Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the inglorious fall of his Government , accompanied as it was by a whole series of faux pas , Ramsay MacDonald 's future , crowed the wiseacres of London , was not worth a single cent . |
| 2 | She rarely smiled but this was not through a lack of good nature : her responsibilities had given her a serious expression . |
| 3 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
| 4 | I questioned the bishop about this and found that the monument needed immediate attention but was not of a high priority and no funds were available . |
| 5 | Such was his reputation that 2,000 people attended his funeral in Russia and one of the first statues in St Paul 's Cathedral in London was not of a sovereign , statesman or saint — but a simple , teetotal , vegetarian traveller who , as the inscription notes : |
| 6 | Marriage to Leahy had had its ups and downs , of course ; but Joan was not of a nature to play anybody false . |
| 7 | But of his courage , though it was not of a kind that Hotspur admired , there could be little doubt ; and of his ability and calculating detachment , none . |
| 8 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 9 | When Boniface was consecrated bishop by Pope Gregory II in 722 , it was not to a particular see , but to a very wide commission of preaching to heathens , such as , for instance , the Aquitanian St Amand had had in northern Gaul during the previous century . |
| 10 | The demand which grew up amongst Congregationalists and , to a lesser degree , Baptists was not for a radical shift in the nature of their worship but for the external embellishment of traditional worship : flowers , organs and stained glass , but not chants , Holy Tables and liturgical seasons . |
| 11 | She agreed to avoid alcohol , and because the next session was not for a week , to telephone the therapist in 3 days time to inform him of her progress . |
| 12 | One horse had detached itself and ambled towards the line of protesters but it was not for a moment that Meredith realised , with a pang of dismay , that it was Blazer carrying Harriet . |
| 13 | He hoped Barbara could read the sub-text here : that if she was offering him some kind of invitation — and he was not for a moment suggesting that he was worthy of such a thing if she were — then he was regretfully declining it , on the understanding that both of them knew why . |
| 14 | However , despite being framed as a negative provision , the House of Lords held that the clause was unenforceable as it lacked certainty in that it was not for a fixed period of duration . |
| 15 | The moment I saw the church , although there were considerable differences — the main and obvious one being it was not on a hill — I accepted it as my church . |
| 16 | There was a lower success rate when the angle to be measured was not on a labelled part of the scale ( Table 4.14 ) . |
| 17 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 18 | I knew it was not on a gramophone ; someone was playing it . |
| 19 | This was not on a massive scale , for the area was sparsely populated in the past , and remains thinly populated even today . |
| 20 | After all , his impulsive invitation — made largely , she guessed , so that Faye and Bill could be alone for the evening to talk over the difficult issues of the amniocentesis — was not on a par with his dates with Marise or Paula . |
| 21 | In this labyrinth the Friar was not at a loss but strode on purposefully . |
| 22 | On this measure , in average terms , Britain was not at a disadvantage after 1967 since exchange rate adjustments compensated for higher costs [ National Institute , 1972 ] . |
| 23 | The fact that he could get such good results by orthodox bowling also left one wondering why he occasionally indulged in a bouncer war , for it obviously did his reputation no good and was not as a rule very productive . |
| 24 | The significance of this epic was not as a record of the past , but rather as a means of ensuring the theologico-political supremacy of Marduk in the present . |
| 25 | However Derek Hyde 's vision of the tramway was not as a museum line , but as a forward-looking system of transportation in the field of light rail , the virtues of which were again being recognised . |
| 26 | Even at the beginning of 1934 the anti-Semitism of the British Union of Fascists was not as a rule overt . |
| 27 | If , and it was a very big ‘ if ’ , Riddle 's body had been substituted for the Scapegoat he felt sure that it was not as a convenient way of disposing of the body but to give more effective expression to the hatred which had inspired his killing . |
| 28 | While at Trelawne he was known as a jovial fellow who drank more wine than was customary among the clergy , but was not without a vicious temper and a rough tongue . |
| 29 | ‘ This was not without a significant public response from animal welfare groups and pigeon fanciers ' organisations in the area . |
| 30 | And moreover Clara had even seen in the phrase some dim , far-off flicker of comfort , because , harsh though it was , it was not without a consoling figurative literary beauty . |