Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either that Sardinian 's being there was coincidence or it was n't — and , for goodness ' sake , if it was n't — |
| 2 | And if you did n't want to do national curriculum levels or it was n't appropriate then you could continue your staff comment now or you could draw a wee picture there or something like that , you know ? |
| 3 | Either it was or it was n't . |
| 4 | Or it was n't a sadness that hurt , not an all-through one . |
| 5 | Or it was n't completely his fault . |
| 6 | When it became obvious that the strike was n't going to last a fortnight or it was n't going to last a month . |
| 7 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 8 | Adherence to this stated principle has never faltered , but other areas of concern took precedence and it was not until the late 1970s that this area of work was developed . |
| 9 | Mrs Doran just smiled — and it was not a pleasant smile . |
| 10 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 11 | When Eliot in 1928 , loyally reciprocating services rendered , edited Pound 's Selected Poems , he insisted on excluding the propertius poem , and it was not until 1932 that Basil Bunting wrote , already retrospectively , ‘ In my considered opinion , ‘ Propertius ’ was the most important poem of our times , surpassing alike ‘ Mauberley ’ and ‘ The Waste Land ’ . ’ |
| 12 | And it was not all deep depression yesterday , with the likes of Boots and Morgan Grenfell in fine form . |
| 13 | He came to a decision to which on the evidence before him he was entitled to come , and it was not a decision with which the court could properly interfere . |
| 14 | Dr Booth was admittedly ‘ horrified by the amount of fat it carried ’ and it was not until he saw wild boar in a wild life park in France that he realised the opportunities . |
| 15 | SHEFFIELD EAGLES were doubtless declaring themselves unofficial world club champions last night — and it was not the Stones Bitter talking . |
| 16 | The former chairman , Sir Phil Harris , soon sold his shares and it was not long before the new company was running off the rails . |
| 17 | Only towards the end of the 1920s did the central regime start to suppress Belorussian cultural institutions , and it was not until 1933 that general persecution of nationalism became prevalent in the area . |
| 18 | But Eliot continued to work on it , and it was not published until 1926–7 . |
| 19 | There were occasions when the leagues were of great help to the Conservatives , but their relationship to the party was often ambivalent and sometimes hostile , and it was not always easy to control their activities . |
| 20 | But it was not until the early 1930s that The Allegory of Love began to take shape as a book , and it was not finished until 1935 . |
| 21 | There was bound to be trouble and it was not long in coming . |
| 22 | And it was not the memory of their silent , desperate appeal that worried her . |
| 23 | But sometimes he seemed unnaturally flushed and lively — and it was not with drink . |
| 24 | It proved only a partial victory for Parker who had died in 1902 and it was not until 1919 that the first Moderators or de facto bishops were inducted to ensure higher , more uniform standards and greater control from London . |
| 25 | As a consequence the PFA continued to support George Eastham 's legal battle and it was not until 1964 that the case came to court and Sir Justice Wilberforce established the players ' legal right to the second freedom that had already been negotiated in 1961 . |
| 26 | Musicale was blocked for a run in the home straight and it was not until Pat Eddery secured an opening just over a furlong out that the filly looked likely to cut down Lord Huntingdon 's Wiedniu . |
| 27 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 28 | And it was not alone . |
| 29 | To the waiters standing about it seemed to be perfectly stationary , but they were not members of the Chop Society and it was not their table . |
| 30 | For more than ten years Victoria fell into a state of decrepitude and assumed a ghost like appearance , and it was not until 1986 that final demolition was to take place to make way for an extension to the Victoria Hotel . |