Example sentences of "were not the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect . |
| 2 | The 330 replies showed that 22 servicemen had died of reticuloendothelia system neoplasms ( cancers ) , and another five dead men had a history of such diseases although they were not the primary cause of death . |
| 3 | They were not the shabby workmen , but were dressed in what looked like blue and white satin . |
| 4 | Filmmakers and critics were not the only ones worrying about the state of British filmmaking , nor was the film industry the only British enterprise losing out to American competition . |
| 5 | Local reports in Bavaria do , however , apart from registering ‘ loyal ’ opinion , provide some indications that the reactions depicted in the central SD reports were not the only ones to be observed . |
| 6 | Ron and his peers were not the only ones to be obliged to move by the War . |
| 7 | These early subscription libraries , often in their listed buildings , were not the only ones used by the public . |
| 8 | It seemed that Ellen and I were not the only ones to take such a precaution , for late that night Jackson Chatterton lumbered on deck with a bottle in one huge hand . |
| 9 | Let them show the enemy that they were not the only ones who could attack by sea ; and show also that the Scots could do it in less blundering fashion . |
| 10 | It turned out she was just as fed up as me , and we were not the only ones . |
| 11 | But pupils were not the only ones ‘ dropping out ’ . |
| 12 | With upwards of four-fifths of people here having less than 30s. in personal property , nobody at all was worth as much as 40s. in one township out of every three , especially upland ones like Arncliff , Hellifield and Kettlewell , though these were not the only ones . |
| 13 | They were not the only ones . |
| 14 | Few people in the village had skates but those who did were not the only ones to gather at the lake that morning without invitation or fear of rebuke . |
| 15 | Some of his old friends claim he also flirted with other women and Meli and Marje were not the only ladies in his life . |
| 16 | The distribution of patronage and the related question of internal security were not the only problems exercising the protector during May and early June . |
| 17 | The distribution of patronage and the related question of internal security were not the only problems exercising the protector during May and early June . |
| 18 | Children were not the only dependents of working women . |
| 19 | Air raids were not the only hazard to which central Baghdad was exposed . |
| 20 | Changes in the social environment were not the only consequences of the Industrial Revolution to have importance for the development of local government . |
| 21 | Yet these were not the only revolutions . |
| 22 | Benefices , however , were not the only church assets which the king exploited for his clerks . |
| 23 | They were not the only respondent of the survey who identified another clear advantage of headhunting , especially for the most senior positions : that staff who were prepared to move jobs actually prefer to be headhunted , rather than face the time-consuming task of ploughing through advertisements or the slightly demoralising task of putting their names down with agencies . |
| 24 | True , the political parties were not the only forums in which the idea of citizenship was being debated from the mid-1980s . |
| 25 | The malaise had spread countrywide however ; Coniston and Keswick were not the only mining regions to suffer inactivity . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either . |
| 27 | Incidents of this kind were not the only contribution to tension over this period . |
| 28 | Gnosticism and Marcion 's onslaught on everything Jewish in the Christian tradition were not the only factors in precipitating the formation of the canon . |
| 29 | It was when the novices began to overtake the experts that confirmation , if needed , came that sailing skills were not the only factors involved . |
| 30 | But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time . |