Example sentences of "this [was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But this was n't to do with fearsome flashbacks from the great TV war . |
| 2 | But I mean , if it was costing this sort of money to clear the pipes and so forth out , what I fail to understand is if we 're having a full overhaul of the machine , why this was n't incorporated within it . |
| 3 | This was n't helping at all . |
| 4 | She began to hope that maybe she 'd already been rescued and this was n't Spiderglass at all . |
| 5 | And when Helen , who lives in Oxford , discovered this was n't provided by the NHS , she started raising funds to buy the equipment . |
| 6 | This was n't going at all how she had hoped . |
| 7 | up until then I still was n't too worried , but I think then it started to dawn on me that this was n't going to be much fun and I felt a bit scared . |
| 8 | This was n't going to be a party . |
| 9 | Sometimes being born with every apparent advantage in life spawns the deepest need to create something just by oneself , to say : ‘ This was n't handed to me on a plate , but I did it just the same ! ’ |
| 10 | this was n't gon na be disco |
| 11 | She shut her eyes , unsure if she was trying to blot out the unexpected hunger in his kiss , or opting for her ostrich trick again and trying to pretend this was n't happening to her . |
| 12 | ( You 'd think he might have been a bit more careful — after all , this was n't happening in the Dark Ages before birth control was invented . ) |
| 13 | Yet while they showered their offspring with expensive presents this was n't accompanied by the affectionate cuddles and kisses that the children craved . |
| 14 | Melanie saw , with a sinking of the heart , that this was not written into the script . |
| 15 | The bile acid concentration in faecal water also decreased with increasing dietary calcium , and this was not influenced by dietary phosphate . |
| 16 | The Federal Constitutional Court ruled on April 23 that landowners and industrialists whose property was expropriated during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany in 1945-49 did not have a right to its return , and that this was not counter to clauses in the federal Constitution on the right to property and equal treatment before the law . |
| 17 | Luckily , this was not damaged by the hurricane because it was kept at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh . |
| 18 | Alternatively , a purchaser may refuse to provide a parent company guarantee if this was not covered in the heads . |
| 19 | This was not based on the fact that a trade union was an unincorporated body , for in Taff Vale Railway Co . |
| 20 | Although Wheeler was never particularly interested in Roman pottery , he demonstrated the way it could be used to date construc-tional sequences on the Welsh forts , and it is unfortunate that this was not developed in his work at Verulamium , where what must have been a very small proportion of the pottery was published in the Report of 1936 ( Wheeler and Wheeler , 1936 ) . |
| 21 | This was not calculated for sleep position and breast feeding because of the similar exposure distribution of these two variables among Maori children and their controls ( table IV ) . |
| 22 | Part 2 of the National Insurance Act authorized technical retraining schemes for adults , but this was not implemented until 1925 . |
| 23 | It originates from an Italian request to the Council of Ministers in 1973 to identify environmentally ‘ balanced ’ and ‘ unbalanced ’ areas in the Community ; the first attempts to do this were unsuccessful and , though by 1981 it was clear that a new approach based on an environmental information system was the most promising one , funding for this was not secured until 1985 . |
| 24 | This was not planned in any way ; it just happened . |
| 25 | Blessed are you , Simon son of Jonah , for this was not revealed to you by man but by my Father in heaven . |
| 26 | This was not related to the duration of diarrhoea ( χ 2 test , p>0.05 ) . |
| 27 | This was not related to any change in adhesive properties . |
| 28 | However , this was not relied on by the Court of Appeal who reversed the decision on the facts ( see p60 below ) . |
| 29 | Most of these are presumably extragalactic but they include the pulsar PSR1706–44 , although this was not recognized at the time . |
| 30 | However , this was not argued before us , and I prefer to base my decision on the section 222 point by affirming the judge 's first ground as mentioned above . |