Example sentences of "was not [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone might see and this was not Brighton and there were families about . |
| 2 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |
| 3 | ‘ I said that this was not Shelley and I ganging up in competition against them : it was just two businesswomen trying to make more business . |
| 4 | When the train drew into York station , bringing John back from his exile , it was not Nora but Sarah who waited to greet him on the platform . |
| 5 | It was not nausea and terror . |
| 6 | A closer look and I realized that it was not fog but smoke , and very thick at that . |
| 7 | Brian Pritchard , chairman , insisted that all was not gloom and doom , pointing to the success of West Venture Development , the group 's Southern Californian subsidiary , which this year is expected to double its output to about 500 homes . |
| 8 | The upshot , however , was not revolution but the destruction of the organization . |
| 9 | What she felt for David was not love but gratitude , with maybe a scattering of affection . |
| 10 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 11 | That was not indexation but a recognition of the fact that , if an exemption is to be made , it should be at a sensible and workable level . |
| 12 | The major barrier was not conscience but total disbelief . |
| 13 | Another incident which raised sovereignty as a public and formal issue was more complex : the formal cause was not indignation but the pertinacious enthusiasm of an Ajdabiyan municipal policeman . |
| 14 | For him the criterion of musical phenomena was not mathematics but the ear . |
| 15 | His offence was not flagitiousness but the vulgarity , ostentation , and political inexperience of a parvenu . |
| 16 | This sort of theatre was not literature but was visual , its effects created through sounds and images . |
| 17 | Right now the bait was not money or easy winners , just the chance to earn a living by riding horses in races without fearing for her life . |
| 18 | ‘ I am saying , Lachlan Cattanach , that whoever hurt your father 's heir it was not I. Nor you . ’ |
| 19 | Fforde 's error ( and Eccleshall makes the same mistake ) is simply that the ‘ orthodoxy ’ which Dicey and his friends in the LPDL espoused was not Conservatism but classical mid-Victorian Liberalism . |
| 20 | This was not hype but hwyl . |
| 21 | It was not hype or cleverly taken pictures designed for ‘ sophisticated ’ audiences , sated daily by instant coverage of war and disaster ; the problem is real enough — and in real terms , it very nearly defies description . |
| 22 | For the traditional élites , it was not charisma but pragmatic power considerations which aligned them with Hitler . |
| 23 | Perhaps this was not evolution but revolution . |
| 24 | Possibly what I was seeing was not Birmingham but our urban and industrial civilisation . |
| 25 | Elsewhere , it was not Vikings but local producers and traders and lords who made and benefited from the growth of markets . |
| 26 | My application to do research at Cambridge was accepted , provided I got a first , but to my annoyance my supervisor was not Hoyle but a man called Denis Sciama , of whom I had not heard . |
| 27 | The destination was not Athens but Thessalonika . |
| 28 | It collapsed like a punctured airbag , except that what came forth was not air but rank , fetid water , vomiting out in a copious stream and bringing with it a stench that sent them both staggering back several paces . |
| 29 | Gorbachev declared that what had collapsed was not socialism but Stalinism , stressing that " it is impossible to ensure one 's own security at the expense of anybody else 's … and to pretend to know better how other peoples and nations should manage their affairs " . |
| 30 | As the taxpayer was deemed to have the beneficial interest in that part of the interest in possession vested in the company , the property transferred was not shares but the vested interest in possession and so para 15(3) ( ba ) , Sch 6 did not apply . |