Example sentences of "was not a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | God was not a word in a book or a gigantic figure in the sky . |
| 2 | Privacy was not a word in our vocabulary , and postcards and diaries were mercilessly read aloud as we trekked through the jungle of North Borneo . |
| 3 | He said this was not a change in policy , because peacekeepers had a duty to see that no harm came to civilians . |
| 4 | But it was brutally clear that love was not a feature in his thinking . |
| 5 | The monk-bishop was not a rarity in this period ; many of the greatest bishops had been monks . |
| 6 | It was the premium put upon child labour within the domestic family economy of textile manufacture which provides the context for Defoe 's observations of around 1720 on Norfolk that " the very children after four or five years of age , could earn their own bread " , while at Taunton " there was not a child in the town , or in the villages round it , of above five years old , but , if it was not neglected by its parents , and untaught , could earn its own bread " . |
| 7 | And the women were in their formals and they all sat down and there was not a laugh in the entire show . |
| 8 | Their solidarity against the world overrode internal tensions , and history was not a field in which one practitioner could win renown by criticizing his fellows . |
| 9 | In the event , catering and laundry work was not a field in which private sector contractors made many successful bids , and there was a tendency for bids to be less serious or successful in northern areas than in the South ( Mohan , 1988a ) . |
| 10 | Ewan Murray , the Games council 's chairman , said cost was not a factor in selecting the team , but only 15 athletes achieved the stringent qualifying standards set down by the Scottish Amateur Athletic Associaton — and one , Allister Hutton , is not going to Auckland because he wished to run in the 10,000 metres instead of the marathon , for which he had qualified . |
| 11 | Charman was himself insecure about his drumming ability , but it was not a factor in his departure . |
| 12 | There was not a doubt in his mind as to where she had taken the fifth picture on the film . |
| 13 | I have not heard a single argument — there was not a sentence in the Secretary of State 's speech — to suggest that the upper limit will be reached in the coming year . |
| 14 | The South Africans were escorted through red traffic lights to their hotel by police motorcyclists and vehicles , but there was not a demonstrator in sight . |
| 15 | He discovered that night , in what has been called his ‘ Luftwaffe ’ speech , that his was not a voice in the wilderness ; instead , he was speaking for the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 16 | Sometimes Bernard would work all through the night and there was not a day in winter even in snowy , freezing weather when they would n't turn up and bring sandwiches and bottles to keep us all going . ’ |
| 17 | Well folks this was not a classic in fact the first 40 minutes of the first half was utterly crap . |
| 18 | I really did feel like a Queen for a moment , well , even longer when I found it was not a flash in the pan , but that they were really going to stay with us . |
| 19 | What we must try and do now is prove Saturday was not a flash in the pan . ’ |
| 20 | She was not a character in the original Dick Tracy comic strip created by Chester Gould in 1931 . |
| 21 | George knew very well there was not a household in Oldfield , Nether Oldfield or Oldfield St Benet where that was not the case . |
| 22 | Until the end of the last century , knitting was not a pastime in Dent but a livelihood . |
| 23 | When the multi-millionaire megastar from Moonee Ponds lifted the lid off her hush-hush new spoof game show — there was not a celebrity in sight . |
| 24 | This was not a period in which the British suffered defeats gladly , however much their lack of preparation in peacetime might seem to invite them . |
| 25 | This happy-go-lucky attitude , with its underlying assumption that diplomacy was not a career in itself but an interlude in other and often more attractive ones , was slowly dying as system , method and organisation became more pervasive in all branches of government . |
| 26 | But one fine day in early summer when the sky was blue and there was not a cloud in the sky , Maxine found herself cancelling an arrangement to meet a friend in town . |
| 27 | Something warm and wet dropped on Gabriel 's forehead which was not a leak in the staging : Izzie was crying bitterly . |
| 28 | This was open desert , and there was not a dune in sight and it was firm underfoot . |
| 29 | The United States was not a signatory in the CENTO arrangement , but it became involved in CENTO planning and some of its military committees and virtually committed itself to a military response to an attack on any of its members . |
| 30 | Tina herself was not a risk in this area because the man she had lived with longer than any other was paying her £50 a week for the children 's keep . |