Example sentences of "[was/were] not the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easy to see the same thing happening today ; when the United States troops went to Somalia , earlier this year , their officers had hardly anything to do with the local experts , preferring to stick with their prejudices about the lack of intelligence of those whose skins were not the same colour as their own . |
| 2 | My idea of a nature reserve and what I was actually looking at were not the same thing at all . |
| 3 | And they were n't the least bit frightened . |
| 4 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 5 | With a deficit of 552 and thirteen and a quarter hours left , obviously only the weather was going to save England , so there was not the least justification for the barrage of short balls that Holding and Roberts hurled at Edrich and Close . |
| 6 | For those officials who remembered Harold Mark I in 1964 , he was not the same man ten years later . |
| 7 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |
| 8 | Sadly in his last years Markevitch was not the same man . |
| 9 | He never dreamt that we would go to witness the execution or , even if we did , would get close enough to realise the man being burnt at the stake was not the same person we 'd questioned at Newgate . |
| 10 | However serious the immediate crisis in 1958 might have been , it was not the same kind of international and societal breakdown that had taken place in 1940 . |
| 11 | To his surprise , he discovered that what was needed to make a powerful political speech was not the same gift as that which was needed to make a powerful sermon . |
| 12 | In some ways this was easier in France where there was not the same interest in accents or parentage . |
| 13 | It was explained to the women 's meeting which took this decision that " times had changed since the inauguration , that the cost of travel made meetings now almost impossible and that with the formation of local branches of the BDDA there was not the same need for the Auxiliary " . |
| 14 | On African issues he was more willing to listen to British views , helped by the fact that there was not the same fear of imminent communist penetration , nor were American interests so pressing . |
| 15 | In cities wherein only a handful of Jews lived , such as Edinburgh , Dundee or Perth , or in towns like Paisley or Kilmarnock , there was not the same atmosphere or vibrancy , excitement or interest . |
| 16 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 17 | So far he 'd got sympathetic countries to ‘ deplore ’ the malai act of aggression , which was not the same thing as condemning it , he said . |
| 18 | It was mentioned in this section that the staff had a commitment to combat racism in any manifestation but it was acknowledged that this was not the same thing as multicultural education . |
| 19 | As Geoffrey Holmes has suggested , the demographic and economic underpinnings of stability were emerging in the second half of the seventeenth century — a stagnant population , years of agricul-tural plenty and a more buoyant economy meant that there was not the same pressure on resources and scarcity of food and employment which had caused such social distress and serious unrest in the late-Elizabethan and early-Stuart period . |
| 20 | She giggled suddenly and took another swig from the bottle , carelessly wiping away the champagne that trickled down the sides of her mouth with the back of her hand , in a gesture that proved to this man she was n't the least bit impressed or intimidated by his overbearing attitude . |
| 21 | like this I was n't the least bit even not tired or anything . |
| 22 | I 'm sure that was n't the same wording |
| 23 | But after nationalization , it was obvious , when he did put in an appearance or and that was very rare , there was n't the same palaver for his visit . |
| 24 | It was n't the same voice . |
| 25 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 26 | It was n't the same story but it was a story about seals . |
| 27 | He was n't the same chap , I 'll tell you that . |
| 28 | But he was n't the same chap . ’ |
| 29 | Because there was n't the same amount of work , this is just after the war I 'm talking about , and there was n't so many going then . |
| 30 | The parties went on at lartington Hall but it was n't the same place after the death of Mr Field . |