Example sentences of "and was [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 2 | But he said he was researching a television documentary on animal cruelty and was not a member of the ALF . |
| 3 | It first appeared in England in April 1852 and was not a success despite good reviews in trade journals . |
| 4 | We just needed to make sure the place existed and was not a dream . |
| 5 | When Miss Temple received a letter from Dr Lloyd , agreeing that what I had said was true , she told the whole school that I had been wrongly accused and was not a liar . |
| 6 | The transaction effected by the transfer was , whatever the transfer may have said , a transfer for no , or if the £1,800 is taken into account a derisory , consideration and was not a sale . |
| 7 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 8 | The car had the usual teething problems and was not the equal of either the Lotus or the Ferrari , and Jackie 's only victory of the year was at Barcelona . |
| 9 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |
| 10 | As a result he did a French translation of The Happy Hypocrite which was published in 1904 by the Mercure de France , illustrated with a caricature of Boulestin by Max ( Boulestin had some difficulty in convincing the Mercure 's editor that Max Beerbohm actually existed and was not an invention of his own ) . |
| 11 | Its success depended upon a major economic reform and was not an alternative to one . |
| 12 | Lawton suspected nothing , merely practised caution because it was trained into him and was not an instinct . |
| 13 | It stuck to the facts and was n't a weepy . ’ |
| 14 | And that 's not from a Conservative , that 's from the present Chairman of C N D , and was n't a spectacle that was last week . |
| 15 | She 'd collected her wedding dress , and it was n't what she wanted ; it did n't fit properly , and the woman in Drogheda who had made it had gone away on holiday , and her assistant did n't know anything about it , and was n't a seamstress , so now what the hell was she supposed to do ? |
| 16 | And Mrs McMahon , who naturally had n't seen it because had n't she just this minute arrived back from the village and was n't the dress still in its bag , looked up at the three hovering on the stairs as though it were a divine deliverance , mumbled vaguely about a headache coming on , and thankfully abandoned her responsibilities to whoever was willing to take them on . |
| 17 | And was n't the leadership contest hastily arranged precisely so that a new shadow cabinet could be harrying the Conservatives throughout the summer ? |
| 18 | How could healing from a priest when I had no faith be of any assistance , and was n't the whole of that phoney world perfectly epitomized by the belief that the wanderings of an old man in the Oxfordshire lanes in the 1930s , seeking the energies of various plants , could possibly be relevant to a most dreaded disease ? |
| 19 | The cause of death will now be established by a home office pathologist : Friends of the dead woman say she doted on her two young children and was n't the sort of person to have contemplated suicide — the pathologist 's report will show whether or not that turns out to be true . |