Example sentences of "was not [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain retained a parliamentary form of government , but what that meant was not government by Parliament but government through Parliament . |
| 2 | The two men , forced by their fate into this intimacy that was not intimacy at all , sat in silence , the words used up . |
| 3 | I even remember it was a Sunday and thinking that this was not day to be flying your last mission . |
| 4 | She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that . |
| 5 | It was not diversity for environmental reasons , towards a cleaner source of energy . |
| 6 | From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace . |
| 7 | It was an appeal and he was not proof against it . |
| 8 | And even good food was not proof against the malignance that hung in the air , in the rotting soil , in the ill-washed vessels from which they ate and drank . |
| 9 | Mrs Alderley was not proof against the desperation of her tone . |
| 10 | And it was not Marxism for a number of reasons and this is almost certainly going to be very controversial so I hope that it will feed discussion in the , in the second half . |
| 11 | It was not income from the interest under the trust ( which would have been a foreign possession regardless of the underlying sources ) . |
| 12 | There was a need for concerted action that was not evidence of weakness but of ‘ confidence and strength ’ . |
| 13 | It said that its study had not discovered any conclusive evidence on the damage done to humans by low-level exposure , but it stated that the lack of information and knowledge of the effects of exposure to low doses of the chemicals over a long period had led the working party to adopt the precautionary principle that absence of evidence was not evidence of absence . |
| 14 | If I did n't have that advantage , I might easily be extremely suspicious of what was going on and think that much of the sort of thing they 're used to especially at primary school was not maths at all but was playing around with bits of string and round cylinders and erm certainly nothing like I remember doing . |
| 15 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 16 | Anyhow , there was not space for the two of them in the attic for ever . |
| 17 | So proof that Mr. Occhi had consented to the appropriation of £6 from his wallet without agreeing to paying a sum in excess of the legal fare does not suffice to show that there was not dishonesty in this case . |
| 18 | The effect of that in 1988–9 was not starvation in developing countries but higher food bills . |
| 19 | And there was not question of Laws being being er sent off for that . |
| 20 | The weather was not kind to the competitors in 1987 , being very wet and stormy . |
| 21 | And so , the media was not kind after Sharon 's slaughter by the Manson disciples , hence Nicholson 's remark about Sharon having been murdered in the newspapers . |
| 22 | Some comfort for us though in that the line of inferior division was not north of Luton , but of York ; nothing changes ! |
| 23 | With regard to the national economy in such a state of affairs , the principal slogan was not concern for its lasting restoration … but the immediate securing of produce , even at the cost of undermining the productive forces . |
| 24 | It is plain too , that dinosaurs in their highest forms were far from being lumbering brutes ; and there is overwhelming evidence that what finally defeated them was not competition from ‘ higher ’ forms of life , but changes in climate , possibly exacerbated by catastrophic events , including the impact of giant meteors . |
| 25 | By all accounts Saturday 's display ( it was not desertion of the cause but prior engagements which made it impossible to be there ) from the mighty Quakers was slightly better than the previous innocuous effort . |
| 26 | Some reports suggested a death toll as high as 150-200 in Mali and perhaps twice that number in Niger , in what was increasingly described as a separatist rebellion , although other reports suggested that in Mali at least the objective of anti-government elements was not independence for the north-east but the overthrow of the government in Bamako . |
| 27 | There were great rabbis in the cities , but I was not part of that . |
| 28 | Strength , however , was not part of the problem-He , of course , was a married man , a married Englishman , like Trevor Howard or James Mason in an early role . |
| 29 | They can not remember when Britain was not part of the European Community or when there were not ‘ troubles ’ in Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | The defendants tried to prove that Umkhonto we Sizwe was not part of the ANC . |