Example sentences of "it [was/were] not [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were n't , it were n't pay as you earn then . |
| 2 | And it were n't Brian that sent it . |
| 3 | The air that stirred round their trunks seemed green , thick , rippling — as if it were not air but drifting water . |
| 4 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
| 5 | He wanted what I wanted and it was n't love or commitment or really even friendship ( although he called it that ) . |
| 6 | But it was n't sex that really mattered to either of us ; he used to say that I was his insurance and consolation in old age . ’ |
| 7 | But it was n't unprofessionalism that caused Finchie to behave so uncharacteristically . |
| 8 | It was n't lumber or it was a funny name , backscratch or something , a dance . |
| 9 | It was as if to prove that it was n't England that had changed that Losey went on to make Accident ( 1967 ) , a powerful triangle drama involving two very different Oxford academics and their exotic pupil , financed from English sources . |
| 10 | Well the standpipe used to freeze up and er when that occurred the grown men in the house used to light a fire round the standpipes , of course it was cast iron it was n't copper or anything like that , and light a fire to thaw it out , I do n't remember ever being without water but we used , it was a bit primitive but burn newspaper and stuff round the standpipe and er the old as I say we used to , the water for the washing we used to pump into the sink and er fill the old dolly tub with water for the washing and use the rainwater for washing . |
| 11 | So it was n't defence and the instruments of death that brought Summerchild to that little yard in Spring Gardens . |
| 12 | It was n't tenderness and touching and soft kisses . |
| 13 | It was n't Dave that took all those freebies , it was the Lancashire Evening Post . |
| 14 | So majestic were Forest that one had to look down to the programme to make sure it was n't Robertson and Woodcock and McGovern and Gemmill combining in sweet harmony to carve open Leeds . |
| 15 | Writing to his mother and father , he said he wanted to explain that it was n't extravagance that had led him to buy not one coat but two , and two pairs of trousers . |
| 16 | But it was n't duty that took her from her bed creeping down the stairs . |
| 17 | No no I think there were all sorts , all ages , I I think just maybe some were more dedicated to the job and th certainly after a couple of weeks it was n't family if you like you know , family in inverted commas , there . |
| 18 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 19 | If it was n't food or drugs it was romance . |
| 20 | That sum equates to half a million pounds at today 's values — and this was six years before his two epic ring struggles with Barney Ross , so whatever motivated ‘ Baby Face ’ McLarnin to box Ross , it was n't poverty or money . |
| 21 | It was n't Reyes that had Nelson worried , but Czech Martin Vrabel . |
| 22 | ‘ It was n't technology that doomed nuclear power in the US , nor was it the dedicated obstructionist tactics of the anti-nuclear forces , effective though they were . |
| 23 | It was n't vanity that had prompted her to freshen herself up . |
| 24 | No no no it was like erm Boojoo or something , it was n't Boojoo but it was something like that . |
| 25 | Shut up said Catherine shortly , we know it was n't Daryl or Alicia because they say so . |
| 26 | It was not hype or cleverly taken pictures designed for ‘ sophisticated ’ audiences , sated daily by instant coverage of war and disaster ; the problem is real enough — and in real terms , it very nearly defies description . |
| 27 | ‘ It was not logic that carried might one say that the quicksilver in the barometer changes the weather . |
| 28 | This time , however , it was not indecision that held him , but relief — relief at not having to play a role any more . |
| 29 | It was not life that connected them so firmly , but death . |
| 30 | After thirty years the memory which abides with me of the Suez episode that began with Egypt 's nationalisation of the Canal on 26 July 1956 is of complete bewilderment and the sense of watching an unintelligible drama It was not surprise that Egypt had appropriated the Canal . |