Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside and outside converged ; it was possible to forget that the lanterns were not the stars . |
| 2 | when you were not the holder |
| 3 | ‘ when you were not the holder ’ This was once difficult for the prosecution to prove as there were numerous local taxation offices which issued driving licences . |
| 4 | ‘ when you were not the holder ’ In most cases the suspected driver will either say he has no licence or he will elect to produce a licence and fail to do so . |
| 5 | These were not the sounds of a new enemy vessel , but the calls of fishes . |
| 6 | But the caustic critics were not the majority . |
| 7 | Franco 's immobility in 1942 – 43 , his smiles first to one side , then to the other , were not the sign of an astute politician , but of the conservative strategist , determined not to risk anything by an impulsive action . |
| 8 | These were not the outriders of a large and powerful army sweeping to join them : an army visible , if they rode hard , in half an hour . |
| 9 | Admittedly , we on the ground were not the ones who put their lives in danger every night , but as far as the air crew were concerned it was a job they had volunteered to do and they did it willingly , believing that every effort counted in the long run . |
| 10 | If there was any ambiguity , that is to say implications which might escape the first or indeed many subsequent readings , they were not the ones which would have made themselves more readily apparent if some form of graphic representation had preserved the tone of voice , the facial expressions or the hand movements of their author . |
| 11 | When Wycliffe at last started to ask questions they were not the ones she had expected . |
| 12 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 13 | These were not the trappings of some Victorianising interior decorator . |
| 14 | Soaps , audience research had long shown , were not the kind of programme the public associated with the BBC . |
| 15 | Did n't you say that those youths who got their friend drunk the other Saturday were not the kind of visitors you liked here ? ’ |
| 16 | My Lords , I found a very interesting er aspect in the Royal College of Nursing 's review was that resources were not the issue , the Royal College itself came down in favour of the fact that it was management that needed to be tightened up and My Lords it was interesting looking at that survey that it was a telephone survey and in one of the two hospitals er one or two of the hospitals that were rung up , it was quite difficult to find the person who 'd answered the survey . |
| 17 | Later they constructed arches with radiating voussoirs — though they were not the inventors in Europe of this type of construction : the Greeks were building in this way from the fifth century . |
| 18 | But these new sciences were not the products of developments within either the morphological or the environmentalist study of evolution . |
| 19 | Those were not the circumstances at Bilsthorpe , but the mines inspectorate insist they were right to allow the roof bolting in the tunnel , or narrow driveage that 's despite the fact that on one side instead of a good coal pillar , only wooden props supported the roof . |
| 20 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |
| 21 | These were not the streets and alleys Vi knew and felt easy in . |
| 22 | Bristol was burning , and these were not the lights of Oxford with a message of unattainable ambition . |
| 23 | The swan-white robes were not the possessions of single families but of the community , and every mother whose infant wore a robe made and sewed a tiny bow to the back of the garment , so that it might be recorded how many infants had been christened in it . |
| 24 | They were not the cream or they would not have found their way to this worthless place . |
| 25 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 26 | If this were not the case it would be a dead subject , beautiful perhaps but boring . |
| 27 | If this were not the case , then the collocation dictionaries would not adequately represent the test data . |
| 28 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 29 | If this were not the case , human energies would be endlessly employed in rediscovering the wheel and , indeed , every other mental , physical and emotional discovery ever made . |
| 30 | While in particular contexts some readings may well be much more likely than others ( if this were not the case , many utterances would be harder to understand than they are ) , the number of possible readings is clearly limited only by imagination . |