Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] not [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the recent establishment of C&P Ltd , all of ICI 's interests in acrylics are fully integrated as a single Acrylics Business [ which was n't always the case ] . |
| 2 | When Charles echoed the name uncomprehendingly , the CO 's frown gave way to his own special indication of relish which was n't quite a smile , more a contraction of the upper lip . |
| 3 | erm we have a welfare state , which erm ensures that very few people are living at absolute poverty — you do have shoes to wear , you do have some sort of food to eat — which was n't necessarily the case in the nineteen thirties — and people have had different education and training , their lives are very different . |
| 4 | Barry Tuckett drove smoothly and quietly , not contributing to the conversation in the back seat , which was n't really a conversation but Bernice 's potted biography of Billy . |
| 5 | Traditionally , literacy campaigns in peripheral rural areas would rely on the Bible , which was not just a source of reading material but , also , a way of encouraging conformity . |
| 6 | It has also been pointed out by Kendall ( 1975 ) that the original 1936 legislation on union rights within the enterprise gave the ‘ most representative ’ unions in the plant the right to bargain , which was not necessarily the majority union . |
| 7 | Such was the enthusiasm Tom Whittaker inspired that players willingly trained five days a week , which was not then the fashion . |
| 8 | Osaka maintained its importance as a financial , commercial and industrial centre , but despite a population of over 1.5 million in 1920 was still dwarfed by Tokyo , which was not only the locus of a highly centralized national administration but attracted financial , commercial , industrial , educational and cultural activities as well . |
| 9 | Appointments to these posts were in the gift of the monarch on either side , but the power of local lords made the choice a foregone conclusion in most instances if the said lords wished to serve , which was not always the case . |