Example sentences of "was not [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The melody which receives Rachmaninov 's magisterial attention was not Corelli 's own but that old Iberian favourite , La Folia ( its origin has been traced to Portugal , around 1500 ) . |
| 2 | It was not Hugh 's face but that of Fenton Marshall . |
| 3 | But such spite was not Osvaldo 's legacy . |
| 4 | When de Gaulle challenged Churchill about Madagascar , the prime minister reminded the General that he was not Britain 's only ally . |
| 5 | She reminded herself that it was not Paul 's fault ; and yet , somehow , he should have been able to shield her from this kind of outrage . |
| 6 | Many rural authorities followed the example of Cambridgeshire village colleges inspired by Henry Morris , the chief education officer , so that Devon , Somerset and Leicestershire all wrote the notion into their development plans and did actually build some , which would support the argument that the major move towards equality that was achieved by the 1944 Education Act was the diminution of the gap between rural and urban children — this was not Butler 's two nations becoming one but it was a step towards it . |
| 7 | She sat in the flat in the silence that was not Ruth 's silence . |
| 8 | It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , John Wilkins was to say that a prevalent objection to the Copernican system was not man 's dethronement but an elevation above his true station . |
| 10 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 11 | A dash of wry cynicism might have helped another woman , but that was not Franca 's way . |
| 12 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 13 | His name was not Albert McKillop and he was not Elsie 's brother . |
| 14 | According to some sources Goh was not Lee 's first choice for the succession ; at least one other minister reportedly declined the post . |
| 15 | It was not Srikkanth 's day : he recovered to open the Indian reply , but was unhappy at being given out caught behind off McDermott ( Healy 's 100th Test catch ) , indicating that the ball hit his forearm . |
| 16 | Adalard was not Ermentrude 's only close relative . |
| 17 | That was not boy 's cake ! |
| 18 | Although he had a stylish vulnerability when it came to cars , driving was not Baxter 's strong point . |
| 19 | Still critical of the economic and social pressures which centred around the city they could yet find no alternative in this countryside where nature , it was known , was not Marlowe 's ‘ beds of roses ‘ . |
| 20 | The child , Beryl , was born and everybody seemed content except that gossip insisted the child was not Edwin 's . ’ |
| 21 | It was not Virgin 's responsibility , but from Chemical 's headquarters in New York , the instruction went out to terminate a number of existing contracts negotiated by the London office — Virgin 's among them . |
| 22 | It was not Temple 's oratory which persuaded him , for he thought it ‘ rather rotund ’ . |
| 23 | A vital thumb print , which they discovered was not Elizabeth 's , has been taken from it . |
| 24 | It was not Billingsley 's physical size that provoked that fear , for I was of a size with him , nor was it his profession that gave me pause , but rather the aura of incipient violence that he radiated like a blast furnace . |
| 25 | And in God 's plan at this particular moment i this was not Philip 's function , it was n't his job . |
| 26 | He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience . |
| 27 | Simon knew that live music was not Yorick 's forte , but he could hardly go wrong before a small and carefully chosen audience , especially if the bar prices were heavily subsidized : drinks were free for anyone equipped with a press card . |
| 28 | Gabriel kept quiet , well aware she was not Rose 's favourite girl either . |
| 29 | It was not Gandhi 's intention when he originally decided to fast to exert moral coercion on the mill-owners , since coercion in any form was contrary to the aims of satyāgraha , yet despite the unexpected result of his fast Gandhi still felt that he had acted correctly in the circumstances.m The experience did not prevent him either from using fasts as a form of satyāgraha on other occasions with similar results . |
| 30 | This was not Phoebe 's place and she knew quite simply that tomorrow morning she would go to see her own GP and organize the necessary hospital visit . |