Example sentences of "this [was/were] [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not a threat to the capitalist class , however , because the leaders of the trade unions and workers parties were normally incorporated into the political system and educated to the imperatives and requirements of capitalism . |
| 2 | The court concluded that this was not a publication to the ‘ public ’ generally , or to a section of the public , even taking into account the fact that the M.P . |
| 3 | But this was not a reversion to the pattern and processes of concentration typical of the 1950s . |
| 4 | For this was not a treatment to be found in Gray 's Anatomy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She realised that this was not a woman to whom one chatted about shops or clothes . |
| 7 | A negligently runs over B , who is then run over by C. C's action is unlikely to break the chain of causation , as this is a risk to which A 's negligence exposed B. But if C stole B 's wallet , the court would be unlikely to find A liable , as this was not a risk to which A had exposed B. |
| 8 | This was not the climax to a corny B-film . |
| 9 | He had a sudden fear that this was not the Charleroi to Brussels road . |
| 10 | Whatever had happened in the past , this was not the time to be aloof , Ashley thought , as she allowed him to lead her away . |
| 11 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 12 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |