Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [prep] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx 's abstractions were not of such an order , rather his abstractions were concrete historical ones . |
| 2 | Personally I liked it , but felt it was not worth all the publicity I had helped create for it . |
| 3 | The home was not for most a country house or a cottage , but a town villa or tenement . |
| 4 | It was not at all the response she wanted , but Mrs Browning was again in full flow . |
| 5 | It hurt , they did n't feel anything much about it , and it was not at all the way they had thought it would be . |
| 6 | ‘ They would never have dared to do this here if our country was not in such a mess at present , ’ an Italian security source said after the murder , referring to country 's the growing political crisis . |
| 7 | The time together was n't at all the funeral wake it might have been . |
| 8 | No , no oh I agree people should n't let dogs foul on the pavement and in shopping places and things , cos it can be dangerous , but out in the woodlands if it was n't for all the animals we would n't have any green stuff , trees and bushes seagulls are up . |
| 9 | It was n't with such a Sunday that he made the most significant comparison , however , but with the Sundays of his childhood . |
| 10 | It was n't until half an hour later that I realised I was on C1 . |