Example sentences of "was not [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first letter I opened was not a sympathy card but a £40 bill from Warwickshire ambulance service for the use of two of its vehicles . |
| 2 | His own association with the court of the Great Criminal was not a secret , least of all to these people , and their attitude to him was one which Merymose had no power to influence . |
| 3 | Antonio Gramsci ( 1991–1937 ) was not a penologist — but he was , famously , a prisoner . |
| 4 | Only through Cunhaval was she aware of life in the forest and it was not a life-form that encouraged them to slow down and set a trap . |
| 5 | For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles . |
| 6 | It was not a husband/wife case . |
| 7 | It was not a memory she cherished . |
| 8 | They have come around to accepting them , but on the dubious grounds that the palaeontological evidence now proves that the earliest hominids arose in Africa about 5–6 million years ago and that Ramapithecus was not a hominid . |
| 9 | I wanted to say that it was not a question of ‘ letting ’ Aunt Louise do anything ; I wanted to say I should like to see anyone trying to stop her from doing anything she had set her heart on . |
| 10 | It was not a question of committing himself . |
| 11 | He found that ‘ language , in short , was not a question of sounds only — it was a whole complex of verbal and non-verbal communication , some of it highly individual and dependent on familiarity for its comprehension . |
| 12 | It was not a question requiring an answer — Weasel was a good friend from art school days and often dropped in unannounced . |
| 13 | It was not a question Dalgliesh would have expected , even from a friend , and Rickards was not a friend . |
| 14 | It was not a question , but a flat statement . |
| 15 | This was not a question of either niceness or laziness . |
| 16 | This time it was not a question of skirmishing along the border , but of a major re-occupation of territory lost since 1183 . |
| 17 | He knew it was ; it was not a question . |
| 18 | It was not a question of the right the child had after conception , but of the right to compensation which commenced when she was born . |
| 19 | She was tempted somehow to ask the Princesse why her father had not married her instead of Sylvie , but it was not a question which could easily be put . |
| 20 | Twenty-four hours later he admonished Babs for over-stressing the little-girl aspect of Cleopatra , pointing out that childishness of character was not a question of years and that she was mistaken if she supposed the difference between folly and wisdom had anything to do with either age or youth . |
| 21 | ‘ It was not a question of coming between Malcolm and John , ’ says Draper . |
| 22 | But , then , Boxer not only had no nerves , he also had no qualms ; the morality of their actions — of any action in the national struggle — was not a question he ever weighed . |
| 23 | It was not a question he would ever have put to her . |
| 24 | It was not a question , there was no smile . |
| 25 | This was not a question . |
| 26 | It was not a question for the likes of him , or even Foley . |
| 27 | It was not a question of implying a term but giving the proper construction to the relevant word . |
| 28 | Mr Major attacked Labour again in Commons questions for ‘ talking Britain down ’ , prompting Mr Smith later to suggest that it was not a question of who is talking the country down , but pulling it down . |
| 29 | This was not a question , it was an answer . |
| 30 | God was not a word in a book or a gigantic figure in the sky . |