Example sentences of "[noun pl] were not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They added that the foreigners were not hostages ‘ in the normal sense of the word ’ but merely ‘ unable to move because of the rebel presence ’ . |
| 2 | Prolonged temper tantrums were not part of his personality . |
| 3 | Kings had ‘ possessions ’ and ‘ subjects , ; the majority of subjects were not citizens and had no automatic rights . |
| 4 | The Minister 's choice was based upon an examination of the Registers of Exchequer , by which it appeared ‘ that the owners of much of the greater part of the property in the district interest themselves for Mr. Lapslie ’ , who accordingly obtained the presentation regardless of the fact that two of Lapslie 's supporters were not members of the Church of Scotland . |
| 5 | His lips were not steel , but silk . |
| 6 | Books were not possessions to be accumulated and , in this town without a library , reading really meant newspapers and magazines . |
| 7 | Many of these sites were not villages at all , but hamlets . |
| 8 | Howard was a revelation to me because his parents were n't intellectuals like the parents of all the other children I knew . |
| 9 | Her parents were not Parisians , they came from the provinces and Jeanne herself combined innocence with imaginative courage . |
| 10 | In the second half of 1848 the Prussian ambassador was reporting to Berlin that St Petersburg 's main concerns were not revolution but a cholera epidemic , the expectation of a poor harvest and a shortage of cash . |
| 11 | That was just as well as our engineers were not professionals by any means , although they always coped very well and our engines gave very little trouble . |
| 12 | Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway . |
| 13 | Eley noted that the German radical nationalist leagues were not tools of the ruling elite but were critical of the ability of ‘ the politics of notables ’ to confront internal and external threats to Germany and German propertied interests . |
| 14 | The Merkuts were not part of the Golden Clan , but the remark contained a certain amount of truth . |
| 15 | Stealers were n't Chaos spawn . |
| 16 | The jeweller said the jewels were n't rubies . |
| 17 | The windows had a sly , mean look , and Fenella had the sudden impression that the Workshops were not workshops at all , but a single crouching monster , black and hard-backed and scaly on the outside , but possessed of roaring , flaming innards , so that every breath it took belched out hissing steam and curls and wisps of flame . |
| 18 | The VDs were n't part of her arsenal , but she would have appreciated their style . |
| 19 | But in his judgment the RM said the defendants had failed to satisfy him that the dogs were not pit bull type terriers . |
| 20 | These costs were not litigation costs . |
| 21 | The CSE boards were not university dominated . |
| 22 | If his targets were n't killers , he 'd send guns . |
| 23 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
| 24 | Marian already felt her captors were not strangers to her . |
| 25 | The passages were not part of the ratio of the decision by which we are bound and with which I respectfully agree . |
| 26 | Everything was er so much more difficult than it , than it is today and er things were not sort of disposed of like they are now . |
| 27 | The people here thought that if your wrists were n't tennis racket handle-width on your sixth birthday then you were called a ‘ fat ’ and transferred into the ‘ right ’ . |
| 28 | Their stories were n't ones of passive pain , but tales of active resistance — having somewhere to run to , they 'd got a grip of their own lives . |
| 29 | If these principles were not part of the staple diet of home life , the battle was ‘ already half lost ’ , no matter how skilled teachers , social workers or other professionals might be in making up the deficiency . |
| 30 | The House of Lords held that since the ship owners were not party to any contract with the tug owners ( the arrangements had been made by the charterers of the ship ) the secondary action was , again , illegal . |