Example sentences of "this [was/were] not [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is well established that any Palestinian delegates must be acceptable to all parties : if this were not already the case , the Palestinian delegation would be made up of PLO members . |
| 2 | If this were not so a plaintiff could , by seeking mandamus , evade the restrictive rule that an action in tort for an injunction to restrain breach of statutory duty will lie only if the duty is owed to the plaintiff individually because , as we have seen , the applicant for mandamus only needs to have a ‘ sufficient interest ’ in the performance of the duty . |
| 3 | If this were not so the risk of doing something new would not be justified . |
| 4 | This was not just a problem for women in printing : it was one by all women who were drawn into industrial trades just as mechanization was creating a new division of labour . |
| 5 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 6 | This was not just a matter of revival of basic industries in previously depressed areas . |
| 7 | El-Gharbi seemed to feel under no pressure at all to reduce his asking figure , and Owen felt that this was not just a matter of negotiating tactics . |
| 8 | This was not just a bishop married to the see and people of Durham , it was a love-marriage . |
| 9 | But this was not just the effect of slower markets and smaller volumes on commission and fee income . |
| 10 | But this was not just the effect of Stalin per se , despite his perverse attraction as a sort of singular-universal who did in effect unite ‘ man ’ with ‘ history ’ : it was also the result of the theoretical collapse of the singular-universal as a totalizing concept that could save history from the aberrant consequences of anti-labour . |
| 11 | This was not just an effect of small scale distribution , but perhaps particularly due to their explicit problematisation of realism and of the conventional pleasures of cinema-viewing within the film text . |
| 12 | said that that there was no generally accepted international meaning of the phrase ; he recognised that in some jurisdictions , public law matters were regarded as outside the categories of civil and commercial , but that this was not universally the case ; he , but not the other members of the court , felt that there was insufficient evidence as to the approach of Norwegian law , but was prepared to give the request the benefit of the doubt . |
| 13 | However , this was not simply a conflict between radical process and radical content . |
| 14 | This was not altogether an exaggeration as he had lost much of his stomach in his operation and was supposed to be on a rigid diet . |
| 15 | This was not primarily a gesture of support for , or solidarity with , the Irish . |
| 16 | However , this was not exclusively the case . |
| 17 | This most frequently benefited Gloucester , as the dominant lord , but this was not invariably the case and the ducal councillor Edmund Hastings of Pickering placed one of his sons in Northumberland 's household . |
| 18 | This most frequently benefited Gloucester , as the dominant lord , but this was not invariably the case and the ducal councillor Edmund Hastings of Pickering placed one of his sons in Northumberland 's household . |
| 19 | This was not invariably the case . |
| 20 | For the literate group of women who might be expected to read magazines , this was in fact a transitional period : freed to a greater extent than ever before from the shadow of death , this was not yet the time of the educated lay interest in infant psychology which was soon to be aroused by Montessori , Froebel , Susan Isaacs and the Freudians generally ; nor had the hygienist movement yet got under way . |
| 21 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 22 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 23 | This was not only a matter of saying yes to petitioners and having the resources to say yes often , although Gloucester was well placed in this respect . |
| 24 | This was not only a matter of saying yes to petitioners and having the resources to say yes often , although Gloucester was well placed in this respect . |
| 25 | This was not only the place , this was the Time . |
| 26 | In an article entitled ‘ Two Problems in Legal History ’ ( 1908 ) 24 L.Q.R. 392 , W. C. Bolland has pointed out that this was not only an order of the Sovereign but an Act by the Parliament , since it is in the Parliament Rolls and under the authority of Parliament . |
| 27 | It may then be that today situations where men alone are priests , or equally the fact that Christ is a male symbol and God is conceptualized using male metaphors , may make God appear to be ‘ male ’ in a way in which this was not earlier the case . |
| 28 | Scarlet admitted that if this was not precisely the case , there was yet room for considering it probable : she had often found difficulty in summoning the aid of the force , being directed by a controller to different stations which in turn would advise her to try elsewhere . |
| 29 | This was not quite a case of the bitten getting up and rewarding the biter because Kent exposed Hollwyood , which is not quite the British movie industry . |
| 30 | This was not quite the end , however ; there were one or two loose ends to be tidied up . |