Example sentences of "[pers pn] was not [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 2 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 3 | I was not surprised to learn that the shelling of our positions was not the German guns but the British guns ( the bastards ) . |
| 4 | I was not prepared to agree that Britain could be outvoted on any substantive issue of foreign policy . |
| 5 | Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it ! |
| 6 | ‘ Today I 'm able to square my profession with my religious beliefs , which I was n't able to do when I left acting , ’ he explains . |
| 7 | I was miserable with cold , but although I was prepared to admit that I was miserable , I was n't prepared to admit that my misery had any connection with cold . |
| 8 | Well , I was n't prepared to believe that my career would be over almost before it had started . |
| 9 | Because clearly in in debating this policy I think a number of the districts have also raised diff different points of interest in terms of what should be recognized as exceptional development and we we went down that that road a couple of years ago and unfortunately the districts came to the conclusion that it was n't appropriate to try and list the exceptional circumstances . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't tell you before , because I did n't want you thinking it was n't convenient to come and stay or something , darling ! ’ she 'd told her apologetically over coffee after lunch . |
| 11 | But , with the Government in turmoil and the crisis over the arms sales to Iraq adding to its troubles , it was n't difficult to see that Mr Lawrence was exactly where he wanted to be . |
| 12 | Just aft of the fire a small motorboat was still secured to its davits : it was n't difficult to guess that either the explosion or the fire had rendered it inoperable . |
| 13 | It was n't difficult to find and it was light and easy to fire , a woman 's gun . ’ |
| 14 | It was n't vital to come but I thought I ought to . |
| 15 | It was not surprising to learn that that was rather higher — 7 per cent . |
| 16 | It was not surprising to find that each part of the organisation had developed its own method of personnel operation and had created personnel systems to support these . |
| 17 | However , it was not easy to use and required a certain amount of both skill and effort to achieve decent results . |
| 18 | Lines were often cut by shell fire , and in repairing them it was not easy to know whether one was joining one 's own line or one of the enemy 's . |
| 19 | In the context of the present case , however , it was not necessary to determine whether there were any conceivable circumstances in which Community law might affect rules in that sphere laid down by a member state . |
| 20 | This overlooks the point that , since the decision of the House in Button and Swain it was not necessary to prove that the offence took place in public . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Second , we found that ill health was an important factor in the decision to retire early , although it was not possible to say whether or not it was the overriding factor . |
| 23 | Merkur Island were not parties to any contract for the supply of towage services , so it was not possible to say that the purpose of the action was to prevent the supply of services between an employer who was party to the dispute ( Merkur Island ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action related ( the tug owners ) . |
| 24 | The lawyer said that it was not possible to say that the young people had suffered any permanent effects as a result of their experience . |
| 25 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) remarked that O. spinea was similar to O. hamula but as few specimens of either had been collected it was not possible to judge if they were conspecific . |
| 26 | It was not possible to resell or rebottle hot whiskies . |
| 27 | Their father told them that as they were the only people present in the deserted station , it was not possible to see or hear such things . |
| 28 | It was not possible to ascertain if the son wanted to take over . |
| 29 | A control non-diabetic group was not recruited in this study so that it was not possible to determine whether the prevalence of hypertension in diabetics was greater than in non-diabetics . |
| 30 | It was not possible to determine if neither or both hypotheses contributed to adaptation . |