Example sentences of "[adj] was not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goodness , this was n't a menu , it was a volume . |
| 2 | This was n't a passage , it was a wide room with walls to a number that Rincewind did n't dare to contemplate , and ei- and 7a passages radiating from it . |
| 3 | She cleaned as never before , with care and interest ( this was n't a chore now ) , getting on to her knees with a scrubbing brush and bowl of water , behind cupboards and along skirting boards . |
| 4 | This was n't a unit at all , only seemed like one , and Alice sat inwardly separated , thinking that Pat probably felt the same . |
| 5 | ‘ Gradually he got to drinking with his Bohemian friends , ’ she said , ‘ and soon this was n't a home . |
| 6 | It was the only indication , apart from the price of the beer , that this was n't a decade ago . |
| 7 | I must say this was n't a problem for anyone here and I would hope that moving the string ferrule does n't affect the brightness or jangle factor overmuch . |
| 8 | Before people started to need calendars this was n't a problem . |
| 9 | This was n't a reflection of his feelings about me , I knew that , and when pressed he would only say that the most resounding impression she gave was of her innate class . |
| 10 | What looks like a fairly minor scrape would cost me the best part of a planned skiing trip at Christmas to repair if this was n't a company car . |
| 11 | This was n't a restaurant he could afford to eat in and he was enjoying himself . |
| 12 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 13 | This was n't a tea-dance with cups of tea and staid sandwiches : it was a slick nightclub where the waiters and the band flirted like gigolos . |
| 14 | This was n't a game . |
| 15 | Since he was the majority shareholder , this would have meant his family getting hold of the business — and much as we liked them , this was n't a prospect we exactly relished . |
| 16 | This was n't a search at all . |
| 17 | This was n't a bunch of Hooray Henrys with more money than sense . |
| 18 | Still , this was n't a fellow to give up easily . |
| 19 | This was n't an answer that a fifteen-year-old girl would give , it was a woman 's reply . |
| 20 | This was n't the type of conversation she particularly enjoyed . |
| 21 | but but possibly this was n't the majority case . |
| 22 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
| 23 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 24 | InteCalc claims that pressing the right arrow key will scroll through the currently available files but this was n't the case on my sample . |
| 25 | But erm er so I thought that was er so that was the only thing that I would actually pick up on there erm and the one thing I noticed this time , and you did n't , I mean this was n't the case when you did erm the role play this morning , but this time , and I do n't know whether it was because you had less confidence with what , with actual talking about the product , but you had very little eye contact with Maggie . |
| 26 | And this was n't the hotel or anything . |
| 27 | This was n't the hotel , the hotel was very posh yes . |
| 28 | On another day , they might have scored a handful but this was n't the night . |
| 29 | This was n't the love and peace of 1967 , this was something else . |
| 30 | This was no reincarnation of some centuries-gone swashbuckling master-mariner , but even so — surely this was n't the man she 'd agreed to work with for the next few weeks ? |