Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] was [not/n't] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss of employment as the result of an uninvestigated charge of neglect of duty or malversation was not the only threat hanging over the head of an officer of the revenue . |
| 2 | The implication is that industrialisation was not the planned result of a dynamic , forward-thinking group but a reaction to a crisis ( Chilcote and Edelstein 1974 ) . |
| 3 | We know that Champagne was not the first sparkling wine : references in the Bible like ‘ wine … when it moveth itself ’ ( Proverbs 23:31 ) and ‘ Neither do men put new wine into old bottles ; else the bottles break ’ ( Matthew 9:17 ) confirm the existence of sparkling wine long before viticulture was even introduced to the Champagne region . |
| 4 | Comparisons with other economies suggest that stop/go was not the problem , rather it was the weakness of the underlying trend of growth which exaggerated the effect of stop/go phases [ Artis , 1972 ; Dow , 1964 ; Matthews , 1968 ] . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 6 | Maurice Raynal , although less extreme and volatile in his thought than Apollinaire , adopted much the same idealist view while realizing that abstraction was not the end or goal of Cubist painting . |
| 7 | The point about his vulnerability over his son was not mentioned specifically ; but they learned that in fact that youth was not the only hostage , for Edward had subsequently demanded that a selection of the citizenry be yielded up also , including some mere children . |
| 8 | Although the Utting report , which was published in the summer , made it clear that training was not the central issue in such cases , I am not arguing that professionalism is not important . |
| 9 | The growing recognition that advertising was not the only thing that affected sales began to raise doubts as to whether sales measurement was an adequate guide to advertising 's success or failure . |
| 10 | Miss D'Arcy might be a young woman with a remarkable inheritance , but there were others , and money was not the sole factor at moments such as this . |
| 11 | ’ The picture and story was not the only interest from the Standard because , encouraged by her admirer , Tim Cooper , we had sent a letter to Nigella Lawson . |
| 12 | The horizon of Englishmen in their daily life and work was not the open fields but the sky-line of rooftops and chimney-stacks . |
| 13 | " Now " was 1824 and Place was not the only witness before a select committee in that year to make this point . |
| 14 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |
| 15 | The shifting consensus of church and state was not the major feature of the period . |
| 16 | ‘ Everybody is busy with this and that — as if food was n't the most important thing ! ’ |
| 17 | Even if cosy was n't the word she would have applied to the conservatory opening out before her she could see it was a little more intimate than the vast medieval refectory in which they 'd previously dined . |
| 18 | But murder was not the right term . |
| 19 | Throughout the years when he was living in London , Le Queux , together with his friend George R. Sims [ q.v. ] , attended every murder trial of note , but crime was not the only interest that attracted his attention . |
| 20 | The unfavourable reception of Impressionism by the French critics is notorious ; but Impressionism was not the only group to gain a name from a review — the Fauves and Cubism share this . |
| 21 | The corridor and all of the cells had been recently painted , but gaiety was n't the theme around here . |
| 22 | But familiarity was not the only factor . |
| 23 | But revenge was not the whole motive : without it , the joke might have been cheaper , less elaborate , of a different kind — but there would probably have been a joke of some kind . |
| 24 | But death was not the only reason for lack of memories . |
| 25 | Not even that low humming sound which I knew sure as hell was n't the thermostat on the fridge . |