Example sentences of "were not [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these sites were not villages at all , but hamlets . |
| 2 | But there were still those who suggested that its ‘ clumsy ’ diction and experimental forms were not poetry at all . |
| 3 | So they were not conservatives at all . |
| 4 | But Virgin were not victors at every auction . |
| 5 | Derek Gladwyn , chairman of the conference arrangement committee , said : ‘ The people photographed were not delegates at all . ’ |
| 6 | So , in their capacity as workers in those factories they were not Co-operators at all , though they may very well have been members of consumers , co-operative societies owning an interest in those factories . |
| 7 | Muni 's interest , however , would have come to nothing if there were not men at the studios who shared his enthusiasm for this potentially explosive subject . |
| 8 | Only two things wrong First , the examples given were not chemistry at all . |
| 9 | The windows had a sly , mean look , and Fenella had the sudden impression that the Workshops were not workshops at all , but a single crouching monster , black and hard-backed and scaly on the outside , but possessed of roaring , flaming innards , so that every breath it took belched out hissing steam and curls and wisps of flame . |
| 10 | The alleged inconsistencies which Mr Bacon referred to , including the permission for the Council 's own Headquarters , were not inconsistencies at all . |
| 11 | So often , it was claimed , local government was not the voice of the local community — election turnouts were derisory , elections were fought on national rather than local issues , and many voters were council employees ( with , therefore , a vested interest in greater spending ) , council house tenants ( with an interest in subsidized rents ) , or were not ratepayers at all . |
| 12 | The range was wide , but only the first two attracted much notice , the Arts Council Working Party pointing out in 1969 that since these were not crimes at all , how could it be ‘ a heavily punishable crime to ‘ induce ’ these particular non-crimes ? ’ |
| 13 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 14 | It seemed to his slow , sleep-sodden mind , that there were hundreds of the horrid things and that they were all bearing down on him , a rushing curtain of green and gold and brown , with here and there wild , menacing eyes and reaching , clutching hands that were not hands at all , but nasty , skeletal twigs . |
| 15 | But the council said they were n't gypsies at all . |
| 16 | Suddenly it was as though they were n't enemies at all , but locked in a passionate , warm embrace . |
| 17 | And , since her friends had known , but still let her walk right into it , Folly had decided impulsively that they were n't friends at all , and changed her plans . |
| 18 | But what if they were n't tactics at all ? |