Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 2 | When one man with a tiny congregation has the cure of 13,000 souls , it is a joke , or it would be if it were not so sad . |
| 3 | If an animal does not eat a food item at one moment but does later , it may only be because it was not hungry before , not because it has learned to see it . |
| 4 | But the central irony about him is that it was not only the Norwegian people that rejected him : even the majority of Norwegian fascists did n't want him . |
| 5 | A vital feature of this project is that it was not merely an action project with research added on , but action designed so that it could be researched . |
| 6 | THOMPSON : ‘ All I 've just said is that it was not a good enough explanation of what I got and I do n't think anybody has been told , not only to the media out there , myself who is the most important one . |
| 7 | The answer to that question I think is that it was not Marxism . |
| 8 | What we know about the Ukrainian Division is that it was not retained by 5 Corps in Austria , and that by the end of May it had turned up in Italy . |
| 9 | But if his defence is that it was not his intention to cause fear of violence or to provoke its use , his conduct might still come within the ambit of the subsection by virtue of its latter part . |
| 10 | What he really meant was that it was not in his interest or that of the intelligence services involved . |
| 11 | In B Division , the discipline was about the worst in the force — the thing was that it was not a bad pay-packet plus there was the pension at the end — a big item . |
| 12 | The overriding criticism of the National Curriculum proposals was that it was not designed to achieve significant fundamental aims : it did not obviously focus upon ‘ great issues , principles and values ’ , or on the development of fundamentally important attitudes and skills , which educators , industrialists , and all those concerned with the welfare of society and the enrichment of the individual , would see as paramount . |
| 13 | The second , and methodological , argument against historicism was that it was not ‘ rational ’ , or at least that it fostered irrationalism and mysticism ( Popper 1966 : 216 ) . |
| 14 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |
| 15 | The suggestion made was that it was not about economic development , but about buying off the nationalist community . |
| 16 | The trouble with the classic realist novel , in this view , was that it was not realistic enough : truth to life was sacrificed to the observance of purely narrative conventions . |
| 17 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 18 | His only regret was that it was not his old friend the female golden eagle who had escaped . |
| 19 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
| 20 | The reason was that it was not at that time ascertained that those materials were definitely to be used . |
| 21 | The problem was that it was NOT cough syrup , but a hefty dose of Thawpit cleansing spirit that had been put into the medicine bottle , probably because it was the left-overs from a bigger can . |
| 22 | The discussion that Richard and I had , my recommendation was that it was not a big enough thing to cover a separate procedure for . |
| 23 | Ironically , the Great War would not have been the war that it was if it were not for the machine . |
| 24 | At a meeting , our ward councillor Mr I. Hartley informed us the reason for this decision was because it was not viable . |