Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] not [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for her , Mary was a Guise ; and a Guise was not a court butterfly . |
| 2 | It certainlt was not a sweeper system . |
| 3 | Murder was n't a stage performance by the local thespians . |
| 4 | It is relevant that these districts are large , in some cases similar to old counties , and that rural areas contained negligible numbers of oil workers in 1971 when the energy industry was not a census category . |
| 5 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 6 | In Emma Hotels v. Secretary of State for the Environment [ 1980 ] 258 EG 64 ( QBD ) , it was held in identical circumstances that the operation of a non-residents ' bar was not a material change of use and did not require planning permission . |
| 7 | His choice for this important post was unusual , for the chancellor was not a career diplomat or a member of favoured royal chapel , he was , in the courtly sense of the day , an outsider . |
| 8 | The psychologist in question was not an NHS consultant , but I thought that the public might infer this . |
| 9 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the education minister , emphasised yesterday that opting-out was not an escape route from closure threats , where councils were spending millions of pounds maintaining empty seats in empty classrooms . |
| 10 | Mr Farrell said he was delighted by Lord James 's statement in The Scotsman yesterday that opting-out was not an escape route from closure threats . |
| 11 | The article was not a news report , however , but one of those background features that appear on the women 's pages of quality newspapers after some well-publicized court case . |
| 12 | That day was not a V.V.C. day in Out Patients and , in any event , as it was after six o'clock , Out Patients had closed . |
| 13 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 14 | It decided that the information about prices or as to sales information as a whole was not a business secret in this case . |
| 15 | Darwin erm repeatedly said that evolution was not a perfecting mechanism . |
| 16 | My father was n't a reading man . ’ |
| 17 | And the aunt was not a kind person . |
| 18 | Two-thirds of a total of 324 companies interviewed said that the environment was not a trading issue last year , and 59 per cent agreed that it would not become one in the forthcoming year . |
| 19 | She knew that the job of breaking the news was n't a routine chore , that she had n't been chosen merely because she was the only woman in his team and he saw this as a woman 's job . |
| 20 | It was held that this merely incorporated the words of the headlease , and that the continuing existence of the headlease was not a condition precedent to the right to review the rent under the sublease . |
| 21 | Though there was never-ceasing change , each movement was not a chance occurrence in a hotch-potch of bewildered uncertainty , but part and parcel of a pre-conceived plan , trimmed down or adorned to suit the particular circumstances of the moment … |
| 22 | He saw the ice at the corner of the window panes , the hard blueness of the sky was not a summer colour . |
| 23 | It is an interesting fact that the fastest-growing public expenditure programme under the Labour Government was not the health service , education or social services , but debt interest . |
| 24 | According to Russell LJ the clause was not an exemption clause , but a clause under which the actual contractual liability may be defined and not one which will excuse from the actual contractual liability . |
| 25 | He says music was not a performing art : it was connected to everyday events , to births and deaths , a new house , or a departure . |
| 26 | Earlier , Lord Annan , a former chairman of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting , said on BBC radio that the affair was not a resignation matter for the chairman . |
| 27 | Primogeniture was not the inheritance system used by the bargemen for the successful bargemaster could provide openings for all his sons . |
| 28 | The Lake District in Wordsworth 's youth was not a tourist centre , but an economic going concern . |
| 29 | However , we should point out that decided cases relative to the question all turn on the individual facts , and it could certainly be argued that the tenancy was not a partnership asset … ’ |
| 30 | But the servant , though receiving wages , and therefore a domestic analogue to the worker whose employment defined the male bourgeois in the economy , was essentially quite different , since her ( or more rarely his ) main link with the employer was not the cash nexus , but personal , and indeed for practical purposes total , dependence . |