Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] it was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | : Due to constraints on the availability of data pads it was not always possible to obtain test data from the original source . |
| 2 | Their quotation was £12 for two pages , we had asked for a quote based on four , and although the letter promised a price and font list it was not enclosed . |
| 3 | In the post Second World War days it was not extraordinary to see Laker and Lock open the attack for Surrey in county matches . |
| 4 | In the United States it was not the £75,000 cheque but the $64,000 Question , the top prize in a double-your-money television quiz , that dominated people 's fantasies . |
| 5 | Now that he was down at ground level it was not so easy for Patrick to locate the dell where he had seen the immaculate golfer . |
| 6 | But as he tapped it , expertly , for he had suffered an onslaught of boils over a suppurating , pus-stinking twelvemonth , he knew that the hardness meat it was not quite ripe . |
| 7 | Even cards and tickets used for advertising purposes were under tight control and under the Paper Control Order it was not permissable to display cards directly related to furthering the sale of goods . |
| 8 | To an outsider this seemed a quite natural progression , but within the West Indies it was not greeted with unmitigated delight . |
| 9 | In Sri Lanka Sinhalese-Buddhist cultural nationalism was linked with other grievances and was sometimes expressed through rioting , but in the absence of élite leadership it was not channelled into demands for constitutional concessions from the British . |
| 10 | And yet until the Space Age it was not at all certain whether the lunar craters were of impact origin or of volcanic origin . |
| 11 | However , before the First World War it was not at all clear how far the social democratic movements had been subverted . |
| 12 | Years before the First World War it was not unusual to see bare-footed boys running from street to street selling the Echo in all types of weathers . |
| 13 | And in school subjects it was not those which depended on words alone which drew benefit from IT . |
| 14 | In discussion sessions it was not unusual for groups of participants to have strong and very different views about particular tasks ! |
| 15 | Secondly , in the Fearon case it was not the right to exercise an economic activity which was conditional on the shareholders ' satisfying the residence requirement , but merely immunity from compulsory acquisition measures adopted under legislation governing the ownership of rural land designed to ensure as far as possible that the land belonged to those who worked it . |
| 16 | He flew to Prague to convince the embassy refugees it was not a trap . |