Example sentences of "were not [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new men of the Kremlin were not above the simplicity of taking a former idea and adapting it to their needs . |
| 2 | He would have been happier with a committee , but the owners , of whom several rented rather than owned their boats , were not of the substance from which committees are formed . |
| 3 | The foregoing would , of course , mean that property rights were not for the dispensation of some imagined ‘ god ’ of early superstitious religion , but existed by virtue of the fact that human beings have , in the course of time , generally agreed that such a right was ‘ good ’ , for the reason that without it there could be no peaceful existence and no contentment . |
| 4 | The Rev Aaron Longwe , who has been detained and tortured by the regime for speaking out about corruption , told a gathering of former missionaries at the Kirk 's headquarters in Edinburgh : ‘ If it were not for the Church of Scotland some of us would have been dead by now . ’ |
| 5 | Well , Mrs. Jewkes , if it were not for the thought of that cursed parson I believe in my heart , so great is my weakness , that I could yet forgive this intriguing little slut and take her to my bosom . |
| 6 | If it were not for the possibility of physical delivery of the underlying cash market good by the seller of the futures contract to the buyer , there would be no mechanism to guarantee convergence of futures and spot prices . |
| 7 | The theatre was not something of which her parents would have approved , such frivolous pleasures were not for the likes of hard-working shoemakers . |
| 8 | There was even talk , Frank 's idea , of going to Ireland ( European tours , filling me with excitement at the very thought , were not for the likes of us ) . |
| 9 | Yet if it were not for the eclipses of May , June and November , Pisceans might think they could get off comparatively lightly . |
| 10 | He would have laughed if it were not for the echo of the screaming in his head . |
| 11 | The clumsiness is evident in the standard of ‘ the reasonable man ’ , an anthropomorphic ( and male ) standard which might be taken to suggest a paragon of virtue if it were not for the context of partially exculpating a killing by such a person . |
| 12 | It is rather unexpectedly glutinous and flabby to the touch — all-in-all rather unpleasant , if it were not for the splash of vivid yellow it gives to an otherwise sombre winter hedgerow . |
| 13 | Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order . |
| 14 | The Caribbeans who came to London in the main waves of migration in the 1950s and early 1960s were not on the whole from the lowest social classes , although " the employment made available to West Indians was mainly menial and often of lower status than the jobs they had left behind them in the West Indies " ( Dalphinis 1991 : 46 ) . |
| 15 | But statistics were not at the heart of the thing except for the occasional schoolboy or zealot . |
| 16 | The drugs in these areas were not at the frontier of medical science and acceptable generic drugs existed . |
| 17 | It is hoped to provide a convincing explanation of why such surrenders of so-called national sovereignty were or were not to the advantage of nations . |
| 18 | However , Christian symbols certainly were not to the taste of Elena . |
| 19 | But conditions in the mines are so appalling that if the Furus were not under the influence of the drug they would undoubtedly refuse outright to go below ground . ’ |
| 20 | Synods were not like the parliaments of liberal democracies . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 22 | Improve your mood and counteract stress : Ask anyone who exercises regularly and they will tell you that they always feel exhilarated at the end of a session — even if they had begun by feeling that they were not in the mood for exercise and had almost forced themselves to continue . |
| 23 | When it was announced that the orders were to be considered this week , the instruments were not in the hands of our clerk and our counsel . |
| 24 | Those who were not in the hand of God were the playthings of blind hazard . |
| 25 | But this time , the voices were not in the distress of agony that had been heard in the reception area . |
| 26 | He recognized that many of the weapons were not in the power of the parish system — broadcasting , or literature , or education , or public life . |
| 27 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 28 | And strangely enough , the branch , the branches were not in the machinery of negotiations . |
| 29 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 30 | She and James were not in the habit of phoning each other regularly . |