much coming and going between the courts to ensure that the various aspects of a complex case were handled in unison ( see pp. 414 f . ) . |
| 18 | But this was not a circumstance of homicide . |
| 19 | But he 'd seen her hurt , she realised , for even as she made a dash for the door , he caught up with her and , to her astonishment , there was not a scrap of aggression in him as he groaned , ‘ Oh , lord , ’ and more astonishingly , he gently put his arms around her . |
| 20 | Ninety per cent of those interviewed said that the problem they faced was not drought ; 80 per cent said it was not a shortage of land . |
| 21 | Faces leered , and all the struggling in the world was not a bit of use . |
| 22 | Although no opinion could be expressed about the propriety of interventions in particular cases — the enquiry was not a court of law — the report recognized that sexual abuse was no myth , and that it had indeed occurred in Cleveland in many cases . |
| 23 | This was not a Court of Law . |
| 24 | B.B.C. the House of Lords decided that a valuation court was not a court of law , the proceedings of which might be protected from outside influence by the law of contempt . |
| 25 | For the LEA , and somewhat untypically of most LEAs at that time , it was not a problem of finance for the scheme which had been difficult but the reluctance to establish a precedent through appointing a tutor for adult education . |
| 26 | I HAD EVEN WRITTEN : ONE , THE TRAVELLING COMPANION , WHICH WAS RETURNED BY AN EDITOR ON THE PLEA THAT IT WAS A WORK : OF GENIUS AND INDECENT , AND WHICH I BURNED THE OTHER DAY ON THE GROUND THAT IT WAS NOT A WORK OF GENIUS , AND THAT JEKYLL HAD SUPPLANTED IT . |
| 27 | The catastrophists ' notion of mass extinction allowed them to believe that the disappearance of species was not a part of Nature 's regular operations , but occurred only in those exceptional interludes when the earth 's normal stability was interrupted by some gigantic convulsion . |
| 28 | But the sale was not a precondition of clearance . |
| 29 | held that no award would be made as defender did not have means and resources to make the payment as there was not a contract of insurance in his favour . |
| 30 | The House of Lords held that this agreement was not a contract of sale and that the customer was not a ‘ buyer . ’ |