Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] it [be] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was important , because it showed that it was not a protein , and so clearly differed from lysozyme . |
| 3 | It showed that it was not going to be a profitable venture over time . |
| 4 | For example , it showed that it was not injecting illegal drugs that caused HIV infection but using shared and dirty needles ( Aggleton 1990 ) . |
| 5 | It is quite impossible to say that Woolwich paid to close a transaction since it protested that it was not liable and it immediately sought to establish that the regulations were void . |
| 6 | It emphasised that it was not concerned with reading alone , arguing that reading is not a discrete skill that can be considered in isolation from general language development . |
| 7 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 8 | I think about the milk this morning , how it froze and it was n't in a fridge or nothing . |