Example sentences of "[coord] it [adv] was not " in BNC.

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1 The foal 's legs still seemed too long for its body and it still was not sure where the four of them were going , but this did not deter it from frisking about .
2 Ironically , when it was finished , and it certainly was not ‘ ruined ’ , Lipchitz preferred the drawings to the painting , which he put away in a cupboard .
3 But it nearly was not the perfect end for Mansell in Budapest .
4 A worried Bank of England used the weekend to negotiate for the Portuguese currency to start at a higher level than that planned on Friday , but it clearly was not high enough for the pound .
5 This was the first time the phrase Scenic Land Cruise had been used by a train operator — but it certainly was not the last .
6 It was ‘ the establishment ’ , or one very thick and influential layer of it ; but it certainly was not made up of stuffed shirts and Colonel Blimps along with their twittering wives .
7 But it certainly was not all rest and relaxation for Courtney Walsh over the winter .
8 She had a number of very enthusiastic friends who did the research and , and generally assisted her , but everybody gives her credit for , not only working in New York , but it actually was not Federal legislation , they had to work state by state .
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