Example sentences of "was not [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not to the Israelites in the ancient world , as they recited Psalm 128 . |
| 2 | Even here , as the fact of policing came to be established , opposition was not to the police per se , but to specific operations or tactics . |
| 3 | And this was not on the women 's pages of the Daily Mail , but an article written by a woman on the Law page of the Guardian . |
| 4 | In Dekker the employer had tried to argue that the refusal to hire was not on the grounds of pregnancy but on the ground of adverse financial consequences the firm could not pay for a replacement during the period of maternity leave needed by Ms Dekker and as a result the firm would be short-staffed . |
| 5 | Slaven said after the game : ‘ I could not believe I was not on the substitutes ’ bench . ’ |
| 6 | Captain Tupper , calling off a strike of fishermen in which he was engaged in August 1914 declared simply that " our fight was not with the employers but with another force which had attacked all that was ours " . |
| 7 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 8 | At one stage of the argument Mr. Browne suggested that the investigation here was not under the provisions of section 85 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , the analogue of section 49 of the Act of 1964 , but rather under section 88 . |
| 9 | It was not like the movies : there was no second punch |
| 10 | He was not like the saints you read about who had been parish priests . |
| 11 | When the challenge to the court came , it was not from the heirs of the rebels or from the discontented northerners , but from the queen . |
| 12 | But while it would be wrong to minimize the hold of this movement , particularly in the south of France and in the Balkans , and especially between Bulgaria and Constantinople , the major threat to the future of the Church was not from the heretics but from the popular movements that sought to restore the laity 's role in the life of the Church . |
| 13 | ‘ I was not in the woods . |
| 14 | Cynics argued that it was not in the interests of the nuclear industry to create even more public concern . |
| 15 | Jesus pointed out that taking the law this far was not in the interests of people . |
| 16 | The Director 's action in intervening to offer no evidence , on the ground that it was not in the interests of justice or the public for the prosecution to continue , was upheld by the courts . |
| 17 | This was not confined to security information but encompassed any information which was not in the interests of the state to disclose . |
| 18 | According to ULIMO — a coalition of supporters of former President Samuel Doe reportedly based in Sierra Leone — the agreement was not in the interests of the Liberian people but of those of rebel leader Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) . |
| 19 | It was not in the circumstances a natural use of the land to plant on it a poisonous tree . |
| 20 | This was not in the rules . |
| 21 | As Stephen Wood points out in his Introduction to his edited book discussing the de-skilling thesis ( Wood 1982 , 15 ) , Braverman appears to assume ‘ that prior to Taylorism control was not in the hands of management , but was rather a kind of management by neglect ( the laissez-faire method , as Taylor called it ) , in which workers knew more than managers ’ . |
| 22 | No , said Nigel , it was not in the terms of reference . |
| 23 | It was not until the Spirits Act of 1860 that bottled Scotch whisky could be exported to England . |
| 24 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 25 | The simplest solution would be to raise grants to a civilised level and then to peg them to the movement of wages or prices , but this was not among the options considered by the government when it began to look at student funding . |
| 26 | Azerbaijan was not among the signatories . |
| 27 | She wondered idly why Rose had not asked him to apply the sun-cream and then realised that he was not among the swimmers . |
| 28 | Prince Charles Edward was not among the runaways although to rescue him had been the task force 's real objective . |
| 29 | But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools , provided that was not against the parents ' principles . |
| 30 | When the universities reacted unfavourably to this aspect of the paper , accusing its authors of philistinism , the then Secretary of State , Sir Keith Joseph , was quick to reply that he was not against the arts subjects : far from it . |