Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 2 | But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time . |
| 3 | Edward Aveling 's interests in the signs of class were not the same as Eleanor 's . |
| 4 | As for the curves in this selection , the C13 and C14 were not the same , and therefore the work that was possible with one tool could not be repeated on its mirror image with its counterpart . |
| 5 | He went to the US because ‘ Goldsmith decided that if you wanted to be a capitalist the UK and France were not the places to be ’ . |
| 6 | Remarkably , Halifax 's performance meant that the First Division leaders Wigan , 66-0 winners in a 12-try romp at Barrow , were not the day 's top scorers . |
| 7 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 8 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , priests are trying to persuade the survivors that the bat attacks were not the work of evil spirits . |
| 10 | Newspapers , apart from the party paper Neues Deutschland , began to drop the pretence that the troubles were not the main concern throughout the country . |
| 11 | The court was an ultimate court of morality : the issues were not the guilt or innocence of the accused but the guilt or innocence of those who opposed apartheid . ’ |
| 12 | But the caustic critics were not the majority . |
| 13 | Inside the college at Lincoln the students thought that this teacher was a fine teacher and fun but too odd to be offered responsibilities ; and outside the college were a plethora of people who were not the university of Cambridge , anxious to offer every variety of job , pastoral , academic , or administrative . |
| 14 | Clearly well-spoken female gardeners were not the usual clientèle of this hospital . |
| 15 | As late as 1970 members of A $ L , to my knowledge , had never heard of Debord , and if they had were not the least bit interested . |
| 16 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 17 | Were not the BMW 's closest rival . |
| 18 | Filmmakers and critics were not the only ones worrying about the state of British filmmaking , nor was the film industry the only British enterprise losing out to American competition . |
| 19 | You obviously knew they were not the brightest of fellows . ’ |
| 20 | Two months later Gorbachev was saying his comments were not the Tablets of Moses . |
| 21 | For were not the brothels and whorehouses of Panama City and pre-revolutionary Havana developed for the most part for the benefit of American troops ? |
| 22 | Pensions , however , were not the only area which cried out for reform . |
| 23 | These were not the short-legged all-white animals that Buddie kept in his pigsties over by the disused cinder-heap . |
| 24 | As it was , the Church was simply acting to preserve its interests and these were not the same as the interests of the Party . |
| 25 | Gnosticism and Marcion 's onslaught on everything Jewish in the Christian tradition were not the only factors in precipitating the formation of the canon . |
| 26 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |
| 27 | Local reports in Bavaria do , however , apart from registering ‘ loyal ’ opinion , provide some indications that the reactions depicted in the central SD reports were not the only ones to be observed . |
| 28 | Only they were not the words she had expected : it was William who had died . |
| 29 | But expensive as these things were for a king of a small country , they were not the crippling drain on his purse that genuine warfare would have been . |
| 30 | These were not the great nobles . |