Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the coal areas , where sympathetic strike action was strongly evident , and the rural areas , where it was not , the rest of the country displayed immense diversity . |
| 2 | In general , Labour seemed relatively to suffer from high poll tax levels even where it was not in control of the council . |
| 3 | It is the danger of imposing reason and order where it was not always present . |
| 4 | This policy caused great hardship in villages where it was not possible to grow enough rice for the needs of the residents . |
| 5 | In most cases this was slander but I have seen instances where it was not far from the truth . |
| 6 | Although quite early in World War I both sides moved underground into elaborate trench systems , there were areas where it was not possible to dig deep trenches . |
| 7 | But their view on how this should be achieved was quite different : correction was to be an applied science whose goal , where feasible , was to be the rehabilitation of individual offenders ( where it was not feasible , segregation or elimination , for the protection of society , was to suffice ) . |
| 8 | This came to an end during the Seven Years War ; and although it was refounded in 1775 it seems to have been designed merely to produce men capable of filling such relatively minor posts as those at Warsaw and The Hague , where it was not necessary for the Prussian representative to be of high social rank . |
| 9 | He also took tapings from Jacob 's hands and from his head , where it was not a mask of blood . |
| 10 | The trouble was that ( where it was not already part of tradition ) the introduction of piece-work was often resisted , especially by the skilled men , and that it was complex and obscure not only for the workers , but for employers who often had only the haziest idea of what production-norms to set . |
| 11 | Goulding J found as a fact that all parts of the sales information had been used for the purposes of the defendant 's business and he divided information into three categories where it was not the subject of any express provision : ( 1 ) Information which because of its triviality or public accessibility was not confidential at all . |
| 12 | I served for two years , 18 months of which where in Egypt , during the so called Middle East Crisis , where it was not unusual to be sniped at , almost daily , by an unseen enemy who did n't always miss . |
| 13 | Tony Visconti : ‘ Space Oddity ’ had been recorded and released at this time although it was not selling . |
| 14 | In theory it may sound radical to interfere with a doctor 's right to prescribe , although it was not the drug that was being withdrawn , only the branded version . |
| 15 | In an attempt to get away from Lord Rothschild 's stereotype , he trawled the country for new names , although it was not until 1980 that people were able to write in to nominate themselves . |
| 16 | A ‘ Society for Promoting Ecclesiastical Knowledge ’ was formed in 1829 ( a balance to the older , Anglican Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge ) ; in 1846 the Evangelical Alliance was begun although it was not , at least in the beginning , mainly Nonconformist . |
| 17 | The redoubtable Joseph Parker made four visits although it was not until 1887 that he made a lecture tour which was not a success due to ill health and financial disagreements . |
| 18 | ALTHOUGH it was not apparent at the time , the legal commission of the German athletic federation ( DLV ) may have , in the long-term , bestowed a huge favour on world sport by quashing the four-year suspension imposed on Katrin Krabbe , Grit Breuer and Silke Moller . |
| 19 | He had to translate early botanical , English , Scots and Gaelic names into their modern botanical equivalents , although it was not always possible to be precise . |
| 20 | The well was moved because of this road , which went through its original position , although it was not put into its present position until 1921 . |
| 21 | The equally earnest Anglo-French Declaration of 1918 promising the Arabs of former Ottoman colonies their independence if they supported the Allies against the Turks fell into much the same category , although it was not a promise that was intended to be kept . |
| 22 | The museum staff knew the name of Damiani , although it was not recalled with much enthusiasm . |
| 23 | About this time , Vermuyden vanished from public life , although it was not until 1677 that he died , full of years and riches , and was buried in St Margaret 's , Westminster . |
| 24 | The novel probably began to take shape during the autumn of 1888 , although it was not published until 1891 . |
| 25 | The LDDC , in its 1987 Corporate Plan ( LDDC , 1987 ) , argued that , although it was not itself a housing authority , it intended to increase this figure by rehabilitating older public-sector estates through a programme of co-operation with local authorities . |
| 26 | Thomas Edison saw that the public were deserting cylinder records for discs , so he announced his ‘ Diamond Disc Phonograph ’ in 1911 , although it was not ready until 1913 . |
| 27 | She was made Head Girl and although it was not acknowledged by anyone in authority , she was already drinking too much . |
| 28 | This project had been conceived by the Marquis de Colbert , one of Louis XIV 's ministers , soon after the foundation of the academie in 1666 , although it was not until 1713 that Reaumur began work on the project . |
| 29 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |
| 30 | Relative peace ensued in Champagne in the years which followed , although it was not until the coronation of Louis XI in 1461 that the French nobility were able to express their new solidarity . |