Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [was/were] not the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had suggested that Longman 's should send it to The Criterion , but obviously I was not the right person to review it . |
| 2 | So I was n't the only duffer around after all . |
| 3 | They all laughed , rather more heartily than the witticism warranted ; so I was not the only one who felt awkward . |
| 4 | So she was n't the sole occupant after all , she thought , amused . |
| 5 | Her agent — perhaps he was n't the best in the world — never got her an American tour which , again , might have made all the difference . |
| 6 | Charles got the impression that perhaps he was n't the first to have followed this particular route . |
| 7 | So it was n't the sexual aspect of Helena 's affair that interested him but its romantic side . |
| 8 | I was pleased to renew friendships made over two years ago at the First Congress of Black Catholics , and it was a joy to be again in a crowd of African , Afro-Caribbean and Asian Catholics where for once I was not the only black face in a sea of white ones . |
| 9 | and I said well she was n't the last time I saw her |
| 10 | Well you were n't the only one out on the landing then ? |
| 11 | Louis Pasteur had observed it in 1877 , but even he was not the first to do so . |
| 12 | Surely it was not the same Glasgow hard-man that had described football management as jungle warfare . |
| 13 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 14 | ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 15 | Fortunately it was n't the usual Aussie surf ! |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe it was n't the wisest thing to have done , ’ Lisa reflected to Josey over a cup of tea that evening . |
| 17 | Maybe it was n't the last word in smartness - far from it — but it was very warm and comfortable , if rather too big . |
| 18 | On the other hand , order out of chaos and the rebirth of a defeated nation were admirable reasons for being attracted to Fascism , yet they were n't the real ones in her case , and even if Hitler had mesmerised her very conclusively for a time , she was older and wiser now and able to revise her view of a man who could change his principles so casually in the light of expediency . |
| 19 | Certainly he was not the first to have been struck by the idea , and in his first book on leys he quotes a reference from 1882 in which G.H. Piper notes an alignment of several sites in Herefordshire . |