Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the inglorious fall of his Government , accompanied as it was by a whole series of faux pas , Ramsay MacDonald 's future , crowed the wiseacres of London , was not worth a single cent . |
| 2 | I questioned the bishop about this and found that the monument needed immediate attention but was not of a high priority and no funds were available . |
| 3 | The demand which grew up amongst Congregationalists and , to a lesser degree , Baptists was not for a radical shift in the nature of their worship but for the external embellishment of traditional worship : flowers , organs and stained glass , but not chants , Holy Tables and liturgical seasons . |
| 4 | However , despite being framed as a negative provision , the House of Lords held that the clause was unenforceable as it lacked certainty in that it was not for a fixed period of duration . |
| 5 | There was a lower success rate when the angle to be measured was not on a labelled part of the scale ( Table 4.14 ) . |
| 6 | This was not on a massive scale , for the area was sparsely populated in the past , and remains thinly populated even today . |
| 7 | If , and it was a very big ‘ if ’ , Riddle 's body had been substituted for the Scapegoat he felt sure that it was not as a convenient way of disposing of the body but to give more effective expression to the hatred which had inspired his killing . |
| 8 | While at Trelawne he was known as a jovial fellow who drank more wine than was customary among the clergy , but was not without a vicious temper and a rough tongue . |
| 9 | Clara never managed to do anything nearly as impressive , but nevertheless she had her own private favourites ; she was not without a vulgar inclination towards : |
| 10 | At the time of Domesday the manor was not unlike a small kingdom or a dominion within which the lord was a superior over subjects of different ranks , his power though being not absolute but according to custom and law . |
| 11 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 12 | The universe , viewed in those pre-chloroform days , was dark and painful and horrible , and wherever else the human race derived its image of a loving , moral creator , it was not from a simple contemplation of nature . |
| 13 | But last night Taylor said : ‘ Our case was that the video showed evidence of contact between the players and that the referee was not in a good position to judge . ’ |
| 14 | Herr Hess , it seemed to Edward , was not in a good state . |
| 15 | I grinned and seized her , but she was not in a playful mood . |
| 16 | It quoted a hospital official at the Jackson Memorial Hospital as saying that the former first lady was not in a life-threatening condition . |
| 17 | The court heard that Timothy Hardwick , a severely disabled 11-year-old Allitt is alleged to have murdered , was not in a life-threatening condition an hour before he suffered a fatal heart attack . |
| 18 | ‘ He was not in a life-threatening condition and I was happy with him . ’ |
| 19 | Laura was not in a great hurry to find a new designer if only because it was dawning on her that the company needed more of a skilled copier than an original artist . |
| 20 | It was not in a national newspaper . |
| 21 | What if the plaintiff in this case had been a tradesperson ( i.e a lawful visitor to the premises , but one who was not in a contractual relationship with the hotel ) who was injured whilst trying to escape from the fire ? |
| 22 | He was not in a French whorehouse now with his paratrooper mates . |
| 23 | However , Master Benjamin was not in a talkative mood . |
| 24 | It was not until a long time afterwards that Catriona thought she understood the reason Sarah seemed young , which was simple : she looked directly at everyone and let them look back at her . |
| 25 | It was not until a junior school staff , which regarded its professional status as inviolable , was confronted by its Managers that the whole taken-for-granted structure of accountability was thrown into question . |
| 26 | Eileen was n't above a tidy touch of manipulation herself when it suited . |
| 27 | If he could say that , for all his suffering , he was n't in a dying frame of mind . |
| 28 | She was n't in a fit state to be on her own . |
| 29 | That she was n't in a powerless position . |
| 30 | The barman , sensing Whitlock was n't in a talkative mood , left him alone . |