Example sentences of "[was/were] not a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 2 | They were not a subdivision of Judaism , propounding one or another theological position . |
| 3 | It was particularly offensive to hear the Secretary of State talking about price increases in the gas industry before privatisation , as though he were not a member of a party and Government who decreed that gas prices had to rise arbitrarily , unilaterally and unnecessarily by 10 per cent . |
| 4 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 5 | To take on these powerful vested interests , so the argument runs , the reformers needed the support of rulers and bishops ( if bishops themselves were not a part of the local familial nexus ) , and rulers at the same time gained an opportunity to reduce the power of local aristocracies . |
| 6 | Domestic pets were not a part of Irish life ; animals were worked , not cosseted . |
| 7 | I 'm glad to say that in the Navy such luxuries were not a part of our conditions of service , and when I was ordered back to Germany in 1949 I had no option but to return . |
| 8 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |
| 9 | The general form relied on the argument that the riots were not a form of protest against the insufferable social conditions of inner-city areas or the actions of the police , but a ‘ criminal act ’ or a ‘ cry for loot ’ . |
| 10 | So all their efforts to create helium from hydrogen hat been fruitless ; the traces of helium that they saw had been absorbed from the environment and were not a product of fusion . |
| 11 | It would seem in this case that her unusual behaviour patterns and impaired development were not a product of personal inadequacy , but were due to her restricted early experiences and minimal human contact . |
| 12 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 13 | They proposed that these anomalies , which seemed to be arranged symmetrically on either side of , and roughly parallel with , the ridge crest , were not a result of variations in the intensity of magnetization , as earlier suggested , but rather a consequence of the direction of magnetization . |
| 14 | We were n't a part of it and the whole affair disgusted me . |
| 15 | In fact , all the shows that played there were amazing although we did two or three shows in America where there were n't a lot of people . |
| 16 | But the average pay was still below the police plus there was job security — there were n't a lot of jobs paying pensions then . |
| 17 | Buckingham Palace were n't a lot of help in the matter yesterday . |
| 18 | There were n't a lot of bleach in it . |
| 19 | There were n't a lot of room but you do n't care do you ? |
| 20 | Were n't a lot of choice was there ? |
| 21 | I wanted to say that it was not a question of ‘ letting ’ Aunt Louise do anything ; I wanted to say I should like to see anyone trying to stop her from doing anything she had set her heart on . |
| 22 | It was not a question of committing himself . |
| 23 | He found that ‘ language , in short , was not a question of sounds only — it was a whole complex of verbal and non-verbal communication , some of it highly individual and dependent on familiarity for its comprehension . |
| 24 | This was not a question of either niceness or laziness . |
| 25 | This time it was not a question of skirmishing along the border , but of a major re-occupation of territory lost since 1183 . |
| 26 | It was not a question of the right the child had after conception , but of the right to compensation which commenced when she was born . |
| 27 | Twenty-four hours later he admonished Babs for over-stressing the little-girl aspect of Cleopatra , pointing out that childishness of character was not a question of years and that she was mistaken if she supposed the difference between folly and wisdom had anything to do with either age or youth . |
| 28 | ‘ It was not a question of coming between Malcolm and John , ’ says Draper . |
| 29 | It was not a question of implying a term but giving the proper construction to the relevant word . |
| 30 | Mr Major attacked Labour again in Commons questions for ‘ talking Britain down ’ , prompting Mr Smith later to suggest that it was not a question of who is talking the country down , but pulling it down . |