Example sentences of "[pron] was not [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition .
2 I struggled up to show I was n't wolf meat .
3 I was n't chewing gum though , I was eating sweets
4 That 's not to say there was n't child abuse now , I I have my own thoughts and in my own feelings feel that there could have been some child abuse especially ch sexual abuse .
5 My gran had forgotten about coming over , you know and so we rem , reminded her was n't Christmas eve , the day before Christmas eve , tha you know , to see if she was still coming .
6 It was n't prawn cocktail .
7 It was n't brandy bravado that spoke .
8 I think can I just say one thing we did actually h it was n't community industry erm the people that did it I do n't know
9 The fact that nobody wrote and said that he was brilliant and was a genius convinced him that it was n't Robert Bolt who was at fault or the director Noel Willman , but himself as an actor .
10 Well , so , no it was n't Saturday night then .
11 " No lass , you 're wrong , it was n't class hatred , it was class love . "
12 But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary .
13 It was n't Lloyds fault , it was just that they were complying with the original P E P regulations about reporting and , and er so on , so they had to charge more .
14 She was taken to a small Gestapo prison near the Bastille , and thanked her lucky stars it was n't Gestapo HQ on the Avenue Foch .
15 It was n't rain forest , but neither was it an English oak wood .
16 It was n't catwalk modelling , it was a private showing ; all she had to do was stroll through the small showroom , mount a carpeted platform faced with mirrors , look elegant and disinterested while the sheikh 's wives made their selections .
17 Two packets of Cuppa Soup , but I 'm not sure that it was n't Cuppa Soup , cos I 've said to Thomas , I 'm not at the moment .
18 No it was n't Stock Exchange !
19 It was not girl trouble , the others said .
20 It was not Sussex backwardness alone that brought trouble but the collapse of the artificial prosperity across England when the wars ended in 1815 and were followed by a series of disastrous harvests .
21 It was not fairy gold that had fallen into their open laps : the first Mrs Headleand , it was true , had conveniently died , but Charles and Liz thereafter had worked for their position .
22 It was I remember reading in the paper that it 's been it 's been filmed at a house which no one 's ever been allowed to go in even the great sort of one of these country mansions , it was not Bradley Hall
23 If it was not Bradley Hall , it ca n't be Bradley Hall again , they 're always going in there !
24 Our manager replied that it was not company policy to divulge personal details of employees ( mad joggers or not ! ) and that if she wanted to take it further , she should write in .
25 Mr Schabort said : ‘ At first they seemed quite eager but then I received a letter saying it was not council policy to meet with South African officials .
26 It was held that it was not copra cake at all but a substance quite different to that contracted for and , because of this , the sellers could not rely on an exclusion clause purporting to exempt them from liability .
27 ‘ The opinion was also expressed that it was not party policy to come out and support candidates during local elections .
28 It was not Nobel prize material , just a slick method of protein analysis , which many other experimenters had found immediately useful .
29 But it was not Resenence Jeopardy who danced .
30 However , a spokesman said it was not police policy to discuss the occupation of people helping with inquiries .
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