Example sentences of "was [not/n't] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first letter I opened was not a sympathy card but a £40 bill from Warwickshire ambulance service for the use of two of its vehicles . |
| 2 | It was not a husband/wife case . |
| 3 | It was not a question Dalgliesh would have expected , even from a friend , and Rickards was not a friend . |
| 4 | Among the great powers of 1880 , only Great Britain was not a land power ; armies were more important than navies to continental countries . |
| 5 | Jim was keen to impress that it was not a scale model of anything but a real small narrow gauge locomotive in its own right . |
| 6 | Though there was never-ceasing change , each movement was not a chance occurrence in a hotch-potch of bewildered uncertainty , but part and parcel of a pre-conceived plan , trimmed down or adorned to suit the particular circumstances of the moment … |
| 7 | It was not a kinship group in any biological sense . |
| 8 | He was not a music lover , nor was he particularly attracted by any cultural activity . |
| 9 | But he was not a field nigger , he was a house slave . |
| 10 | But he made clear it was not a sacking offence and he regarded the matter as closed . |
| 11 | He says music was not a performing art : it was connected to everyday events , to births and deaths , a new house , or a departure . |
| 12 | If the voting was equal , then there was not a majority vote to the effect that a ground of refusal as provided by 5.17 had been established , and so the application had to be granted . |
| 13 | The Fun Minister said his affair with actress Antonia de Sancha was not a resignation issue . |
| 14 | Earlier , Lord Annan , a former chairman of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting , said on BBC radio that the affair was not a resignation matter for the chairman . |
| 15 | It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish . |
| 16 | ‘ She was not a village woman , then ? ’ |
| 17 | It is , of course , history that what happened was not a crash programme of chauffeur training , but the lateral thought of do-it-yourself driving — the owner driver with the cheaper and more simple car such as the Model T. |
| 18 | It is relevant that these districts are large , in some cases similar to old counties , and that rural areas contained negligible numbers of oil workers in 1971 when the energy industry was not a census category . |
| 19 | But for her , Mary was a Guise ; and a Guise was not a court butterfly . |
| 20 | It was not a heart-and-soul confession but an admission of guilt . |
| 21 | There was not a man present who had not stepped over bodies of rivals to claw his way to his present position . |
| 22 | Unlike the Homicide Act seven years earlier , the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Bill of 1964 , introduced by the indefatigable Sydney Silverman once again , was not a Government Bill backed by the Government Whips . |
| 23 | At the launch of the document , Guidance on Possible Forms of Control in Residential Care , Tim Yeo , junior health minister , explained it was not a reference manual giving explicit directions for care workers . |
| 24 | This we read with great interest , but at the time my husband merely made enquiries about leaving his body for medical research and was told there was not a teaching hospital near enough to accept him . |
| 25 | a subject specialist with industrial or professional expertise , who was not a panel member , would prepare detailed comments on the documentation for circulation to panel members and the course team prior to the validation event . |
| 26 | He was not a country man himself , and I think must have suffered torments of loneliness and boredom . |
| 27 | Curtseying was not a country custom , and besides , even had they been in town , she was n't sure she should to one of her brother 's friends , whom she 'd known since he was a boy . |
| 28 | ‘ It was not a home town decision — the ref just made a mistake . ’ |
| 29 | The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom , and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen 's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef … |
| 30 | Two-thirds of a total of 324 companies interviewed said that the environment was not a trading issue last year , and 59 per cent agreed that it would not become one in the forthcoming year . |