Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was not helping the poor that kept me going , but the thought of having to admit that I had no stomach . |
| 2 | This withdrawal of co-operation was described as a suspension rather than a severance , however , and it was not made clear whether DEA agents would be ordered out of Mexico . |
| 3 | All this administrative devolution was done by Conservative Governments , and it was not done out of a feeling of national sentiment , but because of the administrative requirements needed to achieve good government for the Scottish people . |
| 4 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 5 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 6 | Now I would be the first to admit that I I 'm not a judge as accountant , I 'm an insurance broker er and erm I do n't understand er and I 'm not aware of all of the rules and regulations that affect accountants er and affect the way audits are carried out , b but I must say I was a bit surprised t to hear during the debate , er that that was really what the problem was , the problem with B C C I was this conflict of interest , that fraud was known and it was not declared er and er I think that these er these regulations should now make that considerably er more clear . |
| 7 | British Airways reported very few cancellations and it was not axing any flights . |
| 8 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 9 | The evidence produced included a transcript in English of Price 's evidence before the City Court of Gôteborg ; and it was not disputed that this evidence was admissible under paragraph 12 of the Schedule 1 . |
| 10 | If you knew nothing about chocolate and it was not wrapped would you ever buy it ? |
| 11 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 12 | He thought that by involving as many as possible in the formal decision-making , he was ensuring their support ; but he forgot that his pleasure in obedience had been learnt the hard way of monastic conversion , and it was not shared by many — not even , when it came to the push , at Bec — much less in the world . |
| 13 | But Eliot continued to work on it , and it was not published until 1926–7 . |
| 14 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the potential causes of instability , but that was not the subject of our discussion last Friday and it was not discussed other than in the margins of the meeting . |
| 15 | HBsAg positive individuals ( accounting for 3% of our cirrhotic population ) were excluded because at the outset of the trial hepatitus B virus immunisation was not widely available to theatre staff and it was not deemed acceptable to expose such staff to the risks of infection undergoing elective surgery . |
| 16 | It did not work , for the reasons set out above , and it was not going to , because it sprang from a basic error . |
| 17 | It was a long document which took about forty minutes to read and it was not greeted with warm enthusiasm . |
| 18 | Held , ( 1 ) refusing to join B. as a party , that , since B. claimed no personal interest in the money in court and it was not suggested that the money belonged to the ousted regime , her only locus standi would be as a person entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia ; but that , on the evidence , B. had no recognition as a representative of the Republic in the United Kingdom ( post , pp. 749H — 750B ) . |
| 19 | Of these three , bad environment must of course be taken seriously , and it was not suggested that environmental factors did not play an important part in health deterioration , but ‘ environment is not the only factor so operative and possibly not the most important one ’ ( M'Gonigle and Kirby , 1936 , p. 148 ) . |
| 20 | A blanket amnesty for those involved in guerrilla activity since 1985 had yet to be finalized and it was not known if there would be official inquiries into massacres by the military , especially that at Mooiwana in 1986 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | East Anglia may have been peripheral , but it was not ignored . |
| 23 | East Anglia may have been peripheral , but it was not ignored . |
| 24 | A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants . |
| 25 | There might have been some other more rational explanation , but it was not furnished to the House by the Secretary of State . |
| 26 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continental Europe gradually changed to a 1 January system , but it was not adopted in England until 1751/2 when the day after 31 December 1751 became 1 January 1752 , rather than remaining 1 January 1751 . |
| 27 | I would go further I am not sure whether my Hon. Friends presented such an amendment but it was not called and ask that such a consultative committee comprise a large number of women bus users . |
| 28 | The great Civil War battle of Marston Moor , in the vales of Yorkshire , in July 1644 , with Parliamentary troops under the command of Cromwell , Fairfax and Leven , with Lord Manchester in overall command , resulted in a great victory for Parliament , but it was not followed up by Lord Manchester , much to the chagrin of Cromwell , and the Royalists managed a considerable victory in September of that year , at Lostwithiel , thirty miles west of Plymouth . |
| 29 | Advice was given by Mr Fallon on how best to proceed to cater for increased demand for places at both St Bede 's and St Augustine 's schools , but it was not followed presumably for political or administration reasons . |
| 30 | The answer may seem obvious now , but it was not realised until the 1920s that creatures sense variations in the length of the day . |