Example sentences of "[was/were] n't the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were n't the dog I locked in the tractor-shed , that 's all I know . ’ |
| 2 | These were n't the real reasons . |
| 3 | On the other hand , order out of chaos and the rebirth of a defeated nation were admirable reasons for being attracted to Fascism , yet they were n't the real ones in her case , and even if Hitler had mesmerised her very conclusively for a time , she was older and wiser now and able to revise her view of a man who could change his principles so casually in the light of expediency . |
| 4 | ‘ There just were n't the windshifts to give us leverage , ’ Conner admitted . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew you were n't the composing machine they say you are . ’ |
| 6 | But those were n't the impediments . |
| 7 | The medical profession were n't the fools I had taken them for . |
| 8 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 9 | He said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school ! |
| 10 | But they were n't the same superior quality as those Mr Watson Taylor brought because they wore out . |
| 11 | Oh , we were n't the only ones . |
| 12 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 13 | Their feelings were like mine and they were n't the stereotypical bulldykes I had previously imagined them to be . |
| 14 | They were n't the only ones who snubbed Jack . |
| 15 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
| 16 | Methinks that the Dolls were n't the ‘ damp-squib ’ that Nick Kent would have led us to believe , because if you look closely at the increasing number of British ‘ punk ’ bands emerging by the shipload , you will see in each one , a little bit of the Dolls . |
| 17 | And we were n't the only delegates to be suffering from jet lag : AI members from 70-plus countries were represented from Moscow and Kuwait , who spoke with their colleagues from the new sections : Philippines , Mauritius , Sierra Leone and Argentina . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has all its marbles in the right place when it comes to designing and building fault-tolerant Unix systems — it would n't be an important partner of Hewlett-Packard Co if that were n't the case , but it still needs to get its act together on the marketing and finance side . |
| 19 | Occasionally Princess Margaret 's son , Viscount Linley , and the Princes Andrew and Edward might come to play for the afternoon but there certainly were n't the comings and goings many have assumed . |
| 20 | Or a couple , who talked a lot about how things had been , and how they were n't the same now . |
| 21 | Though they were n't the rangy mustangs they took him to mean . |
| 22 | But bumps and bruises were n't the worst injuries he received : early in the race , fired by the desire to produce the perfect picture , Evans began taking photographs without his sunglasses on , and in the Sahara , that 's a deadly mistake . |
| 23 | " You must have known that you were n't the first . |
| 24 | Things , he often told Stella , were n't the same , and neither was he . |
| 25 | We were n't the muppets , they were . |
| 26 | Protheroe and Latimer were n't the only people who had trouble tracking Culley down . |
| 27 | Briefly , she wondered if this were n't the sort of thing the Doctor was after , but decided to continue searching . |
| 28 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 29 | They were n't the kind of people who could get themselves together and organized , it was a more and more the bottom end of the scale and people who were actually erm you know , really powerless in many ways . |
| 30 | ‘ You deserve it , but I was afraid they were n't the sort of people to make wills and the house would go to the Crown or whatever they do in these cases . ’ |