Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Party conferences were not just piss and wind ; among the 7,000 pilgrims there were not a few for whom the hotel bedrooms of Brighton were the promised land , a weakness shared by some Tribunes of the People . |
| 2 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 3 | An Anglo-Catholic priest helped me accept the desert experiences of prayer — no-one had ever told me , after an experience of personal renewal , to expect the stripping and refining that was not a falling from grace but a growth in it . |
| 4 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
| 5 | He was n't a natural at all . |