Example sentences of "in [noun] it was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just in case it was not Magellan who & t uttered the word , then perhaps it was Pigafetta : ‘ We debouched from that Strait , ’ he later wrote , ‘ engulfing ourselves in the Pacific Sea . ’ |
| 2 | In addition it was not surprising that Mr A was totally flummoxed when suddenly there is no voice and somebody begins to make faces instead . |
| 3 | This , yoked with the survival of unpaid feudal service on the lord 's land , the lord 's continued control of woodlands , common land , open fields and meadows used for grazing , and the continued obligation of the tenant to consume only alcohol which had been distilled through the lord 's own stills , meant that while in theory Prussian serfdom was abolished by 1850 , in practice it was not really seriously undermined in Pomerania until the agricultural review of 1865 . |
| 4 | If , therefore , minorities created insecurity , in Scotland it was not the crown but the nobility who suffered , making hay , no doubt , while the sun shone , but knowing that in the end the sileage would be the king 's . |
| 5 | Oh yes ! ’ but in truth it was not that simple . |
| 6 | In Britain it was not possible . ’ |
| 7 | In France it was not until 1986 that the surplus on the balance of trade in manufactured goods on extra-trade was insufficient to offset the deficit on intra-trade . |
| 8 | In reality it was not like this at all . |
| 9 | In reality it was not part of the city at all ; the builders of Kinsai had carved away the plateau and slotted the massive stones of the defences into place around the old structure so that the marvellous symmetry of the circular layout would not be interrupted . |
| 10 | The problem was that in reality it was not so much the Danes who had to decide — they had already made up their minds — as the remainder of the EEC partners who had to face the consequences of the Danish decision . |
| 11 | In Danzig it was not possible for the Nazis to proceed as they had in the Reich . |
| 12 | Apart from a brief pilot study in Edinburgh it was not undertaken . |
| 13 | These above-average profits depended to some extent on the Company 's political influence in England ; in India it was not powerful enough to control the market , but its charter gave it a monopoly in England which let it push prices up further than would have been practicable if non-members of the Company ( denounced as ‘ interlopers ’ ) had been able to import cotton goods into England freely . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , when Gorbachev made his visit to Japan in April it was not accompanied by any breakthrough over the territorial issue . |
| 15 | First , that he allowed Framework Management Ltd to go into liquidation admitting it owed £21,000 to Higgins ( who claimed he was owed £51,000 ) ; and , second , that he had caused to be issued in 1988 ‘ a press release regarding a tournament to be held in Peking stating , and telling Mr Higgins in order to induce him to take part in the tournament , that the first prize was £35,000 when in fact it was not ’ . |
| 16 | In fact it was not . |
| 17 | In fact it was not finally completed within English until the post-war period , with Bateson once again a prominent influence . |
| 18 | Sheer misinterpretation of a part of the present surface as degraded terrace when in fact it was not . |
| 19 | Similarly in Newell v. Hicks ( 1983 D.C. ) a false statement offering to supply a free gift with a purchase of goods ( when in fact it was not free ) was held not to fall within section 14 because it was a statement relating to the supply of goods and therefore did not relate to the provision of services or facilities . |
| 20 | It might have been a uniform although in fact it was not . |
| 21 | In fact it was not only left-hand drive , it had German plates , a hefty dent in the nearside panel , a sticker saying ‘ Stop the Bloody Whaling ’ , a sticker saying Nein Danke to nuclear power whole thing had been garishly resprayed in two-tone brown and purple . |
| 22 | In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd. v Mills & Rockley ( Electronics ) Ltd. [ 1969 ] , a case involving a patent for a method of making printed circuits , Harman J. said : It was objected that in fact it was not until ten years after the invention was published that it was commercially adopted … and it was argued from this that it was not a case of filling a long felt want . |
| 23 | erm Helium does liquify at a much lower temperature than any other element and in fact it was not until erm this century that erm helium was finally liquified . |