Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] not [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prolonged temper tantrums were not part of his personality . |
| 2 | His lips were not steel , but silk . |
| 3 | The proper term for the remedy was not actio , which was the term of the ordinary procedure , but persecutio ( or petitio ) . |
| 4 | Her role in the production of the various Beeton journals is not self-evident in their pages , since a public persona was not part of her style . |
| 5 | For this disanalogy arose from another : Darwin 's natural selection as a lawn process was complex , being compounded from heredity , variation and superfecundity , each of those processes having its own laws ; while Newton 's gravitational force was not compound and had a single law of its own . |
| 6 | The survey , conducted by IBM and London Business School , also discovered that the main obstacle to progress for manufacturers was not government policies or interest rates but the ability to implement change quickly . |
| 7 | Accordingly , the action against the manufacturers was not time barred . |
| 8 | The suture marks show the closure was not tension free . |
| 9 | In France the same ingredients of spectacle , song , dance , and instrumental music were likewise compounded under the influence of a humanist ‘ academy ’ , Bälf 's , but in different proportions so that the result was not opera but ballet de cour . |
| 10 | According to information received by one of the councillors who contacted your office by phone the re-siting of the seat was not part of the contract . |
| 11 | A Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman said on July 6 , however , that Pakistan was not party to any attempt to evade export controls . |
| 12 | The appellants submitted that reimbursement of their outlays was not part of the consideration for their services , but the court did not accept that argument . |
| 13 | What she felt for David was not love but gratitude , with maybe a scattering of affection . |
| 14 | To him the light was not kind . |
| 15 | Do you think that the ocean , which swells and struggles , Would be happy to open its mouth day and night , To breathe into the void a vapour of noise , And that it would roar , beneath the hurricane above , If its roaring was not speech ? |
| 16 | USL says Univel 's UnixWare was not part of the deal because China 's network market is not sophisticated enough to justify its presence . |
| 17 | The killer was not starvation , but typhus which spread quickly in the overcrowded and insanitary conditions . |
| 18 | The defendants tried to prove that Umkhonto we Sizwe was not part of the ANC . |
| 19 | A police spokesman said last night that Mr Kelsey 's condition was not life threatening and he was likely to be discharged from hospital today . |
| 20 | The matter of paying rent , rates , bills of any sort , or taking a child to dentist or doctor , or when need be , to the school in order to enquire into the progress ( or otherwise ) of his offspring were not part of his world . |
| 21 | In the second half of 1848 the Prussian ambassador was reporting to Berlin that St Petersburg 's main concerns were not revolution but a cholera epidemic , the expectation of a poor harvest and a shortage of cash . |
| 22 | Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway . |
| 23 | A voidable transfer was not part of the ‘ assumed facts ’ on which the ratio was based . |
| 24 | Of the other Iberian kingdoms , Léon was not subject to Rome , but the marriage of Alfonso IX of Léon to a daughter of Sancho I of Portugal threatened the security of the king of Castile , who obliged Alfonso to separate and to take a Castilian princess , Berengaria , instead . |
| 25 | Lord Hailsham said the test was not culpability , callousness , self-indulgent indifference or failure of parental duty , but was the test of reasonableness in all the circumstances . |
| 26 | As regards the claim in respect of additional lighting , he said that Wimpy International v Warland had decided that lighting that did no more than provide general illumination was not plant , as it was not used for carrying on the business . |
| 27 | It was held that the seller 's acknowledgment of the existence of the sub-sale was not assent such as to defeat his lien . |
| 28 | Conversely , all but three of those who read a small amount or no SF ( 14 in all ) , asserted that the passage was not SF . |
| 29 | Some reports suggested a death toll as high as 150-200 in Mali and perhaps twice that number in Niger , in what was increasingly described as a separatist rebellion , although other reports suggested that in Mali at least the objective of anti-government elements was not independence for the north-east but the overthrow of the government in Bamako . |
| 30 | The contribution to 1992 Group results by UOGL was not material . |