Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | A closer look and I realized that it was not fog but smoke , and very thick at that . |
| 2 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 3 | I accept that it was not mandatory upon the judge to require that the mother be given notice of the foster mother 's application , but he knew in general terms from the evidence before him that the mother had maintained an active interest in the children and that she was unhappy about the children 's placement with the foster mother . |
| 4 | That night as I lay in bed I prayed that it was not our name , only one like ours ; I still could n't believe it . |
| 5 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 6 | She showed no inclination to argue further , but lay back in her chair , smiling at Robert , and I saw that it was not , as I had believed , understanding and acceptance that her smile revealed , not that their marriage was so secure it could sustain itself in the face of any disagreement , but that Lili could afford to be pleasant because she had no scruples . |
| 7 | I do n't know why I apologised because it was not my fault that the Crowninshield twins were cocaine freaks , nor that their father wanted to charter Wavebreaker , but I sympathised with Ellen 's distaste for cocaine and was foolish enough to say as much . |
| 8 | I concluded that it was not . |
| 9 | She realized that it was not shame that made it cower , but further fear . |
| 10 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 11 | She had lined her pencil-box with pond-weed ready to receive the creature , but she discovered that it was not easy to get the newt out of the hat and into the pencil-box . |
| 12 | When you answered the question a moment ago about the importance of the boundary , the size of it and so on , you indicated that it was not . |
| 13 | But now ’ she thought that it was not that , but something worse ; Rachel , who had always known things , did not know them properly any more . |
| 14 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 15 | At first Grainne thought it was that power was stealing over them , and then she thought that it was not power but strength , only that did not seem quite right either . |
| 16 | Yet whenever she considered this possibility , properly thought it through , she knew that it was not even a starter . |
| 17 | It was then she understood that it was not too late to stay . |
| 18 | I had invited everyone I could think of to tea , and we had been invited back , but it was not her style , and when she complained that it was not right for her ‘ to be living among all these old people ’ I understood very well what she meant . |
| 19 | She complained that it was not feminine — a woman should show off her waist — and therefore did not convey the right image . |
| 20 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 21 | She wondered whether it was not in his pocket now , how long the interdependence of the three men would last and what might happen when it ended . |
| 22 | From our own experience , we knew that it was not our fried food that was the problem but our own hearts that were being constantly ‘ fried ’ due to the stress of our living conditions and the pressure of our reality . |
| 23 | Not only that , it made me wonder if it was not time to give the game another chance . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 25 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 26 | It had not taken long for her to realise that it was not worth the risk of her position and Stephen 's love . |
| 27 | In Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis [ 1987 ] ICR 464 they held that it was not right to extend the term of the injunction beyond the period for which the advantage might reasonably be expected to continue . |
| 28 | He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida . |
| 29 | For a brief moment , it seemed that it was not only the presidents of newly independent Third World countries who had to take special precautions before departing on state visits . |
| 30 | But he added that it was not normal to find such evidence . |