Example sentences of "[was/were] not [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 2 | All the work which had so far been done received very little recognition , because CCs were not on offer to the breed in this country . |
| 3 | The words were not like music to Doreen 's ears . |
| 4 | But the American press , used to seeing horses flat out from the start and going at it hammer and tongs , were not in tune to the subtleties of Piggott 's unleashing that burst , and the criticism started . |
| 5 | A GRE spokesman said the changes were not in reaction to the losses incurred over the past three years , as the life business had remained profitable . |
| 6 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 7 | It was not without significance to the WEA ( and presumably of similar importance to the Cambridge Board and its secretary , G. F. Hickson ) that the Eastern District already had thirteen of its twenty-five Tutorial Classes in that county : several reflecting the combined efforts of Miss Green and Helen Stocks . |
| 8 | The tenancy was not from year to year but for a term which would continue until Matlodge certified that it was ready to proceed with the development of the property . |
| 9 | It was n't like Dana to be out before noon . |