Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it was not so much my feelings that had changed as my thoughts . |
| 2 | Never got through unfortunately , after a month or so it was not topical enough to bother . |
| 3 | And so it was not with any special disappointment that Tate envisaged how Eliot 's message , his distinctively American apprehension of Europe , might thereafter be conveyed less in poems than in his conduct of The Criterion , the magazine he had begun to edit in 1923 : |
| 4 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 5 | About 12 months ago Innes mentioned that he could be interested in a rugby league offer after the World Cup , and so it was not a surprise that he was tagged by the cheque-book boys in Britain . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , given the well-known stance of the Seven on political unity , EFTA was not intended to have any political implications , and so it was not deemed necessary for it to have an elaborate institutional structure . |
| 7 | The list was continuous , and so it was not a matter of waiting.until the end before repeating the numbers from memory . |
| 8 | And so it was not until January , four months after moving in , that I had a reasonable chance of settling down . |
| 9 | The principal families of the Khanate were all interrelated , and so it was not hard to understand why the defective genes which had been responsible for Nogai 's early death recurred in so many of his blood . |
| 10 | Whether it was approved or not — and usually it was not — it was understood on all sides that democracy meant , to a lesser or greater degree , popular power , popular sovereignty , popular participation . |
| 11 | They reached Zweeloo at six in the morning , and still it was not properly light . |
| 12 | Their views trickled down through the student nurses ' years and were apt to be accepted as gospel , since that saved the students the bother of forming opinions for themselves , and also it was not often a student in her first couple of years , if not longer , had the opportunity to form any opinion on our men . |
| 13 | When she had been little it had been easy , and now it was not . |
| 14 | They were cleaned up for the arrival of summer and then it was not unusual if they were repaired before the onslaught of winter . |
| 15 | P. Ransome-Wallis remarked that one platform would have sufficed for the traffic , and indeed it was not long before Trinidad 's railways , together with those of all the smaller West Indian islands , were shut down . |
| 16 | ( And indeed it was not . |
| 17 | They would not have felt at ease if the beach had been entirely unpeopled , and indeed it was not , but over here balls would not bounce nor running youngsters kick sand up on to their towels , and there was the shade essential for Jack , which his wife had still to remind him about . |
| 18 | And yet it was not the face of her customer that she saw in her mind , but the strong lean jaw and the dark unfathomable eyes of a stranger . |
| 19 | And yet it was not all bad news , she reminded herself , because Matthew was no longer condemned to go underground in order to earn a living , and David had told her how amazed he was at ‘ the boy 's remarkably quick mind and business acumen ’ . |
| 20 | Somehow it was not his business and certainly it was not his business to pander to it . |
| 21 | The grant payable depended upon the number of children who could read , write , and do arithmetic to the satisfaction of the individual inspector , and therefore it was not unnatural that every effort was made by the managers of the school , to see that the inspectors ’ tastes in such other matters as food and drink were duly considered when he visited them . |
| 22 | At one stage it was thought that the old lady would be written off , but luckily it was not to be and the following year I was able to take her from Buckie with a new lease of life . |
| 23 | But perhaps it was not so surprising . |
| 24 | ‘ St. Magnus Martyr was not as important as Stonehenge , but still it was not insignificant . ’ |
| 25 | Their meeting in this year could have been chilly , then , but fortunately it was not : " Possum more relaxed this year , " Pound wrote to Ernest Hemingway , " last year rather edgy … " |
| 26 | Mikkelborg 's composition probably would not stand up without Davis , but then it was not designed to . |
| 27 | All aluminium saucepans including those from Buckingham Palace here collected in July nineteen forty but unfortunately it was not of the right grade and so housewives then suffered for the rest of the war and having to cook with inferior pans . |
| 28 | Then the Burt family left the house in 1920 it was offered to the Council but unfortunately it was not taken up . |
| 29 | My advice was , I believe , impeccable , but unfortunately it was not taken and , where Wigg was concerned , was deliberately misconstrued . |
| 30 | SUNDAY Life had hoped to interview one of the RUC detectives involved in the original investigation but unfortunately it was not possible . |