Example sentences of "was not [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was not to the White House but the Treasury Building next door that the embassy car delivered Maxim at three o'clock that afternoon . |
| 2 | Shildon had excused his initial omissions on the grounds that he had concealed that he was engaged in work which was not for the business section . |
| 3 | They said the part was not on the Boeing checklist , even though it has been widely blamed for the crash , which killed at least 43 people . |
| 4 | Peggy was a little surprised to find that 48 , Beaconsfield Avenue was not on the council estate but was one of a terrace of small houses , with front iron-railed , enclosed gardens and all neatly kept . |
| 5 | His name was not on the passenger list . |
| 6 | However , it was not on the priority list of 20 rivers singled out for urgent action by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 7 | Unaccountably , Lieutenant-General Suharto was not on the death list , and it was he who brought the Siliwangsi division into action , and occupied Jakarta . |
| 8 | Because the local representative of Burra and Trondra was not at the February meeting , the matter was deferred until March , when again the councillor for the area failed to attend , resulting in yet another deferral . |
| 9 | But Dr Greenslade was not at the Easter Fete . |
| 10 | If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level . |
| 11 | But Fiver was not under the yew tree . |
| 12 | She was not like the Glasgow woman , who had shown him out into the street . |
| 13 | He said that the handcart was not by the union building , either . ’ |
| 14 | At last he recalled it was not in the Nightingale Gallery but in the one running to the left . |
| 15 | On the rare nights that he was not in The Bar Boy would lay out all these papers in a circle on the floor around his bed ( he had this affectation of keeping his bed , a mattress on the floor , in the centre of his small but almost empty room ) . |
| 16 | Declan Bonner was not in the Donegal line-up — he was far too busy running the show in a club championship match . |
| 17 | The A/G radio operator was not in the control room ; he had gone to change the signals square to reflect the change from left-to right-hand circuits . |
| 18 | Tristan was not in the sitting room but a haze of smoke hung on the air and a reek like a garden bonfire prickled in my nostrils . |
| 19 | Needless to say , there was no promise of 90% grant-aid which was not in the Ashby Report anyway , but the Minister did agree to reconsider the proposal to omit Tutorial Classes from the grant regulations . |
| 20 | If they did not and Harris had been free to work for a GUS company which was not in the mail order business he could still have passed Littlewoods ' business secrets back to the mail order companies because of the structure of the GUS group . |
| 21 | When Nenna was not in the witness box , she sometimes saw herself getting ready for an inspection at which Edward , or Edward 's mother , or some power superior to either , gave warning that they might appear — she could only hope that it would be on a falling tide — to see where she could be found wanting . |
| 22 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 23 | It was not until the Local Government Act of 1889 and the Burgh Police Act of 1892 that the Scottish spelling ‘ Burgh ’ became universal and firmly established in Scotland . |
| 24 | It was not until the Spirits Act of 1860 that bottled Scotch whisky could be exported to England . |
| 25 | It was not until the UN Conference on Population in Bucharest in 1973 that a more radical critique of family planning programmes was launched and widely discussed at international level . |
| 26 | Walahfrid in Theodoric 's Statue had already hinted at his disaffection : Pippin was not among the family party at Aachen in August 829 , but stayed at home . |
| 27 | With the addition of the information about the effect of the sentence on the daughter , which was not before the trial court , the court had come to the conclusion that the appellant should not remain in custody . |