Example sentences of "it [was/were] not [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it were n't bad Friday but it 's come on again now |
| 2 | He did n't know what it was , but now it was n't small talk and he was n't just ticking over any more . |
| 3 | It was n't congenital stupidity that had made him susceptible to human jurisdiction , it was anguish . |
| 4 | It was n't Ziggy Stardust and the reviews became very mixed . |
| 5 | It was n't real muslin but she made it out of this material . |
| 6 | And erm it was erm like silky material so it looked really , it , it was n't chiffon it was erm no it was sort of satiny silky , it was n't real silk but it was like shiny stuff , and it sort of went in , in and it went a V down there and then it like flowed down and it was very short and because it was a si but it d it was n't tight , I mean it sort of clung , it showed her waist but it did n't , you know , it exaggerated her waist but it did n't like it did n't cling anywhere else really and it just looked quite , it was flowing and it was , it was really smart and it was , I , the sort of erm the material would be erm sort of almost like und er like my pyjamas that , it was that in black kind of halfy satiny silky stuff . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to convince him that it was n't that mob that took a shot at him . ’ |
| 8 | Was n't , it was n't that supplier than went bankrupt , that was another case . |
| 9 | I 've got ta well it was n't kinky underwear but it 's underwear . |
| 10 | As I say it , it was a good structure , very , very er very relaxed , very good , good communication , it was n't one way or the other . |
| 11 | It was n't Wee Charlie though , the body was far too big . |
| 12 | I lost a pad somewhere the other week with some It was n't important notes but some notes in . |
| 13 | So assuming it was n't bad manners or simply an oversight , you must have had a reason . ’ |
| 14 | But it was too th the , the language on it was n't , it was n't bad language but it |
| 15 | It was n't classical music that brought him his widest audience , but musicals like ‘ On the Town ’ , ‘ Candide ’ and ‘ West Side Story ’ . |
| 16 | And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was |
| 17 | But it was n't those balls that were important to me , and timid undemanding Jenny could n't compete with Liza 's inspired experimentation , nor a damp drab flop on the Iffley Road with the joss-stick-scented nest lined with Liza 's fauvist daubs where she and I lay after our bouts of dirty love , toking and talking , turning the world inside out . |
| 18 | We shouted but what with the noise of the water and not knowing their language of course it was n't any use and then we were in the water . |
| 19 | It was n't sexual jealousy that was afflicting her this time , for it was obvious that the woman was just a good friend . |
| 20 | But it was not such language that captured the imagination of the world . |
| 21 | After all that , they did n't tell me what I had , except that it was not multiple sclerosis and that I was an atypical case . |
| 22 | But it was not economic distress that precipitated the present crisis . |
| 23 | Scott J concluded that if this were a case in which there was any question or threat of general disclosure by the defendant of confidential information concerning the way in which the plaintiff carried on its business or concerning any details of the affairs of any of its clients there would be no answer to the claim for an injunction ; but it was not general disclosure that the defendant had in mind . |
| 24 | Charles III 's minister , Floridablanca , believed good government would solve the colonial problem ; this was a profound misconception , inherited by Spanish liberalism , for it was not mal gobierno that the creoles rejected but government by peninsulares ( peninsular Spaniards ) as such . |
| 25 | The area that is modern France displayed within its boundaries a great variation on the Romanesque architectural theme , since it was not one nation but a number of states whose buildings were influenced by climate , materials and purpose . |
| 26 | It was not two days since the Duchess had issued instructions that no more tickets were to be given away , but it was hardly likely that such a prohibition would apply to Lord John Rossendale whose mother was an intimate friend of the Duchess of Richmond . |
| 27 | Knowing the father 's case , the doctors were well enough aware that it was not mere instability that was wrong with the son . |
| 28 | And they had come to the conclusion that it was not American slate cos there were no quarries in that time . |
| 29 | It was not plain sailing and orthodox and ‘ liberal ’ Communists will be at each others ' throats — at local level — until they hold a full congress next January to determine new policies once and for all and to approve new leaders . |
| 30 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |