Example sentences of "[was/were] not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I envied them their sexual freedom and their self-assured dignity , and I despised the British vice squads that ran them in and were not above enjoying their charms for a consideration . |
| 2 | Some dealers and collectors were not above altering or even removing the genuine patina and treating the surface to give the appearance they felt it should have had . |
| 3 | There was no apparent reason to administer the drug , although the quantities involved were not above the legal limits . |
| 4 | There were still rumours that the Caldecott business methods were not above suspicion , but he became part of the establishment . |
| 5 | Presentations to livings could be made by totally unworthy patrons , often crooks and loose-livers who were not above putting in incumbents almost as bad as themselves . |
| 6 | The new men of the Kremlin were not above the simplicity of taking a former idea and adapting it to their needs . |
| 7 | Despite the hard line taken by the press about the rapists , they were not above sexualising the raped girls . |
| 8 | I guess it was like the primitive interrogation techniques both malais and FAKINTIL were not above resorting to : you could see the stratagem but that did n't stop it from being effective . |
| 9 | And , in part , their power came from an understanding that they were not as other men . |
| 10 | Mm , the visions that they had were not as reality they were only like visions they had |
| 11 | But the messages of her paintings to his paintings were not about domestication . |
| 12 | There were essential differences between them , so that arguments between splitters and lumpers were not about convenience , but about truth . |
| 13 | Those of them which were not about the Englishman 's standard of living ( no peasant wooden shoes and no Irish potatoes ) were shared by many of the " middling people " ; these were the issues and they were more important than any lingering popular Jacobitism , although that sentiment certainly existed . |
| 14 | Of his study visits to pre-war Vienna , his strongest memories were not of virtuosos but of composers conducting , notably Richard Strauss directing his operas and Anton Webern the symphonies of Mahler . |
| 15 | For one of so gentle a character he could be extraordinarily defiant of gamekeepers , and threatening letters to my father passed on to him with added threats were not of the slightest avail . |
| 16 | The fact was that Churchill and Eden were not of like minds and did not associate closely until Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 . |
| 17 | The striking thing was that like the golden ball Mungo had found at the barrow , these were not of modern design . |
| 18 | Carter had not meant to kill his wife , and the intention was only to strike her ; the terrible and unfortunate consequences were not of his design . |
| 19 | As mentioned in chapter 2 , we are indebted to the Egyptians for our present division of the day into twenty-four hours , although the Egyptian hours were not of equal length , since at all times of the year the periods of daylight and darkness were each divided into twelve hours . |
| 20 | ‘ I have to admit , ’ he began , speaking quite slowly , ‘ that my early years at secondary school were not of the happiest . |
| 21 | These Dutch cattle were not of the Friesian type but an old type which was devastated by cattle plague in the Netherlands in 1745 . |
| 22 | The tokens were not of bondage , no one was trying to trap me , to possess me , to take me over . |
| 23 | These were not of the best quality ; lighting in the first instance was oil , then gas , but on the introduction of electrically lit stock , the batteries were always run down or low in the winter , and described by one wag , a regular user of the service , as reminiscent of ‘ a red hot hairpit ’ . |
| 24 | Adult deaf activities were not of course confined to sports . |
| 25 | Marx 's abstractions were not of such an order , rather his abstractions were concrete historical ones . |
| 26 | But their parents were not of European origin . |
| 27 | The lower classes were not of course alone in making a habit of over-indebtedness , nor indeed were the middle classes . |
| 28 | The argument was that some candidates , particularly from the emergent Labour Party , were not of independent means and would be otherwise unable to serve if they were elected ( the first Labour MPs had appeared in 1906 ) . |
| 29 | The documents were not of earth-shattering significance in themselves , but would help business . |
| 30 | It was noticeable that the two pictures which took pride of place on Diana 's bedside dressing-table were not of her family but of her favourite hamsters , Little Black Muff and Little Black Puff . |