Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never read any of them although it was not for want of trying . |
| 2 | A comparative nothing' of a life , you might think ; and yet it did more to convince me that it was not my imagination at work than all the finery of a court lady could have done . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that it was not only natural but positive : it demonstrated that he still had a relationship with God . |
| 4 | Both disrupt the rules and regulations of respectability , which was about nothing if it was not about controlling the social status of women . |
| 5 | He did not enjoy such visits now , and would have been tempted to abandon them if it were not for the fact that people might gossip . |
| 6 | ‘ Would I bother you if it were not , senor ? ’ |
| 7 | Digital Equipment Corp now believes that the Common Open Software Environment crowd really want it to join them , something that it was not quite sure about a few weeks ago . |
| 8 | The solution could have been an amicable one but it was not to be so . |
| 9 | She reminded herself that it was not Paul 's fault ; and yet , somehow , he should have been able to shield her from this kind of outrage . |
| 10 | She reminded herself that it was not the countryside which had been unfaithful to her and there was no need for her to fall out of love with it . |
| 11 | I once bought a mill house from a family in Cumbria , and during my survey found that a part of the land they were selling did not legally belong to them since it was not on the original conveyance from the lord of the manor . |
| 12 | It was many years since Selwyn 's wife had persuaded him that it was not good manners to pick his teeth in company , but his lips still made the motions of mouthing a toothpick . |
| 13 | But his publisher persuaded him that it was not wise to print such an open attack on the Government . |
| 14 | He thought everything was easy to those who believed ; and nothing would persuade him that it was not so . |
| 15 | Shildon reminded him that it was not wholly the fruit of his investigation for Eliot , he had a head start because he used to work for MacQuillan in Detroit . |
| 16 | For some reason these thoughts of Emily sent her memory shooting back to the previous Friday in Vass 's office when he had brought up the subject of the new crèche and she had somehow ended up , almost aggressively , informing him that it was not her intention , ever , to remarry . |
| 17 | The way the temperature fell at his remark told him that it was not the correct one . |
| 18 | With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened . |
| 19 | It is admitted that there was er such a letter and er on this occasion er Miss evidence is that having heard that the landlords consent for the assignment still had n't been obtained , asked Mr again whether it was possible in view of that , er to withdraw from the contract and er it is case that again Mr repeated the advice he 'd given to Mr two days earlier and told her that it was not possible and that again is denied . |
| 20 | His reputation went before him and it was not auspicious . |
| 21 | Reminding her that she would still be in full control at all times , I asked her whether it was not worth trying the technique to see what happened . |
| 22 | Pat is certain it that it was not . |
| 23 | As FRAG chairman Chris Swinson points out , ‘ I ca n't see why the Government would have mentioned it if it was not intending to act . |
| 24 | It was almost dark when I found it and it was not until I arrived home that I could see its lovely design . |
| 25 | The door was closed when he reached it but it was not locked . |
| 26 | He could not mention it because it was not known in the Latin West before the revival of learning in the ‘ renaissance of the twelfth century ’ ( a useful term due to the American medievalist Charles Homer Haskins , who introduced it in 1927 ) . |
| 27 | It is a funny story , but it seems that the reviewer mainly liked it because it was not very likely to please the editor of a women 's magazine . |
| 28 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 29 | I had decided that , much to my regret , it would not be possible to plan a DIY funeral for myself as it was not a job I would bequeath to friends , and my nearest close relations who might have co-operated were overseas . |
| 30 | In Anderson 's terms , they ‘ struggled ’ and education may have seemed a little remote to them as it was not freely available in most parts of the West Indies until the 1940s . |