Example sentences of "that it was [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agreed , but pointed out that it was n't for little boys . ’ |
| 2 | I decided it all sounded so complicated that it was n't for me . |
| 3 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 4 | I spent a day with her family at Eastbourne — except that it was n't with her family , for I hardly met them . |
| 5 | Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and |
| 6 | Now I knew that it was n't to be said . |
| 7 | Then , ‘ Shall we have coffee first before we have a look around ? ’ he suggested , and Fabia immediately felt warm towards him that it was n't to be a ‘ straight in and out ’ trip . |
| 8 | This would n't always be the case — the pigeon might be able to take cover and elude the peregrine , but the peregrine might equally decide that it was n't worth the chase . |
| 9 | Knowing full well that it was n't on her account that Travis had worked so hard , Leith shrugged . |
| 10 | And so , Nicodemus learned that it was n't by reformation , trying to make himself better , or by being religious , but he need regeneration , that 's what regeneration means . |
| 11 | I do n't recall , well in fact I 'm being sarcastic because I know for a , we know that it was n't in the manifesto for nineteen ninety two . |
| 12 | Joe sincerely believed that it was n't in his nature to be cruel . |
| 13 | No matter how tedious she was in other ways , he had always assumed that it was n't in her nature to be coarse , and certainly she 'd never displayed evidence of the inclination . |
| 14 | And secondly the fact that it was n't in the budget erm and the fact that they 're late means that we 're not also realizing the productivity in other areas that we had anticipated so we 're gon na be some six months late coming in . |
| 15 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 16 | The suggestion made was that it was not about economic development , but about buying off the nationalist community . |
| 17 | The Commission stated that it was not at present in a position to indicate which measures it might propose to the Council in that report . |
| 18 | The reason was that it was not at that time ascertained that those materials were definitely to be used . |
| 19 | If , and it was a very big ‘ if ’ , Riddle 's body had been substituted for the Scapegoat he felt sure that it was not as a convenient way of disposing of the body but to give more effective expression to the hatred which had inspired his killing . |
| 20 | Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him . |
| 21 | The Commissioner pointed out that it was not for him to decide how statutes should be interpreted but he was satisfied that the complaints about odours from the factory had not been ignored . |
| 22 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 23 | The policewoman shot her a look which said that it was not for her to say so , even if she , herself , had been thinking it . |
| 24 | Then she remembered that her therapist had said something about that , had said that it was not for Camille that Scarlet grieved in expectation but for herself and her own pain , implying by her tone that it was really most foolish . |
| 25 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 26 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 27 | Less directly but equally importantly , people living in the vicinity of a large plant would not take kindly to the idea that it was not under the control of human beings who are on the spot and are assumed to know exactly what is happening . |
| 28 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 29 | After waiting around for some considerable time to see if there was any chance that Elector Carl Theodor would offer him even a temporary appointment , Mozart was informed that it was not to be . |
| 30 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |