Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [prep] [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 2 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 3 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 4 | Although Bagnold ( 1941 ) suggested that wind blown sands , which deviated from log-normality , might have some other probability function , it was not until recently that his suggested log-hyperbolic distribution has been closely examined as an alternative ( Barndorff-Nielsen , 1977 ; Bagnold & Barndorff-Nielsen , 1980 ; Wyrwoll & smyth , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |