Example sentences of "was not [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They shall not pass ! ’ was not just a battle cry ; it was a national cry that all of France echoed . |
| 2 | Behbehanian was not just a money man . |
| 3 | IT WAS not just the Stewart's/Melville players who celebrated their promotion-winning victory , but also the club treasurer who has had the impossible task of balancing the books this season . |
| 4 | Goldsmiths College was not just an art school . |
| 5 | This requirement , not being a treatment need , was not primarily an NHS responsibility . |
| 6 | There was not strictly a demand colore officii in the sense defined by Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 140 . |
| 7 | It was not simply the lump sum of human happiness which had to be increased , but also its even distribution throughout the population . |
| 8 | It had nothing to do with Goths and Vandals , and was not exclusively a church architecture , nor was it ‘ the badge of some particular ecclesiastical party ’ . |
| 9 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 10 | It was not quite a desert Maginot line , but a solid enough substitute , with the artillery component sometimes consisting of battle tanks sitting hull-down in specially excavated ‘ scrapes ’ . |
| 11 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 12 | The priest in Israel was not merely a temple functionary , a master and manipulator of sacred ritual by which the people 's offerings and worship were duly performed . |
| 13 | He established the concept of the King 's Peace , whereby the king was not merely a war leader but a representative of God on earth , with the duty of ensuring safe conduct and good behaviour throughout his realm . |
| 14 | A vital feature of this project is that it was not merely an action project with research added on , but action designed so that it could be researched . |
| 15 | ‘ Tony was an exceedingly good writer , but he was not naturally a Doctor Who writer , and I think David felt that too . |
| 16 | That legendary scrum-half , whom no less a pundit than Vivian Jenkins once included in his World XV , built his tally in the days when there was not only no World Cup and no Scotland overseas tours but no French match . |
| 17 | In the first place , there was not only a sex difference but a gap of glaring dimensions politically , socially and even of age , between those who promoted the introduction of women to printing and those who opposed it . |
| 18 | Tobermory was not only a trading centre but an administrative ‘ capital ’ . |
| 19 | For Mrs walker , that periosd was not only a worryiong time but a costly one . |
| 20 | The palace contained one of Bohemia 's finest picture collections and here was not only a picture gallery , but also a collection of graphics , a most important library , and a collection of sculpture put together by Count Jan Hertvík Nostic in the 17C . |
| 21 | And this was not only a Cambridge graduate but a Cambridge resident . |
| 22 | But it was not only the fire risk that was minimised . |
| 23 | It was not only the student movement that suffered in this way ; the black movement in the US , especially when it took a revolutionary form in the Black Panther Party , was violently suppressed , and in Latin America democratic and radical movements were destroyed , and military dictatorships were installed , often with American help , as in Chile . |
| 24 | It was not really a sex scene in the nightgown on and Arnold was wearing his briefs . |
| 25 | The machine was not really a steam engine as it had no moving parts . |
| 26 | Working with Maxwell was not always a horror story . |
| 27 | It has also been pointed out by Kendall ( 1975 ) that the original 1936 legislation on union rights within the enterprise gave the ‘ most representative ’ unions in the plant the right to bargain , which was not necessarily the majority union . |
| 28 | It was n't exactly a copybook launch , though by no means was everything within Ford 's control . |
| 29 | And Bob Dylan was n't just a folk singer . |
| 30 | It was n't just a tourist showpiece . |