Example sentences of "[vb past] not [be] [vb pp] as [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He enjoyed not being known as Inspector Rose , he enjoyed the sausages from Spratling 's Colonial Butchers , he enjoyed kedgeree , and most of all he enjoyed the fresh fish brought in by the landlady 's schoolboy son .
2 Conservative MP Keith Hampson expressed the view in 1977 that the new institutions had not been planned as part of an integrated post-school system , but by default .
3 But last night other umpires stressed that Oslear had not been sacked as chairman because of his battle to support Lamb .
4 In Scotia , which had not been mentioned as part of the Archbishop Adalbert 's spiritual kingdom , a few members of the Norman party left at short notice , to be more than replaced in the next week or two by friends and kinsmen who wanted their posts .
5 If the defect had been in a component of the toaster , say the heating element , the result would still be the same unless the heating element had not been supplied as part of the toaster ( e.g. had been bought as a replacement later ) .
6 When the NHS was founded , people were grateful to have access to free health care and accepted not being treated as equals .
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