Example sentences of "[noun prp] was not [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed . |
| 2 | Inside the ring of mountains Wordsworth was not as isolated from industrial activities as some people like to think : a valley forge , driven by water power , ‘ thumps ’ in the closing lines of An Evening Walk , among other ‘ natural ’ noises of Lakeland midnight — but this may be considered unusual , and the image may in fact be borrowed from Gray . |
| 3 | A chef in the professional sense of the word is just exactly what Boulestin was not and certainly did not pretend to be . |
| 4 | Oliver was not and the packed bag loomed large in her mind . |
| 5 | So , and certainly Mao was not that out of line with the left of the Kuomintang at that time . |
| 6 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 7 | The issue in Gallagher was not whether an appellant could raise a non-certified point but whether the House itself could depart from the certified question and address what it took to be the true question arising . |
| 8 | As regards tragedy , spiritually the city 's focal point , Euripides was not and could not be a spiritual guide as Aeschylus had once been , although the need was , no doubt , greater than in Aeschylus ' time . |
| 9 | Richard Duke of York was not as Anne had recalled him . |
| 10 | Few believed that war could now be prevented , and hardly anyone understood that the real issue in Moscow was not whether Britain and Russia could prevent war by agreeing on a joint policy of resistance , but whether Stalin could be persuaded not to make a separate peace with Hitler . |
| 11 | that the outcry which followed Morgan was not because the House of Lords had changed the law but because the public mistakenly thought it had done so . |