Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [was/were] [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sixties my heroines were not Bardot or Monroe or Vivien Leigh , but Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies . |
| 2 | Sampdoria coach Sven-Goran Eriksson tried to diffuse the ill-feeling by saying : ‘ There were several situations involving Batty but my players were n't angels either . |
| 3 | The appellants submitted that reimbursement of their outlays was not part of the consideration for their services , but the court did not accept that argument . |
| 4 | Her parents were not Parisians , they came from the provinces and Jeanne herself combined innocence with imaginative courage . |
| 5 | Their stories were n't ones of passive pain , but tales of active resistance — having somewhere to run to , they 'd got a grip of their own lives . |
| 6 | Marian already felt her captors were not strangers to her . |
| 7 | His lips were not steel , but silk . |
| 8 | Howard was a revelation to me because his parents were n't intellectuals like the parents of all the other children I knew . |
| 9 | If his targets were n't killers , he 'd send guns . |
| 10 | Chapman insisted that his players were not slaves to a system , but merely followed the ‘ fundamental principles of teamwork ’ . |
| 11 | That was just as well as our engineers were not professionals by any means , although they always coped very well and our engines gave very little trouble . |
| 12 | The people here thought that if your wrists were n't tennis racket handle-width on your sixth birthday then you were called a ‘ fat ’ and transferred into the ‘ right ’ . |