Example sentences of "were not [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no ‘ international affairs ’ , only relations between ruling dynasties ( who were not members or representatives of different nations , but part of a single class ) . |
| 2 | He liked her ; but then , he was keen for me to go out with anyone , as long as they were not boys or Indians . |
| 3 | In the sixties my heroines were not Bardot or Monroe or Vivien Leigh , but Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies . |
| 4 | In 1662 , after the restoration of the monarchy , a further law , the Act of Settlement , restricted the movement of those who were not freeholders or who could not afford a rent of £10 per year . |
| 5 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 6 | They were n't lovers or sweethearts . |