Example sentences of "[was/were] not [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think it 's fair to say that the changes in the n nine , early nineteen eighties particularly those which gave the unions a predominant position in choosing the leader , were not of the unions ' making , certainly not of the G M B's making , as I know from personal experience at the time . |
| 2 | The theatre was not something of which her parents would have approved , such frivolous pleasures were not for the likes of hard-working shoemakers . |
| 3 | There was even talk , Frank 's idea , of going to Ireland ( European tours , filling me with excitement at the very thought , were not for the likes of us ) . |
| 4 | ‘ requiring a seat belt ’ Means per regulation 6 of the Motor Vehicles ( wearing of Seat Belts ) Regulation 1982 : ‘ The classes of vehicle mentioned in regulation 4 are ( a ) a vehicle to which Regulation 46 of the Construction and Use Regulations applies ( see later ) ; and ( b ) a vehicle which is equipped with anchorage points and seat belts and to which that Regulation would apply if it were not for the circumstances that the vehicle — |
| 5 | If it were not for the scenes written after his marriage , The Elder Statesman would have been by far the grimmest play he had ever written . |
| 6 | Yet if it were not for the eclipses of May , June and November , Pisceans might think they could get off comparatively lightly . |
| 7 | At least one senior member , who for a time was delegated the task of convening its meetings , considered the panel to have been of little relevance in the first year or so : because the books were not on the shelves , so there was n't a great need for finding ways of stimulating the use of this material . |
| 8 | Would it be surprising if some names were not on the lists ? |
| 9 | Synods were not like the parliaments of liberal democracies . |
| 10 | The Jews hated it but we were not against the Jews . ’ |
| 11 | By contrast , if the forged words were not in the documents , he could with pardonable exaggeration use the words ultimum quasi robur . |
| 12 | In both cases their parents took decisions for them which , in my view , were not in the boys ' best interests . |
| 13 | When it was announced that the orders were to be considered this week , the instruments were not in the hands of our clerk and our counsel . |
| 14 | But the problems were not in the backs . |
| 15 | The case arose after Jeffrey M. Masson , a psychoanalyst , attempted to sue a journalist , Janet Malcolm , for writing an article about him which included several quotations which were not among the transcripts of the tape-recorded interviews which she had conducted with him . |
| 16 | The USA and the United Kingdom were not among the signatories . |
| 17 | Barrow is also having talks about resigning Neil Morton and Dave Thompson , who were not among the names on City 's retained list . |
| 18 | But all to no avail , the manufacturers were not among the sponsors . |
| 19 | Lands disafforested during the reign of the usurper Stephen and subsequently reclaimed by Henry II were not within the terms of the Charter of the Forest . |
| 20 | It was not to the Israelites in the ancient world , as they recited Psalm 128 . |
| 21 | Even here , as the fact of policing came to be established , opposition was not to the police per se , but to specific operations or tactics . |
| 22 | And this was not on the women 's pages of the Daily Mail , but an article written by a woman on the Law page of the Guardian . |
| 23 | In Dekker the employer had tried to argue that the refusal to hire was not on the grounds of pregnancy but on the ground of adverse financial consequences the firm could not pay for a replacement during the period of maternity leave needed by Ms Dekker and as a result the firm would be short-staffed . |
| 24 | Slaven said after the game : ‘ I could not believe I was not on the substitutes ’ bench . ’ |
| 25 | Captain Tupper , calling off a strike of fishermen in which he was engaged in August 1914 declared simply that " our fight was not with the employers but with another force which had attacked all that was ours " . |
| 26 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 27 | At one stage of the argument Mr. Browne suggested that the investigation here was not under the provisions of section 85 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , the analogue of section 49 of the Act of 1964 , but rather under section 88 . |
| 28 | It was not like the movies : there was no second punch |
| 29 | He was not like the saints you read about who had been parish priests . |
| 30 | When the challenge to the court came , it was not from the heirs of the rebels or from the discontented northerners , but from the queen . |