Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] not [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I even remember it was a Sunday and thinking that this was not day to be flying your last mission . |
| 2 | But this was not racism , because there are ‘ reasons ’ for the non-recruitment . |
| 3 | Perhaps this was not evolution but revolution . |
| 4 | This was not hype but hwyl . |
| 5 | This was not life ! |
| 6 | Mr Dewar said he abhorred the thought of civil disobedience adding he had been assured by Scotland United members that this was not part of their strategy . |
| 7 | This was not part of the display , i hasten to add ! |
| 8 | The laughter swelled , and was supplemented by applause , which died away slowly as the crowd gradually realized that this was not part of the act . |
| 9 | This was not insecurity , it was a world of pleasing affectionate options . |
| 10 | This was not altruism on the part of the brewers , but was born out of a realisation that preserving the best of their heritage could make them money . |
| 11 | This was not percipience in my mother , but a belated riposte to my revelation , the day before , of the role of the chrysanthemum in foreign culture . |
| 12 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 13 | She would as often as not weep during the song , and these were not glycerine tears , and they were not , except in the later years , produced to order . |
| 14 | ‘ These were not traffic police . ’ |
| 15 | Galjart argues that , despite the successes of the Brazilian peasant leagues and rural syndicates , these were not class movements , but ‘ followings ’ of an innovative patron . |
| 16 | These were not shire levies but professional soldiers who acted as the sheriff 's posse in the pursuit of criminals . |
| 17 | Brian Pritchard , chairman , insisted that all was not gloom and doom , pointing to the success of West Venture Development , the group 's Southern Californian subsidiary , which this year is expected to double its output to about 500 homes . |
| 18 | The interesting people you wanted to be with — their minds were unusual , you saw things freshly with them and all was not deadness and repetition . |
| 19 | That was not boy 's cake ! |
| 20 | That was not love . |
| 21 | That was not indexation but a recognition of the fact that , if an exemption is to be made , it should be at a sensible and workable level . |
| 22 | Under Lynch that was not part of the regime , which is regarded as a curious omission in most gyms , and it did not work for Benn . |
| 23 | Under Lynch that was not part of the regime , which is regarded as a curious omission in most gyms , and it did not work for Benn . |
| 24 | That was not game , set and match for Britain ; it was a lousy piece of negotiation which left Britain on the sidelines of Europe . |
| 25 | It does not lay an adequate foundation for a claim that , even if the solicitors did so advise , that was not advice which a competent solicitor could reasonably have given . |
| 26 | But it was a wife 's duty to obey her husband in all that was not sin . |
| 27 | If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism . |