Example sentences of "[was/were] not [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were still rumours that the Caldecott business methods were not above suspicion , but he became part of the establishment . |
| 2 | Mm , the visions that they had were not as reality they were only like visions they had |
| 3 | But the messages of her paintings to his paintings were not about domestication . |
| 4 | There were essential differences between them , so that arguments between splitters and lumpers were not about convenience , but about truth . |
| 5 | Of his study visits to pre-war Vienna , his strongest memories were not of virtuosos but of composers conducting , notably Richard Strauss directing his operas and Anton Webern the symphonies of Mahler . |
| 6 | In the evil , glowing red light they could see that the walls were not of brick or timber or of anything that walls were normally made of . |
| 7 | Adult deaf activities were not of course confined to sports . |
| 8 | The lower classes were not of course alone in making a habit of over-indebtedness , nor indeed were the middle classes . |
| 9 | 29996 preserves many more of his compositions , together with an alternatim organ Mass by another St. Paul 's musician Philip ap Rhys , who succeeded him as organist , and a considerable number of organ works ( including the Proper of a Mass for Easter Day and eight ‘ Felix namque ’ which might be regarded as a set of variations though they were not of course played as such ) by Thomas Preston ( d. c. 1564 ) , organist of Magdalen College , Oxford , and later of the Chapel Royal at Windsor . |
| 10 | The tokens were not of bondage , no one was trying to trap me , to possess me , to take me over . |
| 11 | His thoughts were not of Britain 's fate , nor Poland 's , but of Hannele 's . |
| 12 | He knows the authority that he 's had in that community , he has seen supernatural things happening in his life and through him , albeit , they were not of God , but has been involved in supernatural things . |
| 13 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 14 | This death of Solomon reissues would be understandable if it were not for treatment given by EMI to other pianists . |
| 15 | Lord Templeman said that such matters were not for judges ‘ who are not qualified to listen ’ but for the Minister , for Members of Parliament , and ultimately for the electorate . |
| 16 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 17 | But , she told herself sternly , she was nothing but a foolish girl , men the like of Craig Grenfell were not for Hari Morgan . |
| 18 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on Sept. 1 claiming that political prisoners were being used as forced labour in prison factories producing for export in Liaoning Province , and rejecting the Chinese government 's claim that prison-made products were not for export . |
| 19 | If it were not for Section 8 of the Contempt of Court Act , we might be able to make reforms more rationally on the basis of , at least , a minimal sample of the recorded deliberations of informed and unidentified jurors . |
| 20 | The key demands of the 1989 movement were not for democracy or an end to corruption . |
| 21 | The key demands of the 1989 movement were not for democracy or an end to corruption . |
| 22 | The mammoth catalogue raisonné of Magritte 's work would almost certainly not have come into existence if it were not for John ( d. 1973 ) and Dominique de Menil . |
| 23 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 24 | More straightforward were the comments recorded by Leonora Eyles of women in the early 1920s who declared that they would not mind married life so much if it were not for bedtime , or the anecdote related by a birth control pioneer to a 1930 conference on the provision of birth control information by public health authorities : |
| 25 | None of these special Cabinet committees really did anything : it did n't matter a damn that people like Wedgie [ Mr Benn ] and me were not on SEP [ Steering Committee on Economic Policy ] or OPD [ Oversea Policy and Defence ] . |
| 26 | RECORD books will have to be checked to find out when Liverpool Angling Society were not on top of the Wirral Winter League table . |
| 27 | Got home in time to watch the last couple of overs on the television , but then discovered that the highlights were not on TV until 1am . |
| 28 | Their rates of pay were normally 3/ to 3/6 a day when they were not on piece work . |
| 29 | As it was a weekend , all the bigger-wig doctors were not on duty but , knowing of Nigel 's condition and that he had only a short time to live , they brought him through . |
| 30 | In this regard it might be added that the permanent garrison included many soldiers who practised trades in the community when they were not on duty , and the smith and storeman were presumably in this category . |