Example sentences of "[pers pn] was not that [pron] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calculations would seem a lunatic fantasy if it was n't that they were produced by an organization which then occupied the centre stage of British energy policy . |
| 2 | It was n't that they were prudish , I could tell they 'd heard it before . |
| 3 | It was n't that they were particularly good or , come to that , that Hartlepool were too bad . |
| 4 | It was not that they were there as a punishment , just that the cellar was their living room ( a common arrangement in the back-to-backs of Bradford where most Asian families live ) . |
| 5 | When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so . |
| 6 | It was not that they were insensitive or evil men . |