Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not Hugh 's face but that of Fenton Marshall . |
| 2 | But such spite was not Osvaldo 's legacy . |
| 3 | She reminded herself that it was not Paul 's fault ; and yet , somehow , he should have been able to shield her from this kind of outrage . |
| 4 | She sat in the flat in the silence that was not Ruth 's silence . |
| 5 | It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger . |
| 6 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , John Wilkins was to say that a prevalent objection to the Copernican system was not man 's dethronement but an elevation above his true station . |
| 8 | A dash of wry cynicism might have helped another woman , but that was not Franca 's way . |
| 9 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 10 | His name was not Albert McKillop and he was not Elsie 's brother . |
| 11 | It was not Srikkanth 's day : he recovered to open the Indian reply , but was unhappy at being given out caught behind off McDermott ( Healy 's 100th Test catch ) , indicating that the ball hit his forearm . |
| 12 | That was not boy 's cake ! |
| 13 | It was not Virgin 's responsibility , but from Chemical 's headquarters in New York , the instruction went out to terminate a number of existing contracts negotiated by the London office — Virgin 's among them . |
| 14 | It was not Temple 's oratory which persuaded him , for he thought it ‘ rather rotund ’ . |
| 15 | And in God 's plan at this particular moment i this was not Philip 's function , it was n't his job . |
| 16 | He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience . |
| 17 | Simon knew that live music was not Yorick 's forte , but he could hardly go wrong before a small and carefully chosen audience , especially if the bar prices were heavily subsidized : drinks were free for anyone equipped with a press card . |
| 18 | It was not Gandhi 's intention when he originally decided to fast to exert moral coercion on the mill-owners , since coercion in any form was contrary to the aims of satyāgraha , yet despite the unexpected result of his fast Gandhi still felt that he had acted correctly in the circumstances.m The experience did not prevent him either from using fasts as a form of satyāgraha on other occasions with similar results . |
| 19 | Now , coiled here , she thought it was not Phoebe 's fault , it was the dullness of being an adult ; it was the natural flavour of the world once one had said goodbye to childhood . |
| 20 | This was not Phoebe 's place and she knew quite simply that tomorrow morning she would go to see her own GP and organize the necessary hospital visit . |
| 21 | The King , ’ she added thoughtfully , almost to herself , ‘ could have forced her but that was not Alexander 's way . |
| 22 | True , I was not Rowse 's student : but I had met him chiefly through Eliot 's introduction , and he had been civil enough , and even , despite marked differences of viewpoint , encouraging . |
| 23 | This , of course , was not Basil 's intention , and was , like the distortions of Basic Design , due more to an unimaginative application of ideas rather than something intrinsically wrong in the idea itself . |
| 24 | Feathers , who was not Harry 's father , told the court he threw the baby on the bed because he would not stop crying . |
| 25 | The suggestion ( impossible to prove ) that Hilary was not Gerald 's son but Walter 's . |
| 26 | True , she was not Warren 's courtesan , but what of Benedict ? |
| 27 | It was not Dubroca 's fault that the story gathered momentum and became a headline in the English-speaking media for nearly two weeks while the World Cup bandwagon was still rolling on . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , he had much support , especially north of the Thames and among the troops in London , and suggestions that he was not Cnut 's son are likely to be false . |
| 29 | Ironically , the focal point of the story 's humorous elements , comedian Derek Francis as Nero , was not Spooner 's idea : Nero having died in his early thirties according to research . |
| 30 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |