Example sentences of "[noun] were not [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set . |
| 2 | Hard conditions were not necessarily a bar to enjoying hostel life as Martha Levy discovered : |
| 3 | The Ranger series of spacecraft for impacting the Moon were not entirely a success story ; but the soft landing Surveyors , which followed them , were . |
| 4 | Steve Knight , of Railnews , who proposed the motion , said consultants were not just a waste of money , but also a waste of time , a waste of resources and a drain on the whole of British industry . |
| 5 | Sir William Petty , writing at the end of the seventeenth century , argued that excessive morbidity and mortality rates were not only a human but an economic tragedy . |
| 6 | These developments were not simply a confrontation between Britain and Europe . |
| 7 | The knights of the eleventh century , not being socialised in the ‘ literate mentality ’ of these later historians , knew well enough that such institutions were not simply a ‘ neutral ’ bureaucracy guaranteeing the ‘ objectivity ’ of written documents , and they knew well enough , too , how these documents were untrustworthy . |
| 8 | ( Do remember , these chains were not really a penance , more a sharp rebuke to the pleasure-loving flesh and a curt reminder of vows taken . ) |
| 9 | Such activities were not just a waste of time which could be more usefully passed making profits for capitalists . |
| 10 | Almost immediately , the Ladies ' Association issued a strongly worded protest in The Daily News , signed by prominent figures like Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale , claiming that the acts were not only an attack on the civil liberties of all women but also implicated the state in sanctioning male vice . |
| 11 | Russia 's Poles were not necessarily a military asset . |
| 12 | What 'appened there on the first of June last year were n't just a tragedy , oh no . |