Example sentences of "[was/were] not [Wh det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Summers conceded : ‘ His style of play at times was not what the fans wanted . ’ |
| 2 | By their diligent eating of carcases they had probably spared the garrison an epidemic or a pestilence , but that was not what the Collector liked about them … though clumsy on the ground , their flight was extraordinarily graceful . |
| 3 | This was not what the president promised . |
| 4 | Parliament decided that this was not what the parties to arbitration agreements either expected or wanted and abolished the case stated procedure by s1(1) of the Arbitration Act 1979 : see further 15.8.3 . |
| 5 | This , however , was not what the Security Council had charged them to do and their attention was focused on the liberation of Kuwait . |
| 6 | They would first have inspected judicial practice to see whether almost all other judges were agreed either that the words of a statute must be given their " literal " meaning , even when that was not what the legislators intended , or the opposite , that the words must not be given their literal meaning in these circumstances . |
| 7 | Legislation has shifted more and more into the federal domain , which was not what the authors of the constitution intended . |