Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I would have stood my ground , I was n't a dog to be sent running hither and thither , but Benjamin added his plea with his eyes . |
| 2 | Molly , anxious again to show that she was not a stranger to the life of Mondano said , ‘ Is it true , do you think , about her parents ? ’ |
| 3 | She was not a party to the proceedings and she was not represented before the court . |
| 4 | The plaintiff could not sue in contract because she was not a party to the contract ; it had been her friend who had bought the drink . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't a subject to Plato , ’ said Barfield , ‘ it was a way . |
| 6 | Fifty years ago it was n't a disgrace to be poor — it was a shared misfortune with thousands of others . |
| 7 | It was n't the time to be playing silly games . |
| 8 | Winnie and Rab , whatever else : the sloshing wine , they kicked and whooped the party , it was not a night to be forgotten . |
| 9 | However necessary a trip to Australia began to seem , it was not a voyage to be undertaken lightly . |
| 10 | It was not a call to workaholism and a sense of achievement , but to an abiding relationship with him . |
| 11 | Somehow this charge generated itself involuntarily ; it was not a reaction to anything with which Jean-Claude provided me . |
| 12 | That was the only trouble with wei chi — it was not a game to be played against oneself . |
| 13 | It was not a theory to be come across elsewhere . |
| 14 | But it was not a solution to overall levels of unemployment . |
| 15 | It was not a matter to which any of them had ever given great thought . |
| 16 | But now that she was here she supposed she 'd better do her best , although obviously it was not a matter to be rushed . |
| 17 | It was not a right to be enjoyed as a source of revenue or worldly glory : it was to be guarded as a gift from the past , representing an eternal principle of order . |
| 18 | It was not a conversion to Christianity . |
| 19 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 20 | This recurred for several nights , and she simply reasoned that whatever it was not a danger to her life . |
| 21 | Yet , Kochan continues , if it was not a guide to what happened after 1917 , it retains its importance as a dynamic diagnosis of the weakness of Tsarism and the force required to overthrow it . |
| 22 | It was not an alternative to cultural transmission , but in addition to it . |
| 23 | But it was not the damage to his hand or the rest of the obvious physical damage that made a tragedy for Tom . |
| 24 | Intelligent independent critics like Beaton and popular magazines like Photoplay knew that Vidor 's work was good but they also knew that it was not the answer to Hollywood 's problems . |
| 25 | ‘ He was n't a stranger to me , ’ Jenna protested . |
| 26 | ‘ A man would have to supply some sort of evidence that he was not a slave to the State , a spy of the KGB . |
| 27 | He was not a man to be taunted into action ; his function was to eject troublemakers . |
| 28 | He was not a man to whom gracious speech came easily and his cheeks , roughened and weathered by years of riding on the open moor , twitched as he sought for words . |
| 29 | It was argued that the sentencer has failed to give weight to the effect on the appellant 's wife and child if he were deported , and that his good behaviour while on bail indicated that he was not a threat to the country if he remained . |
| 30 | He says in the prologue to the Gospel that he was not a witness to the events themselves ( 1:1–4 ) |