Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] n't [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 2 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | It really was n't worth the effort . |
| 4 | The experience was painful enough to ensure that no-one did it again ; it simply was n't worth the risk . |
| 5 | War on Want almost certainly were n't at the top of the list . |
| 6 | She definitely was n't in the mood for a play about star-crossed lovers ! |
| 7 | Sir announced the the end of debate one , I certainly was n't under the impression that it had finished . |