Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] it was [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hawaii was of the United States but it was not in it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | It is n't my amplifier , as I have tried this with an SG and it was n't effected . |
| 8 | It was in 1956 that Leigh-born Dorothy first joined the typing pool at the UKAEA and it was n't long before she was promoted as secretary to Jim Stewart , then Head of the Authority . |
| 9 | The next station should have been Mornington Crescent but it was not . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | I took on the management for Scullion and it was not an enjoyable experience . |
| 12 | There was a ten-ton truck supposed to be waiting for us at Dili but it was n't there . |
| 13 | They sobered up at the graveside in anticipation of the encounter of Jennie and Mary but it was not as hostile as they expected . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Er , and I think that 's an interesting point that , where yo where , when you read the story and you think really what prevented them marrying happily then , was Bertha but it was n't it was their attitudes to each other . |
| 17 | This prayer ( Oratio ) was the goal of Lectio but it was not a prolonged exercise . |
| 18 | MATTHEW Syed , the 22-year-old Oxford University student , won both his table tennis games for England against France at Brentwood but it was n't enough to prevent France from winning 3–2 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had won the biggest-ever majority in this corner of South Wales but it was not enough . |