Example sentences of "were not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pit helmets ( hard hats ) were worn in club colours at matches before & during skinhead , so they were not a skinhead ‘ style ’ . |
| 2 | The earth-shattering orgasms that she had read about were not a con , they were there just waiting for her to experience them . |
| 3 | An evidently shaken Mr Kaifu returned from Palm Springs convinced that trade relations were not a problem but a crisis . |
| 4 | But as Chapman set about maintaining the momentum of his Northampton team after their 1909 Championship , and went in search of new players , transfer fees were not a problem . |
| 5 | The Boots offer was nothing new and Apex fares were not a problem , though Super Apex was possibly ‘ a different matter ’ . |
| 6 | For both spot and futures returns , there was no significant autocorrelation , suggesting that stale prices were not a problem for the index . |
| 7 | It has been held that payments to a bankrupt 's accountants were not a preference under s 340 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( p 101 ) . |
| 8 | Earlier this year , Mr Justice Morrit decided that certain payments to a bankrupt 's accountants were not a preference under s 340 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 9 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 10 | They were not a couple . |
| 11 | They were not a subdivision of Judaism , propounding one or another theological position . |
| 12 | Appearing before the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee on March 18 Shamir said that the Golan Heights were not a subject for territorial negotiation . |
| 13 | It was particularly offensive to hear the Secretary of State talking about price increases in the gas industry before privatisation , as though he were not a member of a party and Government who decreed that gas prices had to rise arbitrarily , unilaterally and unnecessarily by 10 per cent . |
| 14 | For example : In the event that any person or persons who was or were not a member or members of the Company on the date of the adoption of these Articles ( " the Acquiring Member " ) either alone or in concert ( as such expression is defined in the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers ) with any other person(s) , shall become beneficially entitled to more than [ 50 ] % of the issued Ordinary Share Capital of the Company after the date of adoption of these Articles he shall forthwith be required to serve notice on each of the holders of the Ordinary Share Capital of the Company that he is so beneficially entitled and shall thereupon be bound to offer to purchase the remaining shares in the Ordinary Share Capital of the Company at a price per share ( " the Acquisition Price " ) equal to the highest price per share paid by the Acquiring Member for such shares in the Company acquired by him . |
| 15 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 16 | Foreign correspondents who visited polling stations in Havana saw a number of ballot papers marked ‘ No ’ , spoiled in other ways or left blank , although these were not a majority . |
| 17 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 18 | These were not a success . |
| 19 | Some 600 acres of central Koln had been devastated , and although the other two targets within the 1,000-Plan were not a success due to poor weather , Harris had made his point . |
| 20 | To take on these powerful vested interests , so the argument runs , the reformers needed the support of rulers and bishops ( if bishops themselves were not a part of the local familial nexus ) , and rulers at the same time gained an opportunity to reduce the power of local aristocracies . |
| 21 | Domestic pets were not a part of Irish life ; animals were worked , not cosseted . |
| 22 | I 'm glad to say that in the Navy such luxuries were not a part of our conditions of service , and when I was ordered back to Germany in 1949 I had no option but to return . |
| 23 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |
| 24 | In fact its grip is restricted entirely to those propositions whose truth would mean that you were not a brain in a vat . |
| 25 | There we claimed that if nothing in your experience could count as evidence that you were not a brain in a vat , your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be called justified . |
| 26 | ‘ It would be a sad thing , ’ Angus answered at once , ‘ if Alex was taken away from his Mary into the army when they were not a year married . ’ |
| 27 | A report by the Medical Research Council concluded that the levels were not a hazard , however , and the pair were warned to keep their mouths shut . |
| 28 | ‘ You were not a stranger , ma chère . |
| 29 | The years 1945–5 I were not a period for new ideas , but for remedial action . |
| 30 | Others thought the CDP ‘ should not back down from accreditation as this would seem to suggest that CDP were not a body to be taken seriously ’ . |