Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rarely smiled but this was not through a lack of good nature : her responsibilities had given her a serious expression . |
| 2 | But of his courage , though it was not of a kind that Hotspur admired , there could be little doubt ; and of his ability and calculating detachment , none . |
| 3 | Such was his reputation that 2,000 people attended his funeral in Russia and one of the first statues in St Paul 's Cathedral in London was not of a sovereign , statesman or saint — but a simple , teetotal , vegetarian traveller who , as the inscription notes : |
| 4 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 5 | Marriage to Leahy had had its ups and downs , of course ; but Joan was not of a nature to play anybody false . |
| 6 | The income of Henry Tudor was perhaps three times that of Henry VI in 1433 , but it was not of an order of magnitude greatly different from that of the richer medieval kings . |
| 7 | One horse had detached itself and ambled towards the line of protesters but it was not for a moment that Meredith realised , with a pang of dismay , that it was Blazer carrying Harriet . |
| 8 | He hoped Barbara could read the sub-text here : that if she was offering him some kind of invitation — and he was not for a moment suggesting that he was worthy of such a thing if she were — then he was regretfully declining it , on the understanding that both of them knew why . |
| 9 | She agreed to avoid alcohol , and because the next session was not for a week , to telephone the therapist in 3 days time to inform him of her progress . |
| 10 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 11 | I knew it was not on a gramophone ; someone was playing it . |
| 12 | After all , his impulsive invitation — made largely , she guessed , so that Faye and Bill could be alone for the evening to talk over the difficult issues of the amniocentesis — was not on a par with his dates with Marise or Paula . |
| 13 | The moment I saw the church , although there were considerable differences — the main and obvious one being it was not on a hill — I accepted it as my church . |
| 14 | I was not on an errand , if that 's what you mean . ’ |
| 15 | In this labyrinth the Friar was not at a loss but strode on purposefully . |
| 16 | On this measure , in average terms , Britain was not at a disadvantage after 1967 since exchange rate adjustments compensated for higher costs [ National Institute , 1972 ] . |
| 17 | Systematic strike breaking in Britain was not at an end . |
| 18 | However Derek Hyde 's vision of the tramway was not as a museum line , but as a forward-looking system of transportation in the field of light rail , the virtues of which were again being recognised . |
| 19 | The fact that he could get such good results by orthodox bowling also left one wondering why he occasionally indulged in a bouncer war , for it obviously did his reputation no good and was not as a rule very productive . |
| 20 | Even at the beginning of 1934 the anti-Semitism of the British Union of Fascists was not as a rule overt . |
| 21 | The significance of this epic was not as a record of the past , but rather as a means of ensuring the theologico-political supremacy of Marduk in the present . |
| 22 | That man is Alfred Common , who retired to the town in 1919 after a glittering soccer career that was not without a hint of scandal . |
| 23 | IT was not without a frisson of excitement that Ridley Scott 's Oscar nomination was greeted in the NorthEast . |
| 24 | The prohibitions in the CSA 1985 are rendered ineffective where the defendant can show that , notwithstanding the fact that he fulfilled all the conditions mentioned in ss.1 and 2 CSA 1985 , the dominant purpose of his trade was not with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss for either himself or another person . |
| 25 | She was under a duty to use the money to pay the gas bills ( cf. Hall , where the accused was not under a duty to use that money for that holiday ) . |
| 26 | The court held on the facts that the vendor 's agent was not under a duty of confidence ( Trees Ltd v Cripps ( 1983 ) 267 EG 596 ) . |
| 27 | In contrast , the secular clerk , the clergyman who was not under a rule or monastic discipline , was often an inveterate wanderer . |
| 28 | The Supreme Court held , overturning the lower court , that Chiarella was not under an obligation to disclose his information or abstain from trading . |
| 29 | The prototype of this idea was not unlike a tower crane . |
| 30 | The way he gained ‘ the word that sustains the weary ’ was not like a bolt from the blue , but through patiently listening to God morning by morning . |