Example sentences of "[adv] it [was/were] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was not dangerous . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was not surprising that he complained of physical debility . |
| 3 | Looking back on it , perhaps it was not appropriate for me to heckle the vicar over the inadequate parking facilities at St Dodimeads . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was not I but the other riders who were hell-bent on the wrong route . |
| 5 | All this , you might say , was Nerina 's fault — if only it was not clear to me that Nerina was the symptom , not the disease : the pustule , not the pox : that to this end , without need of her intervention , all would still have come . |
| 6 | In order to do so it was not necessary to establish opposition parties ; a multiparty system would simply create the conditions for internal and foreign reactionary forces to grow . |
| 7 | So it was not melancholy ? |
| 8 | Never got through unfortunately , after a month or so it was not topical enough to bother . |
| 9 | So it was not surprising that George found that nobody would accept the dangerously exposed position of Prime Minister and that Pitt was indispensable even though he had no majority in the Commons . |
| 10 | So it was not surprising that Col. Savill should have had an attentive and appreciative audience on 1 December 1989 , when he spoke on this subject . |
| 11 | The principal families of the Khanate were all interrelated , and so it was not hard to understand why the defective genes which had been responsible for Nogai 's early death recurred in so many of his blood . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it was not opposed to the Merovingian dynasty . |
| 13 | Thus it was not surprising that the initiative to take up again the idea of a common market , first raised back in 1952 by the Netherlands at a ministerial meeting of the ECSC as a way of combatting the limited effectiveness of both the OEEC and the sectoral approach , as well as Monnet 's arguments for cooperation in nuclear energy , were grasped only by the six countries of little Europe . |
| 14 | ‘ St. Magnus Martyr was not as important as Stonehenge , but still it was not insignificant . ’ |
| 15 | Still it was not vital and buckles , buttons , thimbles , locks , tobacco boxes , wire , nails et al , did not have to be of brass or copper , though employees in the related industries assumed considerable numbers . |
| 16 | The milk board insisted yesterday it was not aware of any problem until last Friday . |
| 17 | Yesterday it was not clear if police lost contact with the stolen car during the chase . |
| 18 | Hence it was not surprising that Britain declined the invitation to join the proposed coal and steel structure , ostensibly because it was unwilling to accept beforehand the principle of a new and binding supranational authority . |
| 19 | Hence it was not surprising that its proposals were not speedily implemented , much to the chagrin of the House of Commons Energy Committee , three years later . |
| 20 | By now , the Amsterdam was heaving much as it might have been when the quays were lined with ships , although probably it was not half so fetid . |
| 21 | Margaret was at it really she said really it was not much for blind people |
| 22 | Too often it was not open because social workers were at meetings , he told members at the twenty-fifth AGM . |
| 23 | By the standards of today it was not much of a school . |
| 24 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 25 | Until a generation ago it was not uncommon for a successful parish church organist to be appointed to a cathedral post . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Sometimes it was not possible to know precisely which kind were actually included in a particular scheme . |
| 28 | Maybe it was not direct aid and did not have a serious effect , but it seems difficult to imagine any sportsman , black or white , entering sport entirely unassisted . |
| 29 | SUNDAY Life had hoped to interview one of the RUC detectives involved in the original investigation but unfortunately it was not possible . |
| 30 | They were cleaned up for the arrival of summer and then it was not unusual if they were repaired before the onslaught of winter . |