Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [coord] it [was/were] not " in BNC.

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1 1754 In 1750 a shilling sterling was levied for each quarter land for building a dyke about the Church yard of Killarow but it was not yet finished .
2 1754 In 1750 a shilling sterling was levied for each quarter land for building a dyke about the Church yard of Killarow but it was not yet finished .
3 If you knew nothing about chocolate and it was not wrapped would you ever buy it ?
4 Held , ( 1 ) refusing to join B. as a party , that , since B. claimed no personal interest in the money in court and it was not suggested that the money belonged to the ousted regime , her only locus standi would be as a person entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia ; but that , on the evidence , B. had no recognition as a representative of the Republic in the United Kingdom ( post , pp. 749H — 750B ) .
5 Hearing a slight sound , a scraping noise through the wall , Alida , though she ignored it , stiffened her corseted thighs , Aunt Fosters , her mother 's last surviving sister , might have had the wit and grace to die in time but it was not a family trait .
6 At the start of the hearing he told the jury that no-one was on trial and it was not their job to blame anyone .
7 By mid February there were only two B.2s and one PR.3 on strength and it was not until the end of the year that B.2 strength reached a reasonable figure with 25 aircraft .
8 There was a place for tradition but it was not here .
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