Example sentences of "[was/were] not a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 2 | Eisenhower claimed in 1955 that the tests were not a health hazard . |
| 3 | The train from Sao Paulo to the Bolivian border had been clean and comfortable , and the town of Coromba on the Pantanal made you regret you were not a train robber on the run in search of a safe haven . |
| 4 | the Longbridge train , were n't a Longbridge train but |
| 5 | If you were n't a church guy . |
| 6 | The first letter I opened was not a sympathy card but a £40 bill from Warwickshire ambulance service for the use of two of its vehicles . |
| 7 | It was not a husband/wife case . |
| 8 | It was not a question Dalgliesh would have expected , even from a friend , and Rickards was not a friend . |
| 9 | Among the great powers of 1880 , only Great Britain was not a land power ; armies were more important than navies to continental countries . |
| 10 | This was not a Lockerbie operator , that was clear . |
| 11 | Jim was keen to impress that it was not a scale model of anything but a real small narrow gauge locomotive in its own right . |
| 12 | Though there was never-ceasing change , each movement was not a chance occurrence in a hotch-potch of bewildered uncertainty , but part and parcel of a pre-conceived plan , trimmed down or adorned to suit the particular circumstances of the moment … |
| 13 | Again , this was not a PNP initiative but is reported here because it concerned parents , children and schools and gives an example of the practice from which the LEA 's unwritten policy on home-school links has to be inferred . |
| 14 | Although individual schools reported some degree of increased activity in this area , facilitated by extra staff , it was clear that except in certain well-known cases , home-school links was not a PNP priority . |
| 15 | It was not a kinship group in any biological sense . |
| 16 | He was not a music lover , nor was he particularly attracted by any cultural activity . |
| 17 | But he was not a field nigger , he was a house slave . |
| 18 | But he made clear it was not a sacking offence and he regarded the matter as closed . |
| 19 | He says music was not a performing art : it was connected to everyday events , to births and deaths , a new house , or a departure . |
| 20 | If the voting was equal , then there was not a majority vote to the effect that a ground of refusal as provided by 5.17 had been established , and so the application had to be granted . |
| 21 | The Fun Minister said his affair with actress Antonia de Sancha was not a resignation issue . |
| 22 | Earlier , Lord Annan , a former chairman of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting , said on BBC radio that the affair was not a resignation matter for the chairman . |
| 23 | It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish . |
| 24 | ‘ She was not a village woman , then ? ’ |
| 25 | It is , of course , history that what happened was not a crash programme of chauffeur training , but the lateral thought of do-it-yourself driving — the owner driver with the cheaper and more simple car such as the Model T. |
| 26 | It is relevant that these districts are large , in some cases similar to old counties , and that rural areas contained negligible numbers of oil workers in 1971 when the energy industry was not a census category . |
| 27 | But for her , Mary was a Guise ; and a Guise was not a court butterfly . |
| 28 | It was not a heart-and-soul confession but an admission of guilt . |
| 29 | There was not a man present who had not stepped over bodies of rivals to claw his way to his present position . |
| 30 | Unlike the Homicide Act seven years earlier , the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Bill of 1964 , introduced by the indefatigable Sydney Silverman once again , was not a Government Bill backed by the Government Whips . |