Example sentences of "[was/were] n't [adv] that " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't need to be reminded that it was the previous administration who put it in the structure plan but I also want to remind those who were n't here that I was utterly opposed to that at the time . |
2 | People used the underground and of course there were the , there were the erm Morrison shelters were n't there that you you had indoors . |
3 | It was n't right that Sendei should just be left here . |
4 | When she got pregnant her social worker booked her into here , as there was not much space at her home and Barbara agreed that it was n't right that her mother should have her back with a baby as well . |
5 | ‘ Still , it was n't exactly that I was thinking of , ’ the Marshal said . |
6 | It was n't exactly that he wanted a present . |
7 | It was n't exactly that he was afraid ; he just did n't want to leave Frances . |
8 | It was n't simply that he was managing to smile with his mouth full — a difficult enough task at the best of times — it was that his smile expressed so many real , positive qualities that it must be designed to sell something . |
9 | It was n't simply that he seemed incapable of telling the truth : he could n't begin to express any thought without it sounding false or grotesque . |
10 | It was n't simply that he felt protective towards him . |
11 | It worried him a bit , but it was n't here that he looked nervous and gave me reason to be concerned . |
12 | It was n't just that copies of knitting patterns in a popular British magazine were regarded as subersive , or even that the border guards had strict rules about the permitted length of visitors ' hair . |
13 | It was n't just that Major appeared to have accepted a dare to go through an entire broadcast without offering a single specific incentive of any kind for people to vote for him , but Brunson , an experienced broadcaster , was even odder . |
14 | It was n't just that Nottingham 's studious fullback landed seven goals from his solitary World Cup appearance , against the American Eagles at Twickenham last October . |
15 | It was n't just that the parents had to be kept under control despite the fact that they and the police were in many respects working at cross purposes , it was the danger of some third party interfering … a go-between with power and influence was what the Captain dreaded most … |
16 | It was n't just that Bernice had no time for women who made themselves look like that ; the other woman demanded attention . |
17 | It was n't just that the thing looked misshapen and ugly and threatening . |
18 | It was n't just that it looked so out of place hanging against the speckled mystery of clean , deep space . |
19 | It was n't just that their possessions , wood and porcelain , paint and linen , symbolised their joint life . |
20 | It was n't just that she was strikingly beautiful ; there was an unworldly air about her . |
21 | It was n't just some inevitable reserve because of the age difference , and it was n't just that she was an intensely private person whose public persona did n't tell the whole story . |
22 | It was n't just that she had grown older and softer or that they were harder than he had been . |
23 | It was n't just that he was pitching it lower . |
24 | ‘ It was n't even that I felt unhappy . |
25 | It was n't merely that he had lost stones in weight — dash it , the man 's sobriquet was a libel now — but that his whole demeanour was that of a soldier completely confused , completely disorientated . |
26 | It was n't often that he had a whole day out on the moor . |
27 | It was n't often that men shrugged off her attempts to pay her way . |
28 | you see Lord is here very splendidly to argue the case and at the moment I 'd like you to address the question , I 'll ask it again , the question is , I think it 's a simple one , it follows from your answer about why the brochures had to be updated , but when there was a time when they were not updated before nineteen eighty nine , there was a risk was n't there that with the brochures printing service charges towards the end of the sales period someone might have been mislead by the brochure ? that 's right is n't it ? |
29 | There was a game was n't there that they played |
30 | This was n't quite that it was more like a glossy young holly leaf oh it was beautiful ! |