Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [conj] it [was/were] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , Bella 's home-help came out of the bungalow and it was no use any more trying to pretend that it was n't happening … . |
| 2 | It was no doubt less advanced in its industrial organisation than Lancashire , where the last of the surviving handloom weavers were absorbed into other employment in the 1850s , but it would be unrealistic to claim that it was not industrial . |
| 3 | Whether or not that was the intent of the regulations — and I am willing to believe that it was not the Minister 's intent — that has been the net effect of the way in which the three-week period was cut off due to the way that the regulations were tabled . |
| 4 | Second , sealing the border with Serbia would be unlikely to work if it were not accompanied by the simultaneous sealing of the border with Croatia : the Bosnian Serbs , already talking to the Croats about a confederal division of the spoils ( see page 46 ) , would get their supplies from Croatia , and the Croats — never mind their signatures on the Vance-Owen plan — would anyway continue their military campaign for territory . |
| 5 | She 's one of several who 'd be unable to study if it were n't for the nursery . |
| 6 | Smoke was curling up from the chimney , but Virginia was thankful to note that it was n't coloured . |
| 7 | Once a man knows of his right it is more difficult to say that it was not reasonably practicable to give notice within a reasonable time . |
| 8 | A buyer who has taken the formal step of signing a document will therefore find it difficult to show that it was not a contractual document . |
| 9 | It had only been her bank book , and Edward had been quite right to say that it was not worth reading . |
| 10 | Jim was keen to impress that it was not a scale model of anything but a real small narrow gauge locomotive in its own right . |
| 11 | However it was a question of fact for the Crown Court , which was entitled to find that it was not so practicable . |
| 12 | In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff . |
| 13 | He was entitled to say that it was not . |