Example sentences of "[noun prp] was n't the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt he slept soundly at night — Josh was n't the sort of man to be tormented by bad dreams . |
| 2 | Bracken Cottage , which had come to her on Elise 's death , was all very well , but living out in one of the Sherwood Forest villages would have entailed long rush-hour drives twice a day , and already Merrill had gathered that Luke Travis was n't the sort of man to take kindly to excuses about traffic-jams . |
| 3 | The North Shore was n't the way it used to be . |
| 4 | Graham was n't the sort of editor to get excited easily . |
| 5 | If Alain was n't the problem , what was ? |
| 6 | But Geoffrey was n't the sort to tolerate independent action on the part of his wife . |
| 7 | No , Billy was n't the father . |
| 8 | Luke Calder was n't the kind of man to let anyone thwart his plans and get away with it ! |
| 9 | Francis was n't the sort to make friends and influence people but I ca n't believe that anybody would want to murder him . ’ |
| 10 | Disappointment that Feargal was n't the man she had thought him had been replaced by a sadness for things not to be . |
| 11 | In any case , Dougal was n't the type to run away : someone with his talents had nowhere to run to . |
| 12 | And you know as well as I do Jim was n't the father . |
| 13 | Matt was n't the sort of man to antagonize people . |
| 14 | But if Rick was n't the killer , what did that imply for Barney ? |