Example sentences of "was not a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals were rational , and war was not a rational tool of foreign policy , since it could no longer be used to achieve the goals traditionally associated with it . |
| 2 | Ron McGregor , a junior officer with me on Vincent was not a regular Commander of the new Vigilant . |
| 3 | The sugar plantations and the slaves on them were the first British overseas investment of any size , at a time when investment of this sort was unusual , and in several eighteenth-century wars the British fought to defend this property , though it was not a central cause of any of the wars in which they were involved . |
| 4 | While praising the work of bodies like the National Trust for Scotland and Historic Scotland , he said the notion that a simple sign was not a serious way of dealing with history had to be discarded . |
| 5 | But equally , MDC in its first eight years was not a major generator of jobs — and the individual cost of those created was extremely high . |
| 6 | Broadcasting was not a major issue of the — relatively brief — presidential election campaign that followed ; but television played an important role . |
| 7 | Knowledge was not a womanly way of life . |
| 8 | It may be argued that this was not a new concept of the basic function of monarchy ; perhaps so . |
| 9 | The end product of psychedelia was not a new way of looking at the world and a liberation of the mind , but rather a lot of shit concept albums in the 1970s and an inaccurate belief on the part of pop stars that they were somehow important . |
| 10 | The patchwork quilt of administrative decision-making powers reinforced the idea that this was not a new system of law in the making and the formalism of normativism led to the idea that to the extent that we had administrative law , the subject consisted wholly or mainly of delegated legislation and administrative adjudication ; that is , the forms of administrative action classifiable in terms of a conception of a formal separation of powers . |
| 11 | Gertler ( 1988 ) concluded that the motor industry model had over-influenced academic writing and that the ‘ post-Fordist vision ’ was not a new era of production but the ‘ intensification and development of historical trends established long ago ’ ( Gertler , 1988 , 430 ) . |
| 12 | Fisher 's study also suggested that recall was not a good measure of whether a road sign had been heeded . |
| 13 | He told me that this was not a good time of the year to see Riga . |
| 14 | Michael Foot was not a good Leader of the Opposition . |
| 15 | Mr Davies said that Mr Venables was not a frequent user of drugs , but to his knowledge he had taken LSD , ecstasy and amphetamines . |
| 16 | The cyclic model of development was intended to thwart the transmutationists , but was not a mere product of Owen 's and Miller 's imaginations . |
| 17 | His misfortune was that Charles was not a traditional Prince of Wales . |
| 18 | Obviously uncertain as to his own musical direction , Moore recorded with Lizzy , but was not a full-time member of the band , which at the time featured Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham . |
| 19 | Peters ' article on Bedouin families contains information about who lived in particular camps , leading him to suggest that ‘ the core ’ of a camp was not a male head of tent-hold , but his mother ( Peters , 1965 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I did not get the impression they were reaching out for help , there was not a general mood of crisis . ’ |
| 21 | As soon as they began to talk , you realised that this was not a diffuse collection of misfits , suitable cases for treatment or counselling . |
| 22 | There was not a great deal of transatlantic cruising in those days , but whenever a yacht did sail into the harbour Peter rowed over and introduced himself . |
| 23 | ‘ They need to find themselves a decent bloke , ’ said William 's nan once , presumably meaning four decent blokes as she was not a great advocate of polygamy . |
| 24 | And there was not a great lot of the clover seeded about until they started with this wild white clover . |
| 25 | He concluded , however , that it was not a necessary precondition of a restitutionary order under section 6(2) or of a remedial order under section 61(1) that the person against whom the order was made , whether the contravener or the person ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the contravention , should have received the money or property ordered to be restored to the investor . |
| 26 | It was not a twenty-year period of formal civil conflict . |
| 27 | Carol Gilligan 's research , which focused on the distinctively female moral dilemma of an abortion-decision , suggested that what was emerging here was not a moral deficiency of women but a ‘ different voice ’ on morality . |
| 28 | ‘ That was not a simple case of a husband obtaining a document from his wife ; it was also a case where the document had been obtained by a trustee from his cestui que trust by means of pressure and the concealment of material facts … |
| 29 | Thus for many students , choosing science was not a simple matter of inclination or ability : many felt happy and at ease with both areas . |
| 30 | It was not a simple matter of carrying out fieldwork , thinking about the results , publishing them , and waiting for peer review to ensure the next research grant . |