Example sentences of "it [was/were] not the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed this with distaste , and rejoiced that it was not the asparagus season . |
| 2 | In the United States it was not the £75,000 cheque but the $64,000 Question , the top prize in a double-your-money television quiz , that dominated people 's fantasies . |
| 3 | It was not the marriage Rose would have chosen for herself , now . |
| 4 | It was not the overlap timing in general , but the timing of resource commitment that distinguished Japanese from US projects . |
| 5 | For it was not the Police Choir that sang but seven-year-old Maria O'Neil . |
| 6 | ’ It was not the Communion Service , it was the Catechism . |
| 7 | And it was not the five-year-old image of a man that she loved , but the man he was now . |
| 8 | It may not have strengthened the ‘ latifundium ’ as such — the term is ambiguous and deeply encrusted in political mythology but whoever it strengthened , it was not the subsistence peasant , old or new , the marginal villager who depended on the common lands and , in regions subject to deforestation and erosion , the land itself , no longer protected by communal control of its use . |
| 9 | It was not the boat aspect of his idea , rowing boats are permitted on the lake , but some of the club members are saying echo sounders are unsporting . |
| 10 | There was no doubt that Grunte was altogether too much of a bad thing , but it was not the Party Chairman 's task to get rid of him . |