Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ’ 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 . |
| 4 | The horizon of Englishmen in their daily life and work was not the open fields but the sky-line of rooftops and chimney-stacks . |
| 5 | " Now " was 1824 and Place was not the only witness before a select committee in that year to make this point . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The shifting consensus of church and state was not the major feature of the period . |
| 8 | But murder was not the right term . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The corridor and all of the cells had been recently painted , but gaiety was n't the theme around here . |
| 12 | But familiarity was not the only factor . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But death was not the only reason for lack of memories . |