Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] [not/n't] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When conversions occurred it was not Peter who was involved in baptising but his team ( Acts 10:48 ) . |
| 2 | Knowles alleged that one of the officials told him : ‘ I know it 's not Crabb 's body , but you must swear to me if you 're asked in court if it 's the body , you 're to say it is — for Queen and country . ’ |
| 3 | Now we know it was n't John Campbell was at the reiving ? ’ |
| 4 | Shut up said Catherine shortly , we know it was n't Daryl or Alicia because they say so . |
| 5 | I began to wish it was n't Martinho who was my partner in this deadly game of doubles . |
| 6 | Suppose it 's not Liam in there ? |
| 7 | Suppose it was not Tuesday that the train ran . |
| 8 | And let us be quite clear that the fact that any particular system does n't go on for ever does n't mean it was n't God 's will when it came in . |
| 9 | The breath hissed from her when she saw it was n't April . |
| 10 | He 's had his hands full with other matters , and so have I. No , I doubt it was not Llewelyn . |
| 11 | But as soon as I saw that little boy I knew it was n't Ben . |
| 12 | That 's how she knew it was n't Vera . |
| 13 | Now , coiled here , she thought it was not Phoebe 's fault , it was the dullness of being an adult ; it was the natural flavour of the world once one had said goodbye to childhood . |
| 14 | This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings . |
| 15 | I said it 's not Rufus . |
| 16 | Captain Tony Adams had promised Arsenal were ready ‘ to give some unlucky team a tonking ’ , and only the woodwork and some slack second-half finishing ensured it was n't Coventry , although their unbeaten away record was comprehensively shredded . |
| 17 | Somehow the salmonella knows it is not E. coli even though it would not require many mutations for it to become E. coli , or the reverse . |