Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Greaves [ 1987 ] The Times , 11 July , it was held that it was a question for the jury whether a gap of 17 days between burglary and handling meant that the accused was not the burglar and so could be convicted of handling . |
| 2 | It was found that the swelling was not a tumour but an aneurysma large swelling of a blood vessel . |
| 3 | But what was afoot was not an encounter between natural forces , or even animals , but people . |
| 4 | Another example is the West London Institute of Higher Education formed out of two former colleges of education , Borough Road and Maria Grey , and Chiswick Polytechnic , which to make confusion more confounded was not a polytechnic as we would understand it but , in effect , a college of technology . |
| 5 | ( Remember a penny then was not a penny now — there were 240 of them to £1 ! ) |
| 6 | My becoming homeless was not a result of my dropping out of a system which probably would have supported me until retirement age ; it was the result of a chain of events which took place much , much later . |
| 7 | In his summing up the judge said that the co-defendant 's plea of guilty was not the issue and the jury knew of it to make the background accurate . |
| 8 | Lutyens had been struck by the emphasis she had placed on the word — and on her choice of it ; chaste was not a word Miss Jekyll usually employed when planning her gardens , and Lutyens bore it in mind throughout — hence the austerity to which he adhered on the terraces . |