Example sentences of "[noun prp] it was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United States it was not the £75,000 cheque but the $64,000 Question , the top prize in a double-your-money television quiz , that dominated people 's fantasies . |
| 2 | I told Richard it was not only wrong but immensely stupid to lie about this sort of thing . |
| 3 | Given the strong emphasis on children with special educational needs during the early days of PNP it was not surprising that many collaborations concentrated their attention on these children . |
| 4 | If , therefore , minorities created insecurity , in Scotland it was not the crown but the nobility who suffered , making hay , no doubt , while the sun shone , but knowing that in the end the sileage would be the king 's . |
| 5 | But once the Parliamentary material was brought to our attention , it seemed to me , as , I believe , to others of your Lordships who had heard the appeal first argued , to raise an acute question as to whether it could possibly be right to give effect to taxing legislation in such a way as to impose a tax which the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , during the passage of the Bill containing the relevant provision , had , in effect , assured the House of Commons it was not intended to impose . |
| 6 | This overlooks the point that , since the decision of the House in Button and Swain it was not necessary to prove that the offence took place in public . |
| 7 | To an outsider this seemed a quite natural progression , but within the West Indies it was not greeted with unmitigated delight . |
| 8 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 9 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 10 | The mayor and citizens of Chichester , the prior of Lewes and many others joined in the public outburst against royal exactions , although after Cade was murdered at Heathfield it was not they who suffered when the repression came . |
| 11 | For Anne it was not only the ordeal of the air raids but even more the terror that her mother would die on the bed in the cellar , with only Anne of all her family with her . |
| 12 | The basic problem for the Emperor was that while France needed Britain it was not at all clear to British statesmen that their country had any need of France — except when it suited British interests . |
| 13 | In Britain it was not possible . ’ |
| 14 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 15 | For Lewis it was not enough to have the Bible : you had to learn how to read it . |
| 16 | In France it was not until 1986 that the surplus on the balance of trade in manufactured goods on extra-trade was insufficient to offset the deficit on intra-trade . |
| 17 | In Newcastle , which had a resident middle class , it was widely available ; in nearby largely working-class Gateshead it was not . |
| 18 | In the barony of Lewes it was not unknown for heritable copyholds to be entailed , to such an extent indeed that even though the common law harboured reservations as to its legality , the judges ‘ haue bene sparinge to deliuer their opinions because it concerned very many of the kinges subjectes ’ . |
| 19 | In Danzig it was not possible for the Nazis to proceed as they had in the Reich . |
| 20 | Terry Eagleton , oddly , dismisses evidence from Daniel Defoe that in the coffee houses of London it was not uncommon for mechanicks to hold forth on issues of the day . |
| 21 | Apart from a brief pilot study in Edinburgh it was not undertaken . |
| 22 | These above-average profits depended to some extent on the Company 's political influence in England ; in India it was not powerful enough to control the market , but its charter gave it a monopoly in England which let it push prices up further than would have been practicable if non-members of the Company ( denounced as ‘ interlopers ’ ) had been able to import cotton goods into England freely . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , when Gorbachev made his visit to Japan in April it was not accompanied by any breakthrough over the territorial issue . |
| 24 | And at a time when Furtwängler was out of fashion in Britain and America it was not unusual to be told that he rarely managed to play two successive bars in the same tempo . |
| 25 | When he travelled across America it was not so much the places as the travelling which found its way into his pictures . |
| 26 | When he travelled across America it was not so much the places as the travelling which found its way into his pictures . |