Example sentences of "it was not [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't unusual for human flesh to be the bait in an industry where million-pound budgets were on offer . |
| 2 | ( It was n't unknown for Hurt to go on four-day benders . ) |
| 3 | But most of all she loved the fact that it was n't full of sun-seeking OAPs on coach tours . |
| 4 | Sixteen per cent of the survivors on the ground were then killed by three other insect species and although mortality declined with distance from the mother tree , it was not due to host-specific predation . |
| 5 | The main reason for the first three failures to carry the Bill through Parliament was that the then Secretary of State for Education , George Kekewich , objected to the clauses in the Bill whereby it was not compulsory for local authorities to make any provision for the education of deaf children in their area . |
| 6 | Although Catholics in theory regarded poverty as a holy state , they recognized that too much of it was not conducive to spiritual contemplation . |
| 7 | The participants agreed a statement which stressed the " great potential " of political dialogue , and supported the current broad structure of the talks , but concluded " with regret that it was not possible in present circumstances to proceed to launch fresh substantive talks on the lines envisaged " . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , in the NSCLC meta-analysis , the evidence on quality of life is incomplete , partly because it was not available in individual trials . |
| 9 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
| 10 | Indeed , it was not uncommon for Irish abbots actually to have bishops under their jurisdiction . |
| 11 | French Aubusson and Savonnerie carpets of the 17th and 18th centuries , for example , followed the Baroque and Rococo elegance of the time with their bright colours and floral opulence , and it was not uncommon for 18th-century carpets to echo the ceiling designs of the rooms for which they were made . |
| 12 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
| 13 | It was not uncommon for German children to be taught in Polish , and there was a principle in Pomerania of bilingual education . |
| 14 | It was not uncommon for foreign representatives in Sweden to be given a quantity of copper , the only Swedish product for which there was a ready international market , which they could sell on their return home . |
| 15 | Margaret was at it really she said really it was not much for blind people |
| 16 | On the particular facts McCardie J found that the house and its contents were not free of tuberculosis bacilli and it was not fit for human habitation . |
| 17 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 18 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
| 19 | If it was not free from unwelcome intervention the papacy could not be active in what it saw as its role . |
| 20 | In the barony of Lewes it was not unknown for heritable copyholds to be entailed , to such an extent indeed that even though the common law harboured reservations as to its legality , the judges ‘ haue bene sparinge to deliuer their opinions because it concerned very many of the kinges subjectes ’ . |
| 21 | The Park had closed at 4.30 p.m. the previous day , the detectives learned , yet it was not unknown for nimble adolescents and desperate adults to gain access to the Parks from half-a-dozen possible places . |
| 22 | But it was not bereft of theological significance . |