Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report by the West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit demonstrated that it was not only residents who ran the risk of exploitation , but also the staff . |
| 2 | I noticed this with distaste , and rejoiced that it was not the asparagus season . |
| 3 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 4 | The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training . |
| 5 | The student found that it was not uncommon to regard the young person 's stay in residential care as temporary . |
| 6 | Astington found that it was not until the age of nine years that the majority of children gave consistently correct responses . |
| 7 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 8 | The trial judge found that it was not foreseeable that fuel oil on water would catch fire but there was some foreseeable damage in the fouling . |
| 9 | Brown and Harris found that it was not only discrete events which could provoke depression . |
| 10 | Her first instinct was to cover her ears , but she soon realized that it was not going to get any quieter , and let her hands fall to her sides . |
| 11 | A closer look and I realized that it was not fog but smoke , and very thick at that . |
| 12 | But she soon realized that it was not by chance , as it was Angel Clare who sent the cows in for milking . |
| 13 | She realized that it was not shame that made it cower , but further fear . |
| 14 | The senator had frowned , then opined that it was not just the fat who were for ever barred from the Oval Office , but even the ugly . |
| 15 | The defence relied heavily on the legal precedent of Goodchild in the House of Lords in 1978 , where Lord Diplock ruled that it was not illegal to possess naturally occurring substances even if they contained a controlled drug . |
| 16 | And she also realised that it was not her job to heal the hurts of the whole world — though certainly her very nature leaned in that direction . |
| 17 | Separately yesterday , the Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was not referring the proposed acquisition by EFM Dragon Trust of Drayton Asia Trust . |
| 18 | He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida . |
| 19 | Cynics argued that it was not in the interests of the nuclear industry to create even more public concern . |
| 20 | The Church argued that it was not worth spending such high sums on the building 's repair . |
| 21 | The plaintiff argued that it was not therefore open to the Revenue to seek an alteration of the existing assessments , because any information supplied in compliance with a s 17 , FA 1975 notice had to be made the subject of a new or further assessment . |
| 22 | In this case , BCCI argued that it was not open to Fashions and Wholesale to take advantage of the set-off effect as between BCCI and Mr Sawar . |
| 23 | Other members argued that it was not the EC 's fault if Britain paid more money than others under the terms of membership , and there were bitter arguments before a temporary ( three year ) settlement of the issue was reached , at the Luxembourg summit of April 1980 , when Britain got some repayments . |
| 24 | The ‘ restructuring school ’ argued that it was not possible to provide an explanation in terms of location factors alone ; what was needed was to set these factors within the wider context of the restructuring of industry ( Massey , 1979 ; Sayer , 1982 ) . |
| 25 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 26 | She maintained that the reproductive organs were formed in girls at birth and not newly created in adolescence as Maudsley claimed , and while agreeing that women stored nutrient in reserve for childbearing , argued that it was not in finite supply and could safely be drawn upon in adolescence . |
| 27 | For years the Department of Transport argued that it was not its role to promote cycling , but recently the men from the ministry seem to have had a change of heart . |
| 28 | But he added that it was not normal to find such evidence . |
| 29 | Gold EIA , a group which consistently reiterated that it was not anti-mining , is mainly concerned with the adequate articulation of local interests through consultation with the state over the proposed mining . |
| 30 | Sterling lost ground against the dollar after the US central bank , the Federal Reserve , signalled that it was not about to reduce its interest rates . |