Example sentences of "was not the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And gradually he came to realize that there was a particular reason for the attraction which was not the empathy of the girl . |
| 2 | As a publicity exercise , however , its main target was not the public at all , but the CAA . |
| 3 | Repatriation was not the concern of the embassy , they must go to the British Consulate , a little distance away on the other side of the Brandenburg Gate . |
| 4 | Was not the Secretary of State a little disappointed at the reaction of some Church leaders to the successful contact by the security forces at Coalisland ? |
| 5 | Juliet waited , a little hope in her growing , after his statement that Moira was not the girl for him . |
| 6 | It was not the issue of his salary alone . |
| 7 | In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now . |
| 8 | But he was not the landlord of Dublin Castle . |
| 9 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 10 | This did not take on , but from the time of the Pioneers some red-figure artists sometimes draw in outline on a white slip , most often on the interior of a cup where there was not the problem of the receding surface . |
| 11 | In mitigation Charles Foster for Coulson said his client was not the villain of the piece and had lost £9,000 through his involvement . |
| 12 | That function was not the provision of wholesome food at fair prices . |
| 13 | The controlling element in this long development was not the ingenuity of men nor the pressure of society but the nature of the world as it was revealed to increasingly thorough investigation . |
| 14 | The eighties was not the decade in which people abandoned railways , not anyway in Britain . |
| 15 | Edward Adeane was not the man for the job . |
| 16 | Hardy , in contrast , with his traditional ‘ sponge and bucket ’ approach to treatment , was not the man for Chapman , who wanted an up-to-date training and medical department that could deal with injuries quickly and effectively . |
| 17 | He was not the man for the task , once Will Douglas was lost to him . ’ |
| 18 | But observers question whether the board 's taciturn general manager , Laurence Peterken , was not the man in the driving seat . |
| 19 | This then was not the substance of the disagreement between the two protagonists . |
| 20 | I looked to Mrs for guidance ; she looked amused , so I surmised it was not the inception of a punishment for my earlier and inconvenient frankness . |
| 21 | Although this was not the music of the star performers , some names became established . |
| 22 | He hoped that an early frost was not the sign of a hard winter . |
| 23 | If Jean-Claude sneezed , it was not the sign of an oncoming cold but of flu . |
| 24 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |
| 25 | His realism was not the realism of his forebears . |
| 26 | The result was that there was not the level of ability on the shop floor to sustain the German system of decentralisation and shop-floor level integration of work . |
| 27 | The most significant of these was the substitution of a wooden table for a stone altar , a move that gave a visual emphasis to the Protestant belief that the eucharist was not the re-enactment of Christ 's sacrifice on Calvary but a remembrance of the Last Supper . |
| 28 | And that is why Peter 's office decided long ago that he was not the person to be first to hear news about the latest software products . |
| 29 | The Tehran trip in May , in which he was humiliated , made him all the more certain that however good the ends , ‘ this was not the kind of exchange that was proper . ’ |
| 30 | She was not the kind of mother who by carelessness would make her child feel insecure . |