Example sentences of "was not [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caroline Fairley , wife of Lt-Commander The Honourable Charles Fairley , RN , had apparently lost control of a car that was not hers on a small country road in Oxfordshire and crashed into a tree . |
| 2 | But what he was protecting was not her at all . |
| 3 | The sergeant was not one to be hurried or flustered . |
| 4 | Moreover , the vice of sodomy , which Anselm was especially harsh in denouncing in his conciliar decrees , was not one to which Henry 's court , unlike Rufus 's , was especially addicted . |
| 5 | In R. v. Merthyr Tydvil JJ. ( 1885 ) 14 Q.B.D. 584 , it was held that an objection made by a chief constable to an application for a licence to the court in their private room was not one to which the court could give effect . |
| 6 | True , Rupert had proposed the match , and sent envoys a full year previously to treat for Blanche 's hand , and the alliance was not one to be despised . |
| 7 | If the result was not one for Graham Turner to celebrate on the third anniversary of his takeover at Wolves , the manner of their performance should certainly cheer him on his 42nd birthday today . |
| 8 | The opposition leaders he met agreed that the question of reunification of Germany was not one for the German people alone , but was the rightful concern of their European neighbours . |
| 9 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 10 | He was not one for burning his boats . |
| 11 | Bill was not one for lengthy explanations . |
| 12 | He was not one for the romantic niceties , was Reg . |
| 13 | Jonadab confirmed that the shepherd was not one for strong drink and was beginning to think that George had possibly made a good choice , when the old farmer and his wife came back along the line . |
| 14 | She was not one for showing off , she just liked to do the washing up and be there and look after everybody . |
| 15 | Vanessa was not one for crying . |
| 16 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 17 | She was not one for planning or manoeuvring but confidential reports are kept on Salvation Army officers throughout their careers . |
| 18 | He was not one for admiring the sunset . |
| 19 | In Elders IXL/Allied Lyons ( 1986 ) the MMC concerned itself with the method by which Elders ' bid was to be financed , but came to the view that the issue of leveraged bids was not one on which it should pronounce . |
| 20 | Among the stacks of pillows there was not one without its goffered frill . |
| 21 | But such a future , Eliot wrote , was not one in which he or his readers ought to be interested . |
| 22 | He noted that the relationship of husband and wife was not one in which any presumption arose of undue influence but , after citing a passage from Story , Equity Jurisprudence , 2nd ed. ( 1892 ) , p. 955 , para. 1395 , that ‘ courts of equity examine every such transaction between husband and wife with an anxious watchfulness , and caution , and dread of undue influence , ’ he commented , 63 C.L.R. 649 , 675 : |
| 23 | The application was refused , Vinelott J. holding that the alleged offence was not one in connection with the management of the company 's affairs . |
| 24 | This early atmosphere was not one in which we could have survived . |
| 25 | The theatre was not something of which her parents would have approved , such frivolous pleasures were not for the likes of hard-working shoemakers . |
| 26 | Although Darwin had guessed that the Galapagos birds originated from there , because the Galapagos were so young , it was not something of which he could be certain . |
| 27 | In a recent article in a Dutch newspaper ( NRC Handelsblad 25.3.92 ) , Keune was quoted as saying that the paint was ‘ an industrial product with good properties for objects which have to endure a lot of wear and tear , but that it was not something to be used in restorations . |
| 28 | Despite the myriad perversions emblazoned across Vivienne Westwood 's clothes for ‘ Sex ’ , Punk Rock 's concerns were not private but public : the Self here was amplified , in songs like ‘ I Wan na Be Me ’ , into a desperate assertion of individuality in a Burroughsian world of collapsing values and dehumanized sex , and the body was not something to be celebrated but — in songs like ‘ Bodies ’ , with its excoriation , ‘ I 'm not an animal ! ’ — objectified through fear . |
| 29 | He concluded by saying that if you believe in God you have to find other ways to convince people that He exists , and that was not something to be discussed in this lesson . |
| 30 | The absence of a strong party structure was not something in which the DUP rejoiced . |