Example sentences of "[coord] it was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adherence to this stated principle has never faltered , but other areas of concern took precedence and it was not until the late 1970s that this area of work was developed . |
| 2 | Mrs Doran just smiled — and it was not a pleasant smile . |
| 3 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 4 | When Eliot in 1928 , loyally reciprocating services rendered , edited Pound 's Selected Poems , he insisted on excluding the propertius poem , and it was not until 1932 that Basil Bunting wrote , already retrospectively , ‘ In my considered opinion , ‘ Propertius ’ was the most important poem of our times , surpassing alike ‘ Mauberley ’ and ‘ The Waste Land ’ . ’ |
| 5 | And it was not all deep depression yesterday , with the likes of Boots and Morgan Grenfell in fine form . |
| 6 | He came to a decision to which on the evidence before him he was entitled to come , and it was not a decision with which the court could properly interfere . |
| 7 | Dr Booth was admittedly ‘ horrified by the amount of fat it carried ’ and it was not until he saw wild boar in a wild life park in France that he realised the opportunities . |
| 8 | SHEFFIELD EAGLES were doubtless declaring themselves unofficial world club champions last night — and it was not the Stones Bitter talking . |
| 9 | The former chairman , Sir Phil Harris , soon sold his shares and it was not long before the new company was running off the rails . |
| 10 | Only towards the end of the 1920s did the central regime start to suppress Belorussian cultural institutions , and it was not until 1933 that general persecution of nationalism became prevalent in the area . |
| 11 | But Eliot continued to work on it , and it was not published until 1926–7 . |
| 12 | There were occasions when the leagues were of great help to the Conservatives , but their relationship to the party was often ambivalent and sometimes hostile , and it was not always easy to control their activities . |
| 13 | But it was not until the early 1930s that The Allegory of Love began to take shape as a book , and it was not finished until 1935 . |
| 14 | There was bound to be trouble and it was not long in coming . |
| 15 | And it was not the memory of their silent , desperate appeal that worried her . |
| 16 | But sometimes he seemed unnaturally flushed and lively — and it was not with drink . |
| 17 | It proved only a partial victory for Parker who had died in 1902 and it was not until 1919 that the first Moderators or de facto bishops were inducted to ensure higher , more uniform standards and greater control from London . |
| 18 | As a consequence the PFA continued to support George Eastham 's legal battle and it was not until 1964 that the case came to court and Sir Justice Wilberforce established the players ' legal right to the second freedom that had already been negotiated in 1961 . |
| 19 | Musicale was blocked for a run in the home straight and it was not until Pat Eddery secured an opening just over a furlong out that the filly looked likely to cut down Lord Huntingdon 's Wiedniu . |
| 20 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 21 | And it was not alone . |
| 22 | To the waiters standing about it seemed to be perfectly stationary , but they were not members of the Chop Society and it was not their table . |
| 23 | For more than ten years Victoria fell into a state of decrepitude and assumed a ghost like appearance , and it was not until 1986 that final demolition was to take place to make way for an extension to the Victoria Hotel . |
| 24 | Instead of sending in his officers to haul out the occupiers , Alderson argued that this was a civil issue , there had been no breach of the peace and it was not his job to suppress dissent . |
| 25 | This was not to be , and it was not until 1982 , some time after his death , that a group of craftsmen ( including his sons , Aonghus and Alistair ) took over the building . |
| 26 | David Damiani set off from here with his family in April 1948 , and it was not difficult to see how clearly the old factory and the church above the city must have stood out on the horizon as the Argentina slipped past the tide bar and steamed for Beirut . |
| 27 | It was a long document which took about forty minutes to read and it was not greeted with warm enthusiasm . |
| 28 | In addition , Derry was a provincial town , distant from the corridors of power where lobbying could be carried out and it was not a natural locus for a pressure group like NICRA . |
| 29 | And it was not a diver , but our landlubbing friend the oceanographer , who discovered this . |
| 30 | I was there to learn to dive and it was not without its problems . |