Example sentences of "was not a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that ‘ language , in short , was not a question of sounds only — it was a whole complex of verbal and non-verbal communication , some of it highly individual and dependent on familiarity for its comprehension . |
| 2 | Twenty-four hours later he admonished Babs for over-stressing the little-girl aspect of Cleopatra , pointing out that childishness of character was not a question of years and that she was mistaken if she supposed the difference between folly and wisdom had anything to do with either age or youth . |
| 3 | Lady after lady breathed heavier when Pen dashed in and out , and on the days when Wilson was a little late with the supper — which she now undertook to provide — on account of having been delayed taking tea with Mrs Browning there was not a word of complaint but only a diffident enquiry as to how the venerable poetess had seemed . |
| 4 | It has to be remembered that Britain of the 1920s was not a land of milk and honey . |
| 5 | He said this was not a change in policy , because peacekeepers had a duty to see that no harm came to civilians . |
| 6 | Bamford wrote of his parish church in the eighteenth century : " every one in those days admitted that there was not a rood of earth around it which was not redolent of supernatural associations " . |
| 7 | He was older than me ; he was not a boy like Darnley . |
| 8 | It was argued on Mrs Flint 's behalf that the transfer of property order was not a disposition by Mr Flint but a disposition by the Court and therefore s 284 did not apply . |
| 9 | The pointed arch was merely the most efficient form of building technology at the time ( in Stamford a pointed arch is sometimes used in medieval cellars to span the sites of earlier quarry pits ) and the undercroft at no. 13 St. Mary 's Hill was not a crypt for St. Mary 's Church , but a shop with steps giving access to the street . |
| 10 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 11 | It was not a way of life he would have considered particularly pious ; to be content with it , and not strain to improve it , he would not have considered unmanly or unadventurous . |
| 12 | ‘ Has there ever been an ecumenical Council ’ , he asks , ‘ which was not a way of self-renewal through an encounter with the Risen Jesus , the glorious and immortal King , whose light illumines the whole Church for the salvation , joy and glory of all peoples ? ’ |
| 13 | No , preserving a small majority was not a triumph for Mr Major in the real world . |
| 14 | It claimed that Ms Oruene had failed to show she was treated less favourably than any other candidate and that there was not a shred of evidence to show that it had deviated from normal procedures . |
| 15 | First , it was not a strike over wages — although a wage claim was later added to the terms on which the Union was prepared to return to work ; it was about the future of the coalmining industry in Great Britain , and in particular was a protest against a plan for extensive pit closures with consequences for both miners ' jobs and the future of their communities . |
| 16 | By the time Woolley arrived in her ward she was turning into a slaughterhouse attendant : she no longer saw them as men but as damaged stock ; if they screamed it was not a sign of pain but a signal to fetch a doctor . |
| 17 | She was not a customer of Barclays Bank . |
| 18 | The town , however , was closer to Adenauer 's home , was not a centre of SPD support , and could more easily be seen as a ‘ temporary ’ capital until an all-German government was re-established in Berlin . |
| 19 | The South Africans were escorted through red traffic lights to their hotel by police motorcyclists and vehicles , but there was not a demonstrator in sight . |
| 20 | There was not a jot of humour in the man . |
| 21 | But Mr Riley argued that the parking on Hollyhurst Road was not a hazard to pedestrians who had to cross between parked cars instead they slowed down the speeding cars . |
| 22 | P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) . |
| 23 | In the deductive marking experiment there was not a conflict of beliefs , so the five-year-olds ' performance might have been due to the fact that the context did not highlight the need for a deductive explanation . |
| 24 | Even when there was not a conflict of jurisdiction , there would often be much coming and going between the courts to ensure that the various aspects of a complex case were handled in unison ( see pp. 414 f . ) . |
| 25 | But this was not a circumstance of homicide . |
| 26 | But he 'd seen her hurt , she realised , for even as she made a dash for the door , he caught up with her and , to her astonishment , there was not a scrap of aggression in him as he groaned , ‘ Oh , lord , ’ and more astonishingly , he gently put his arms around her . |
| 27 | Ninety per cent of those interviewed said that the problem they faced was not drought ; 80 per cent said it was not a shortage of land . |
| 28 | Faces leered , and all the struggling in the world was not a bit of use . |
| 29 | Although no opinion could be expressed about the propriety of interventions in particular cases — the enquiry was not a court of law — the report recognized that sexual abuse was no myth , and that it had indeed occurred in Cleveland in many cases . |
| 30 | This was not a Court of Law . |