Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Aitken 's recruitment to the cause of Biafra was motivated originally by his close friendship with Hugh Fraser , but I am convinced that it was not long before , on a close examination of the circumstances , he became honourably convinced that the British government was backing the wrong cause for dishonourable reasons . |
| 2 | This masked figure that you saw — you 're certain that it was not your master . ’ |
| 3 | The spending may have been great but it was not being devoted to thousands upon thousands of undeserving and feckless claimants . |
| 4 | This death of Solomon reissues would be understandable if it were not for treatment given by EMI to other pianists . |
| 5 | It would be absurd if it were not so unlikely . |
| 6 | Naturally , some knowledge of the vein ahead would be invaluable and it was not unknown for a tiny probing tunnel to be driven ahead of a working face just before a new bargain was to be made . |
| 7 | ‘ The internal dissension in the three parties , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb in her diary , ‘ each party finding its bitterest enemies among its own members or ci-devant members , would be ludicrous if it were not a sinister symptom of the decadent disrupture of British public opinion , owing to lack of faith either in the present order or in any consistent and comprehensive principles of reconstruction . ' |
| 8 | Because the hair , too , was black it was hard to be sure that it was not simply matted and dried insects . |
| 9 | If we see a plane in the air we can be sure that it was not assembled by randomly throwing scrap metal together , because we know that the odds against a random conglomeration 's being able to fly are too great . |
| 10 | It might be necessary but it was not fun , and nothing would ever be fun again . |
| 11 | Although this exclusion would not be valid if it was not reasonable , it is likely that in such a contract on which the acquirer had received professional legal advice the provision would be upheld as being reasonable . |
| 12 | In the US , women were treated for ‘ masturbatory orgasmic inadequacy , ’ which would be laughable if it were not both sad and harmfully misleading . |
| 13 | The narrow streets were crowded and it was not long before Gerald had discovered the cause of the exultant bedlam . |
| 14 | However , it is likely that it was not felt necessary to refer the matter anywhere else as , according to current practice , it was a matter of discipline . |
| 15 | The grant-aid earned under the new Regulations was adequate but it was not generous and although class programmes were extended to new centres and programmes expanded in existing branches , the costs of provision also increased and the District required overdraft facilities until 1950 when a small surplus was secured . |
| 16 | Of course the debate in government and Parliament was crucial but it was not the only way in which the educational reform was tested at the time nor the only way to assess it later . |
| 17 | Whilst the venue on this occasion was central and it was not the first time the A.G.M. had been held on a Friday evening , the Committee appreciates that perhaps the idea of holding the Meeting on the evening before the Dinner Dance to enable those travelling to London to attend both events was not a good one . |
| 18 | He said a derailment was likely if it was not replaced soon . |
| 19 | US and allied governments stressed that the exact moment was unimportant as it was not a " trigger point " , but that military action might begin at any time they chose thereafter , unless Iraq had complied with the UN resolutions . |
| 20 | The cost of the Civic Centre project in Bucharest was enormous but it was not the fundamental cause of the poverty of Romania . |
| 21 | from the first it was apparent that it was not destined to be the faultless pageant which the stewards and controllers of the Kha-Khan 's household had both intended and arranged . |
| 22 | It was held that this did not entitle the seller to take from the buyer the proceeds of the sub-sales of his ( the seller 's ) property ; instead it merely created a charge in favour of the seller which was void because it was not registered under the Companies Act . |
| 23 | Huy was surprised that it was not more unpleasant . |