Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [not/n't] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They held that the architect 's giving of an interim certificate was not the decision of a dispute between the plaintiff and his builders and that there would need to be a dispute for the architect to qualify as an arbitrator : see Lord Reid at [ 1974 ] AC 737 H. ( For a discussion of the difference between experts and certifiers in construction contracts , see 7.4.2 . ) |
| 2 | Nevertheless , administrative change was not the main reason for the decline of the networks in the Southern Band . |
| 3 | And the brown part was n't the earth , but thousands and thousands of baby gulls , packed so tight you could n't see the grass under them ! |
| 4 | Seen in this light de-industrialisation was not the onset of a foreign disease but the unavoidable expiation of past neglect . |
| 5 | Direct rule was not the only way Europeans exercised political power overseas . |
| 6 | What eventually emerged from Labour 's contemplation of the entrails of defeat was an increasingly widespread belief — not , until recently , much shared on the left — that public ownership was not the essence of Labour 's case , but that equality was . |
| 7 | The old gentleman was not the only one who started shouting . |
| 8 | Of the remaining three , George Canning , the future prime minister , was only briefly ambassador in Lisbon in 1814 – 15 , when his political career at home was at a low ebb ; and the two others , Robert Liston and Stratford Canning , represented Britain in Constantinople , a very important post but one in which high social rank was not the advantage it was in the other great capitals . |
| 9 | In any case the old man was n't the sort to let you take a close look at anything that did n't directly concern you . ’ |
| 10 | She must not forget the other reason why she had wished to find work here , and exile from her old life was not the main one for her presence in Vetch Street . |
| 11 | It was then they realised that the German target was not the bridge but the warships in the Firth of Forth . |
| 12 | This transformation in sexual regulation was not the product of some internal dynamic in the technologies of power . |
| 13 | Its overall deficit was not the result of a trade deficit ( merchandise trade showed a surplus of $70 billion over the years 1950–67 ) . |
| 14 | The major reason for limited liability was not the desire of business firms to expand but the need to find relatively safe investments for the funds of small savers . |
| 15 | An elective despotism was not the government we fought for ; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies or magistracies , as that no one could transcend their legal limits , without being effectually checked and restrained by the others . " |
| 16 | So he , too , realised that the real trap was not the locked door . |
| 17 | The class of people for whom this may have been of paramount importance was not the traditional aristocracy which had never been involved in work , having merely inherited their estates , but those termed the nouveaux riches , the use of which term implies a much more direct involvement in the work process as the basis for capital accumulation . |
| 18 | This evolutionary development was not the result of the growing significance of natural rights doctrines . |
| 19 | Even after one brief meeting she knew that Rohan 's future wife was n't the type to creep tamely away to avoid discovery . |
| 20 | He hoped that an early frost was not the sign of a hard winter . |
| 21 | According to Ācārya Kripalani the Rāma invoked by Gandhi with his dying breath was not the historical Rāma or the mythological Rāma , but rather the highest Self . |
| 22 | The crucial stage was not the introduction of the project but its establishment once these strains began to tell . |
| 23 | But failure to use the time-honoured formula was not the only difficulty ; defects of another kind could arise , where , for example , the testator had failed to make clear the content of his disposition . |
| 24 | This was based upon their assumption that how that eighty percent of the land was owned by ten percent of the population which in actual fact was n't the case . |
| 25 | For him , the worst possible outcome was not the one feared by republicans and dutifully recorded in his memoirs — a coup followed by a protracted civil war between the army and a communist-led Popular Front . |
| 26 | The golden age of Ragusan literature was not the only manifestation of Dalmatian literary energy in the seventeenth century . |
| 27 | Unlike most of his contemporaries , Darwin realized that the human race was not the predictable end-product of a universal progressive trend . |
| 28 | Natural selection was not the only scientific manifestation of this spirit , but Darwinism supplied useful catch-phrases such as ‘ the survival of the fittest ’ , which could be used by those seeking a scientific justification for their indifference to the losers in Nature 's great race . |
| 29 | In any case , human activity was not the only factor in the observances . |
| 30 | As one might expect , given the two-sided nature of the debate and the legislation that grew out of it , his closing speech was not the singularly ‘ permissive ’ one some might have expected : |