Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [coord] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The financial constraints were initially rather phantom-like ( in the first year , for example , there was prolonged and somewhat inconclusive discussion with the Ministry about the budget and it was not finally authorised until the financial year was over ! ) , but the physical constraints were none the less effective in limiting the industry 's expenditure . |
| 2 | Instead of sending in his officers to haul out the occupiers , Alderson argued that this was a civil issue , there had been no breach of the peace and it was not his job to suppress dissent . |
| 3 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 4 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 5 | Only through Cunhaval was she aware of life in the forest and it was not a life-form that encouraged them to slow down and set a trap . |
| 6 | And when he sagged and said he 'd had enough of the place and it was not what he had thought it would be , she said life never was and that if he wanted to stay in Fleet Street he would be foolish to leave without a new job to go to . |
| 7 | He had banged his glass on the table and it was not for her to disobey . |
| 8 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 9 | If you have , for example , never been a telephone subscriber before ( that is , even if you have had communal use of a telephone but it was not in your name ) you will have to pay a new subscriber charge plus a connection charge . |
| 10 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 11 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 12 | Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war . |
| 13 | General MacArthur did not regard the deployment of American troops in Korea as a priority and it was not until 8 September that the forces led by General John R. Hodge began the task of occupation . |
| 14 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 15 | He had problems forming an administration and it was not until 1st July that he was able to tell the Queen of his main ministerial appointments . |
| 16 | I would go further I am not sure whether my Hon. Friends presented such an amendment but it was not called and ask that such a consultative committee comprise a large number of women bus users . |