Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher Trickie and his Wife … told Mogg that the French people had taken the plan of their House , and that They had also taken the plan of all the places round that part of the Country , that a Brook runs in the front of Trickie 's House and the French people inquired of Trickie wether the Brook was Navigable to the Sea , and upon being informed by Trickie that It was not , they were afterwards seen examining the Brook quite down to the Sea . |
| 2 | judgement was in favour of Aston Villa and it was not until fifty years later that a fresh legal challenge over contract terms was made , by George Eastham against Newcastle United . |
| 3 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the potential causes of instability , but that was not the subject of our discussion last Friday and it was not discussed other than in the margins of the meeting . |
| 4 | Hawaii was of the United States but it was not in it . |
| 5 | The abuse of Artemesia has continued till today because as recently as 1977 many of her paintings including Suzannah and the Elders had been attributed to her father ( a painter who was a close friend of Caravaggio since it was not uncommon for a male member of the family or tutor to take credit for any talent shown by a woman under their ’ guidance ’ . |
| 6 | Neither Mrs Longhill nor Mrs Peterson understood what was wrong with Ruth and it was not until half-past five next morning , when the doctor at last arrived , that a name was put to it . |
| 7 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |
| 8 | I did in December but it was not relative to any of the specifications it was simply to try and ascertain how long the contract was was still live , to find out get this guy |
| 9 | The next station should have been Mornington Crescent but it was not . |
| 10 | The text and supporting graphics of animals in this book were designed to educate , though the ordering was chosen by Bewick so it was not without bias . |
| 11 | The centurion sent word to Jesus that it was not necessary for him to come in person . |
| 12 | That , my Lord , the matter moves on to the fifteenth of October on which day er the plaintiff together with Mr attended Richmond Magistrates Court and obtained a protection order from the justices in relation to the premises and then on the sixteenth of October erm this was the day when things started to go very badly wrong for the plaintiff because Mr by now had returned from his holiday and come back cautiously , he apparently attended after his holiday and on this day Mr was told that , by Mrs that it was not possible to proceed with the financial er dealings that had been agreed between them unless the Frinton property was offered as security . |
| 13 | The topic lasted them all the way back to the Campo San Maurizio and it was not until they were climbing the stairs up to their respective rooms that he let himself say : |
| 14 | I took on the management for Scullion and it was not an enjoyable experience . |
| 15 | Many years later , it would be said of Australia that it was not a sea-going nation but a surf-going one . |
| 16 | They sobered up at the graveside in anticipation of the encounter of Jennie and Mary but it was not as hostile as they expected . |
| 17 | Who were extremely keen to locate in this county , everything was right for them , Mr Allenby 's borough had the site , my clients had the site should I say , and erm but we lost it to Humberside because it was not possible for either Harrogate or ourselves to look them in the eye and say yes we can guarantee planning consent . |
| 18 | Now my Lord as is er then made clear in a statement of claim paragraph three fifteen erm between the twenty third of October and about the twenty second of November the plaintiff then acting upon the advice of Peter that it was not possible to withdraw on this contract , did endeavour to complete upon the deal as soon as possible , very much with the timing in his mind and eventually after some toing and froing which er will be demonstrated in the course of the evidence , agreement was reached with the landlord for his consent to the assignment to be given er on condition that there was payment of some advance rent by the plaintiff . |
| 19 | So far , no one has explained satisfactorily why the US needed plutonium from Britain if it was not to make weapons . |
| 20 | She was much too busy darting glances at Alain and then at Jenna and it was not hard to see that she had detected a certain restraint in the atmosphere . |
| 21 | Going out-of-door was , of course , the most favoured activity of Sherman and Austin and it was not unusual for Sherman to be excited about going outside . |
| 22 | This prayer ( Oratio ) was the goal of Lectio but it was not a prolonged exercise . |
| 23 | It was implicitly understood in this agreement that a political solution would ultimately involve the emergence of a coalition regime within the framework of a settlement ; the Soviet Union indicated to a number of non-aligned states including India that it was not averse to such a development . |
| 24 | If Hughes was relevant to the decision in Foakes it must follow that Pinnel 's Case was equally relevant to the decision in Hughes but it was not cited in the latter case and it would surely have been very surprising it if had been . |
| 25 | Despite fierce protests from the Mexican government and the American Civil Liberties Union , the Supreme Court ruled in June that it was not against US law for US agents to kidnap citizens of other countries even if an extradition treaty existed [ see p. 38954 ] . |
| 26 | He had won the biggest-ever majority in this corner of South Wales but it was not enough . |