Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] not [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books were not possessions to be accumulated and , in this town without a library , reading really meant newspapers and magazines . |
| 2 | Marian already felt her captors were not strangers to her . |
| 3 | Chapman insisted that his players were not slaves to a system , but merely followed the ‘ fundamental principles of teamwork ’ . |
| 4 | Most , however , felt that such practices were not topics to be made available for public scrutiny . |
| 5 | Although these facts were not matters to which any great weight could be attached , they were relevant . |
| 6 | In theory , the US prudential rules prevented banks from lending more than 15 ( later 10 ) per cent of their capital to any one borrower , But in practice these rules were not properly enforced , allowing banks to ‘ pretend ’ that loans to state-owned enterprises were not loans to a ‘ country ’ . |