Example sentences of "[was/were] not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The commissions were not of much political importance themselves , but each of the thirty-two county commissions was headed by a national figure whose selection gives some idea of the balance of power . |
| 32 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
| 33 | They were not of his world . |
| 34 | From all of this Edward gained immediate advantages , though they were not of long-term benefit to the English monarchy ; they were decidedly disadvantageous to the papacy . |
| 35 | A pity , in a way , that the dancing would be merely metaphorical : this was a house large enough to accommodate dancing , but their friends were not of the dancing classes , would gaze in astonishment , alarm , sophisticated horror , intellectual condemnation , at dancing in a private house … another year , perhaps , for the dancing . |
| 36 | The brothers looked like moderns , acted like moderns , but in truth they were not of this age . |
| 37 | ‘ concluded that the submissions raised in it were not of sufficient substance to justify referring the same to the judiciary or altering the first review date . |
| 38 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 39 | ‘ I 've been wondering about David , ’ said Julia casually , as though the question were not of the utmost Importance to her . |
| 40 | There must be equality of rights for all citizens regardless of nationality ; and there could be no excuse for discrimination against any of them , nor for ‘ extremist gatherings ’ which had terrorised local people who were not of the majority affiliation . |
| 41 | With my ham and cheese , which were not of my making , they brought me iced seltzer . |
| 42 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 43 | Many of her friends had stepparents , and few of them were happy about it : in their rambling and interminable discussions they would deplore the stupidity and selfishness of their elders in introducing into their homes strangers who were not of their blood and who insisted on peculiar foodstuffs and liked or disliked various types of music — whichever was most inconvenient and painful to the children of the house . |
| 44 | In the evil , glowing red light they could see that the walls were not of brick or timber or of anything that walls were normally made of . |
| 45 | 29996 preserves many more of his compositions , together with an alternatim organ Mass by another St. Paul 's musician Philip ap Rhys , who succeeded him as organist , and a considerable number of organ works ( including the Proper of a Mass for Easter Day and eight ‘ Felix namque ’ which might be regarded as a set of variations though they were not of course played as such ) by Thomas Preston ( d. c. 1564 ) , organist of Magdalen College , Oxford , and later of the Chapel Royal at Windsor . |
| 46 | These were not of equal intensity , so that the low glacial sea levels may not have been identical . |
| 47 | But for her , the challenge in Athene lay in bringing to the attentions of the readers items which were not of specifically female concerns . |
| 48 | Quite suddenly whether Anne worried or what she thought were not of the least importance . |
| 49 | He would have been happier with a committee , but the owners , of whom several rented rather than owned their boats , were not of the substance from which committees are formed . |
| 50 | A similar distinction lies at the base of J. R. Walsh 's treatment of the muftis : doubtless writing about a period later than that under consideration in the present study , he states , in regard to what Hezarfen would call the that aside from the occasional retired kadi or " a member of one of the local learned families in the larger cities , … the were not of the class " . |
| 51 | In Jackson v. Rotax Motor and Cycle Co. ( 1910 C.A. ) the buyer accepted as satisfactory the first delivery of motor horns but claimed to reject the later deliveries because they were not of merchantable quality . |
| 52 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |
| 53 | The malai junior commanders in the field were not of the smartest . |
| 54 | But I think it 's fair to say that the changes in the n nine , early nineteen eighties particularly those which gave the unions a predominant position in choosing the leader , were not of the unions ' making , certainly not of the G M B's making , as I know from personal experience at the time . |
| 55 | We held out strongly in the EC to have our standards implemented widely throughout the Community and when it was clear that other nations were not of a similar mind , we voted against the directive . |
| 56 | Such opinions were not of themselves particularly harmful . |
| 57 | His thoughts were not of Britain 's fate , nor Poland 's , but of Hannele 's . |
| 58 | The commissions were not of much political importance themselves , but each of the thirty-two county commissions was headed by a national figure whose selection gives some idea of the balance of power . |
| 59 | Some of the problems he faced were not of his own making . |
| 60 | He knows the authority that he 's had in that community , he has seen supernatural things happening in his life and through him , albeit , they were not of God , but has been involved in supernatural things . |