Example sentences of "and [adj] was not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom , and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen 's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef … |
| 2 | As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated . |
| 3 | ‘ And that was not a hint for you to offer me a bed for the night , Miss Rose Fenemore . |
| 4 | But joint Charlton manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ Nobody begrudged Robert his move — and that was not the case with a couple of players when they left . ’ |
| 5 | One lick led to another , in her experience , and that was not the idea this afternoon , there were serious things in train . |
| 6 | And that was not the feeling engendered by her relations with either of the Crumwallises , for example , or with Mr McWhirter . |
| 7 | And that was not the end of it , for there were permutations . |
| 8 | The latter was applying a social policy on which reasonable men could differ ; it had decided against differential rating and this was not a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable corporation could come to it . |
| 9 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 10 | And this was not the moment to suggest that Emilia , with her refusal to let go of Cambridge , to be truly present in the parish , might herself be at fault . |
| 11 | Without an ice axe and with only borrowed instep crampons my climbing ability was somewhat limited , and this was not the place to take risks . |