Example sentences of "[was/were] not [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our failure was not that we neglected the figures , but that we ignored the ideology … |
| 2 | It was not that she minded the hard work ; it was what the hard work did to her poor hands . |
| 3 | It was not till we saw the captive aerostat balloon with its ever watching radar that the Americans had hoisted over Grand Bahama to probe for boats or aircraft smuggling drugs , that the Maggot again spoke , and by then he had recaptured all his old insouciance . |
| 4 | Buildings , also , seldom appear in his paintings but this was not because he lacked the ability as his etchings show . |
| 5 | It was not until I visited the SHAPE nursery in Belgium in 1969 , with my then grown-up daughter that I saw this again . |
| 6 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 7 | It was not until she reached the age of specialization that she realized how well she had succeeded , although she had had her suspicions : but at the age of fifteen , at the moment of choice , the moment from which the Arts stretched away in one direction and the Sciences in another , never to meet again , she realized that Mrs Hill and Miss Haines had actually been fighting over her . |
| 8 | ‘ It was n't until we noticed the absence of female customers , the dim red lights , and the photos of naked women on the walls that we realised why the ‘ barmaids ’ were laughing at us . ’ |
| 9 | We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters . |
| 10 | It was n't until they reached the walls of Assisi that she spoke again . |
| 11 | And it was n't until I phoned the co-ordinators that he was able to tell me that , oh yes , yes , that was months ago he said |
| 12 | But it was n't until I read the piece in the paper last week that I decided to have another try . ’ |
| 13 | It was pitch black under the overhanging branches and it was n't until he reached the gate of Dobbs ' field that he was able , at last , to distinguish the shapes of the trees , and Dobbs and the wall by the churchyard . |
| 14 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 15 | It was n't as he pretended the desire |