Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] not the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Goody and Watt , the development of alphabetic script and its wide diffusion throughout society — the two criteria for ‘ literacy ’ as they mean it — happened independently within Greece and were not the result of cultural borrowing . |
| 2 | Looking across the " alley to the scars of North Hush , it seemed hard to believe that these deep gouges in the earth were manmade and were not the result of some massive upheaval in the earth 's crust . |
| 3 | The discovery was strictly in the tradition of Wright 's philosophy of seeking natural defences against infection , though Wright may have grieved because it was made by chance and was not the fruit of logical reasoning . |
| 4 | The car had the usual teething problems and was not the equal of either the Lotus or the Ferrari , and Jackie 's only victory of the year was at Barcelona . |
| 5 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |
| 6 | How could healing from a priest when I had no faith be of any assistance , and was n't the whole of that phoney world perfectly epitomized by the belief that the wanderings of an old man in the Oxfordshire lanes in the 1930s , seeking the energies of various plants , could possibly be relevant to a most dreaded disease ? |
| 7 | The cause of death will now be established by a home office pathologist : Friends of the dead woman say she doted on her two young children and was n't the sort of person to have contemplated suicide — the pathologist 's report will show whether or not that turns out to be true . |
| 8 | The 1980 answers were referred to , at p. 619 , but were not the basis of the decision . |