Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A man would have to supply some sort of evidence that he was not a slave to the State , a spy of the KGB . |
| 2 | For this was not a treatment to be found in Gray 's Anatomy . |
| 3 | There was not a weakness to be seen and no-one at the game would back against them ending a 26-year wait for the Championship . |
| 4 | Winnie and Rab , whatever else : the sloshing wine , they kicked and whooped the party , it was not a night to be forgotten . |
| 5 | There was some truth in the Don Quixote jibe , but de Gaulle was no Rip Van Winkle : his multipolar system was not a return to the past but an updated , global version of the nineteenth-century European system . |
| 6 | However necessary a trip to Australia began to seem , it was not a voyage to be undertaken lightly . |
| 7 | But Mr Riley argued that the parking on Hollyhurst Road was not a hazard to pedestrians who had to cross between parked cars instead they slowed down the speeding cars . |
| 8 | The style in which he lived in Passy was not a style to which he had always been accustomed . |
| 9 | But 1939 was not a year to be starting any scholarly project . |
| 10 | He was not a man to be taunted into action ; his function was to eject troublemakers . |
| 11 | Georgi Kirov was not a man to be overtly optimistic . |
| 12 | Buxton was not a man to be deterred by the shipowners ' protestations that the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was not only unrepresentative of seamen but would fail " to command support in the event of a decision of a conciliation board which did not secure the immediate approval of the persons affected " . |
| 13 | He was not a man to whom gracious speech came easily and his cheeks , roughened and weathered by years of riding on the open moor , twitched as he sought for words . |
| 14 | Dismissing a charge under section 14 , the court held that since section 14 did not deal with a sale of goods , a reference to a shop sale was not a reference to a ‘ facility ’ within the meaning of section 14 . |
| 15 | It was not a call to workaholism and a sense of achievement , but to an abiding relationship with him . |
| 16 | His request for an adjournment to consider this evidence and to produce scientific evidence that supported the nuns ' claim that the flock was not a threat to human health , was granted by the judges until Tuesday . |
| 17 | It was argued that the sentencer has failed to give weight to the effect on the appellant 's wife and child if he were deported , and that his good behaviour while on bail indicated that he was not a threat to the country if he remained . |
| 18 | This was not a threat to the capitalist class , however , because the leaders of the trade unions and workers parties were normally incorporated into the political system and educated to the imperatives and requirements of capitalism . |
| 19 | The court concluded that this was not a publication to the ‘ public ’ generally , or to a section of the public , even taking into account the fact that the M.P . |
| 20 | The elegant chairs and sofas had gone ; there was not a flower to be seen and , where the gold curtain had been , there was a very ordinary and rather battered door , through which they were taken to Paul de Levantiére 's tiny , chaotic office . |
| 21 | A Boeing spokesman , Craig Martin , said that finding an equity partner for the 777 project was not a prerequisite to launching the new plane , and that the company might fund development costs from its own cash resources . |
| 22 | But this was not a reversion to the pattern and processes of concentration typical of the 1950s . |
| 23 | There must be many in London society so rich that her inheritance was not a temptation to them ; it could not be made up only of rogues and fortune-hunters . |
| 24 | After another couple of hair-raising bends , they entered the tiny village of Ham , where there was not a light to be seen . |
| 25 | That was the only trouble with wei chi — it was not a game to be played against oneself . |
| 26 | It was not a theory to be come across elsewhere . |
| 27 | Yet , Kochan continues , if it was not a guide to what happened after 1917 , it retains its importance as a dynamic diagnosis of the weakness of Tsarism and the force required to overthrow it . |
| 28 | But it was not a solution to overall levels of unemployment . |
| 29 | It was not a right to be enjoyed as a source of revenue or worldly glory : it was to be guarded as a gift from the past , representing an eternal principle of order . |
| 30 | Somehow this charge generated itself involuntarily ; it was not a reaction to anything with which Jean-Claude provided me . |