Example sentences of "was not [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was not to the White House but the Treasury Building next door that the embassy car delivered Maxim at three o'clock that afternoon . |
| 2 | It would be nice to dismiss this as a problem concerning a far-off country paying the price of its excess , if it was not for the West 's dependency on Japan 's past boom . |
| 3 | If it was not for the Leeds fans and manager Howard Wilkinson I would not have got anywhere near this . |
| 4 | They said the part was not on the Boeing checklist , even though it has been widely blamed for the crash , which killed at least 43 people . |
| 5 | But the fact is that a Hunt victory was not on the Ferrari books if they had ceded — after a re-start which looked as though it favoured Hunt — they would have been lynched in Italy , where only a Ferrari is allowed to win . |
| 6 | Because the local representative of Burra and Trondra was not at the February meeting , the matter was deferred until March , when again the councillor for the area failed to attend , resulting in yet another deferral . |
| 7 | John Nicholas was not amongst the Balderton men who paid the 1524 lay subsidy but he was a manorial court juror four years later . |
| 8 | She was not like the Glasgow woman , who had shown him out into the street . |
| 9 | At last he recalled it was not in the Nightingale Gallery but in the one running to the left . |
| 10 | However , Livings was not in the USA to see Dustin and a cast which included Dana Elcar , Elizabeth Wilson ( who would play Dustin 's mother in The Graduate ) and Carl Gabler when it opened at Circle-In-The-Square at Bleeker Street on 16 October 1966 . |
| 11 | Declan Bonner was not in the Donegal line-up — he was far too busy running the show in a club championship match . |
| 12 | Needless to say , there was no promise of 90% grant-aid which was not in the Ashby Report anyway , but the Minister did agree to reconsider the proposal to omit Tutorial Classes from the grant regulations . |
| 13 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 14 | It was not until the UN Conference on Population in Bucharest in 1973 that a more radical critique of family planning programmes was launched and widely discussed at international level . |
| 15 | As the company was not a party , discovery as understood in England was not available ; as it was not within the United Kingdom no subpoena duces tecum could be issued ( and that would only secure the production of documents at the trial , not for pre-trial inspection ) . |