Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems , on his own initiative , to have put himself through an extensive course of classics , modern languages and English literature , a combination of subjects that it was not then possible to offer at any university . |
| 2 | She knew that success would come if she could convince readers that it was not a novel designed as mere entertainment but a moral tale designed to expose an evil and enhance the moral status of the reader . |
| 3 | From salmon sperm he also isolated a protein , named protamine , and observed that nuclein was closely associated with proteins if it was not actually a protein itself . |
| 4 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 5 | At this stage you will notice that no attempt has been made to count the words as it was not possible to use the macro record facility for this operation . |
| 6 | Although quite early in World War I both sides moved underground into elaborate trench systems , there were areas where it was not possible to dig deep trenches . |
| 7 | By the early 1820s conviction grew amongst reformers that it was not . |
| 8 | The redoubtable Joseph Parker made four visits although it was not until 1887 that he made a lecture tour which was not a success due to ill health and financial disagreements . |
| 9 | He said that a company could suffer bad headhunting experiences if it was not entirely sure exactly what it wanted the search consultant to do . |
| 10 | ‘ Peter wanted to do anything he could to help catch Paul 's killers but it was not easy for him to help with the pictures . ’ |
| 11 | Well why would it be used in circumstances when it was not needed otherwise ? |
| 12 | The oil crisis and following economic recession of the 1970s reinforced any protectionist tendencies of the individual member states and it was not until the early 1980s that the political will developed to re-focus the creation of a single market . |
| 13 | Why else should the notion of Frankenstein 's monster have affronted the imagination of generations if it was not their intuition of God that was affronted ? |
| 14 | I have imagined it a thousand times and it was not like this . |
| 15 | On the particular facts McCardie J found that the house and its contents were not free of tuberculosis bacilli and it was not fit for human habitation . |
| 16 | It took hours and it was not until the late afternoon that he began the final copy . |
| 17 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 18 | The twigs on the brakes were all beaded and bulging as with countless white droplets but it was not frost or rain but the swelling of buds . |
| 19 | Footballers sometimes appeared on a music-hall bill in the late Victorian and Edwardian years but it was not until the inter-war years that top players became ‘ stars ’ . |
| 20 | The AC-130 gunships blasted selected targets but it was not immediately clear what had been hit , the witnesses said . |
| 21 | And to this day I shall never be able to understand why so many of my generation , by the time they were in their teens , had a mouthful of dentures because it was not due to eating sweets . |
| 22 | His father had been the son of a labourer who had earned 2d a day from ploughing , and such low-paid occasional work was typical of what was available for the children of farm labourers until , in such places as it was not in decline , they could be put to live-in farm or domestic service at around the age of fourteen . |
| 23 | ( The latter person merely maintains of a particular set of conditions that it was not the whole of the causal circumstance . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , central control of the elementary school curriculum was maintained through a succession of codes and it was not until 1936 that these regulations were changed in a way that left responsibility for ‘ a suitable curriculum and syllabus with due regard to the organisation and circumstances of the school ’ in the hands of teachers . |
| 25 | At first it may seem surprising to find a Gentile so involved in Jewish affairs but it was not all that unusual . |
| 26 | One horse had detached itself and ambled towards the line of protesters but it was not for a moment that Meredith realised , with a pang of dismay , that it was Blazer carrying Harriet . |
| 27 | This policy caused great hardship in villages where it was not possible to grow enough rice for the needs of the residents . |
| 28 | In most cases this was slander but I have seen instances where it was not far from the truth . |
| 29 | Bedu translated the Classes into French and English , but was so explicit in her demonstrations that it was not always necessary . |
| 30 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |