Example sentences of "it [was/were] not [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it were n't Brian that sent it . |
| 2 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | But it was n't unprofessionalism that caused Finchie to behave so uncharacteristically . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was n't Dave that took all those freebies , it was the Lancashire Evening Post . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it was n't duty that took her from her bed creeping down the stairs . |
| 9 | It was n't Reyes that had Nelson worried , but Czech Martin Vrabel . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | It was n't vanity that had prompted her to freshen herself up . |
| 12 | ‘ It was not logic that carried might one say that the quicksilver in the barometer changes the weather . |
| 13 | This time , however , it was not indecision that held him , but relief — relief at not having to play a role any more . |
| 14 | It was not life that connected them so firmly , but death . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was not money that the joint bodies did not require or need . |
| 17 | Harper had used the excuse of horse-trading to explain his journey to Isabella , but she knew the real truth of his escapade , It was not horses that fetched Harper to Belgium , but Sharpe . |
| 18 | It was not wickedness that led him into crime but a cheerfully impulsive nature and an almost complete lack of reasoning power . |
| 19 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 20 | Suppose it was not Tuesday that the train ran . |
| 21 | In doing this the subject will fail to detect that it was not trespasses that was presented , but the mispronunciation tresbasses . |
| 22 | She was circling the room with an almost predatory air , examining each painting , each piece of furniture , and it was not appreciation that was etched on her face . |
| 23 | She realized that it was not shame that made it cower , but further fear . |
| 24 | It was not compunction that restrained him , but an inherent sense of economy that objected to seeing time and effort and pain squandered uselessly . |
| 25 | Yet it was not God that kept me going but my critics . |
| 26 | But it was not bashfulness that made her avert her eyes ; it was a deeper , stronger feeling : one that she tried to hide not only from the watchful T'ang , but from herself . |