Example sentences of "[was/were] not the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew you were n't the composing machine they say you are . ’ |
| 3 | This was not the operations room of a naval warship or a secret room in the White House but my modest office above a restaurant in north London . |
| 4 | Primogeniture was not the inheritance system used by the bargemen for the successful bargemaster could provide openings for all his sons . |
| 5 | What flew forth from the shattered bottle was not the ghost memory of a child , but something else . |
| 6 | In the United States it was not the £75,000 cheque but the $64,000 Question , the top prize in a double-your-money television quiz , that dominated people 's fantasies . |
| 7 | But one fact was wrong : Kate Stone was not the supervising driver in the accident ; Claire Powell was . |
| 8 | It was not the overlap timing in general , but the timing of resource commitment that distinguished Japanese from US projects . |
| 9 | It was not the marriage Rose would have chosen for herself , now . |
| 10 | The Salvadorean Feminine Front pursues much the same line with vitriolic attacks on the United States and the armed forces for imposing a provisional president ( Alvaro Magana ) after the March 1982 elections , who was not the ARENA candidate . |
| 11 | The North East of the 1950s and early 1960s was not the North East of 1914 , not least in terms of domestic arrangements , demography and completed family sizes . |
| 12 | This was not the berserker bravery of the Chaos Hordes ; this incredible tenacity was allied to tactical cunning and consummate military skill . |
| 13 | I noticed this with distaste , and rejoiced that it was not the asparagus season . |
| 14 | He knew the name of the Mayor , and he knew why Battersby was not the be.at Grammar School . |
| 15 | Of the great settlement in the European tradition since the Congress of Vienna , only the Congress of Berlin , which effectively finalised the allocation of the world 's population to the jurisdiction of a ‘ modern ’ state , was not the end product of a ruinous war . |
| 16 | It is an interesting fact that the fastest-growing public expenditure programme under the Labour Government was not the health service , education or social services , but debt interest . |
| 17 | But , as Mr Malik kept reminding him , this was not the target audience of the school . |
| 18 | And it was not the five-year-old image of a man that she loved , but the man he was now . |
| 19 | But the servant , though receiving wages , and therefore a domestic analogue to the worker whose employment defined the male bourgeois in the economy , was essentially quite different , since her ( or more rarely his ) main link with the employer was not the cash nexus , but personal , and indeed for practical purposes total , dependence . |
| 20 | ’ It was not the Communion Service , it was the Catechism . |
| 21 | There was no doubt that Grunte was altogether too much of a bad thing , but it was not the Party Chairman 's task to get rid of him . |
| 22 | But what Jesus was referring to was not the material kingdom , but the spiritual kingdom . |
| 23 | The LEA , which had an equal opportunities policy for its education service , was not the admissions authority . |
| 24 | For it was not the Police Choir that sang but seven-year-old Maria O'Neil . |
| 25 | It may not have strengthened the ‘ latifundium ’ as such — the term is ambiguous and deeply encrusted in political mythology but whoever it strengthened , it was not the subsistence peasant , old or new , the marginal villager who depended on the common lands and , in regions subject to deforestation and erosion , the land itself , no longer protected by communal control of its use . |
| 26 | THIS WAS NOT THE FAREWELL appearance Nigel Mansell had wanted . |
| 27 | It was not the boat aspect of his idea , rowing boats are permitted on the lake , but some of the club members are saying echo sounders are unsporting . |
| 28 | All I am hoping is that it was n't the boy friend you 're meeting tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 29 | It was n't the way party dialogues were supposed to go . |
| 30 | He was he was n't the colour sergeant |