Example sentences of "and [subord] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was made Head Girl and although it was not acknowledged by anyone in authority , she was already drinking too much . |
| 2 | The Colonel was there with his wife and children , and although it was not compulsory for the men to attend mass , there were a large number of legionnaires present , mostly Latin or East European . |
| 3 | This was the city she had dreamt about so often , and although it was not quite as clean and fairy-like as she had imagined , it possessed a quality of age and empire . |
| 4 | In England these were the buyers of boroughs and seats in Parliament , and although it was not possible to do this in Scotland , as there were never any ‘ rotten boroughs ’ in the English sense , those who arranged and meddled in the burgh elections were called ‘ Boroughmongers ’ after the English traffickers in boroughs . |
| 5 | If it were not human you would not want it for research and if it was not human no one would deny you having it for research . ’ |
| 6 | And if it was not , what in the wide world was it ? |
| 7 | I do n't know if it was by accident — I should ask him one day — but I used to play that over and over again and just revel in that sound , and I thought if you could get hold of that sound and make a feature of it , and if it were not just two guitars but as many as you needed to make a proper arrangement , the possibilities would be endless . |
| 8 | ‘ . The theory which they comprise is an attempt to articulate the feeling that , for a belief to be knowledge , it must be peculiarly sensitive to the truth of the proposition believed ; it must track the truth ( Nozick 's term ) in the sense that if the proposition were in changed circumstances still true , it would still be believed , and if it were not true , it would not . |
| 9 | His son , the present Lord Rathcreedan , born 1905 , recalls that his parents came to Henley in 1910 specifically for the golf and because it was not far from London . |
| 10 | John and Norma were escorted out of Jeffrey Archer 's Bridal Suite and back to their own and since it was not safe to leave the hotel , Lady Thatcher accompanied them , as she wanted to talk to them about the progress of her Foundation . |
| 11 | A member of the mathematics advisory team was invited by the headteacher to work in the school and while it was not compulsory , it was assumed that every teacher would work with him at some stage . |
| 12 | While it was there he was happy and tranquil , and while it was not he was agonized and sad . |
| 13 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 14 | He was mostly happy without an excessive amount of work , and when it was not there he did not invent it . |
| 15 | Of course the horse named Bess , which I was given had a mind of its own , since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along . |
| 16 | The document left many questions unanswered and when it was not endorsed by any major party figure it slid into oblivion . |
| 17 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 18 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 19 | The princely sum of one guinea a month was agreed on , and though it was not as much as Beth would have liked , it was a welcome increase , and one that positively staggered her disbelieving husband . |
| 20 | And though it was not his way to wait passively for things to come to him , in this he found himself helpless , unable to act . |