Example sentences of "it [was/were] not a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way . |
| 2 | It was n't a tackle but a two-footed jump at him . |
| 3 | It was n't a man that tore up this ground . " |
| 4 | It was n't a story that put anyone in a good light . |
| 5 | The problem was that determination seemed to be all that she now had left , and it was n't a currency that was likely to get her any further . |
| 6 | It was n't a hoax because there were people asleep near the spot . |
| 7 | It was n't a vision or a psychic experience or a message from above . |
| 8 | It was n't a fortune but was enough to help me buy my first flat and first TV . |
| 9 | It was n't a date or anything — he just came to take me there . |
| 10 | It was n't a hardship because good teaching is theatre . |
| 11 | And he got this he got a ca no it was n't a cane but it was a quite a big stick . |
| 12 | It was n't a knife and fork effort at all . |
| 13 | ’ It was n't a question but it sounded like one . |
| 14 | Or it was n't a sadness that hurt , not an all-through one . |
| 15 | It was n't a feeling that she liked . |
| 16 | It was n't a time that I would , it er when I |
| 17 | IT WAS N'T a record but that grand Heriot 's FP hooker of yesteryear , Bob Tollervey , who was 16 times reserve for Scotland without ever winning a cap , could be excused for feeling that he was born at the wrong time . |
| 18 | It would seem that we now have four hundred thousand pounds available that was n't apparent before , and that 's come from the Department of the Environment , and that is enough for me to say well , we 've got something out of it , it was n't a fiasco or a waste of time and now I can rejoin the Conservative group with some degree of credibility . |
| 19 | And although women were n't provided — it was n't a brothel or anything — you could bring them in if they were good fun , and if they stayed over , a blind eye was turned . |
| 20 | Well in those days beastlings was a lux it was n't a luxury because you could get it for nothing . |
| 21 | ‘ It was n't a hang-on or hang-in performance and it bears out what I say about an improvement here . ’ |
| 22 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 23 | In a way , it was n't a gamble as he was relatively young at 26 , and it was n't going to cost us a great deal . |
| 24 | On checking further with the European Union , I do n't take anything for granted , not even what MPs say , er , it turned out that it was n't a directive and that the Government had freedom of choice , whether it imposes it or not . |
| 25 | It was n't a suggestion but a statement of fact , and privately Robbie decided he must know some very unpleasant women . |
| 26 | It was n't a view that sat easily with the Dwarf s student orientation as the autumn and the new student academic year approached . |
| 27 | Life in a little Norfolk village was hardly riveting , so perhaps that was it , only it was n't an explanation that satisfied her . |
| 28 | It was not a coincidence that Tom Taylor , later to become a Labour peer and the principal author of another report , was one of the newly appointed members of the Commission . |
| 29 | The equally earnest Anglo-French Declaration of 1918 promising the Arabs of former Ottoman colonies their independence if they supported the Allies against the Turks fell into much the same category , although it was not a promise that was intended to be kept . |
| 30 | It has been said that ‘ when O'Reilly appealed it was not a request but a demand for the blood of the victim . ’ |