Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] not [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were they not the ones who had the fancy dress party the Victorian dress party at the hotel ? |
| 2 | Such a stand might look principled , were it not a sham . |
| 3 | Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information , Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service . |
| 4 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 5 | But , presumably , he would do , he would work very hard were he not a royal person , would he not ? |
| 6 | Was I not the toughest kid in the whole street ? |
| 7 | Not here , surely , among strangers : yet where now was she not a stranger ? |
| 8 | Was she not a thief ? |
| 9 | In other words , was there not a feeling that , first through illness and then through his premature demise , he had been supplanted in his rights ( through ‘ natural ’ causation , we emphasise ) , much as Jacob supplanted Esau 's rights so many centuries ago ( through devious schemes ) . |
| 10 | Was there not a training school of some kind in north Norfolk where German uniforms were worn ? |
| 11 | Was there not a case for a corporate quality programme to bring together the different initiatives around the company ? |
| 12 | Was there not the assurance that God had demonstrated a concern for humanity , irrespective of spatial coordinates ? |
| 13 | Was he not a prosperous builder ? |
| 14 | As she considered this , Hilda intercepted her gaze , saluted her , and majestically , graciously , demonstratively , voluptuously blew a kiss across the room : Liz waved back , less flamboyantly but with equal composure , for what did it matter , after all , that Hilda Stark was there , was it not a tribute to them both , to the efficacy of the cure ? |
| 15 | Was it not a drunken pedlar in a parson 's habit ? |
| 16 | Was it not a direct insult , an attempt to humiliate me ? |
| 17 | Was it not a benefit to him to have the crew sail the ship home rather than abandon him and it in a foreign port ? |
| 18 | But was it not a position that he had found ideal in his 10 years as a recall man ? |
| 19 | But was it Woolworths or Marks who had that little slogan , was it , nothing , not a was it not a penny , nothing more than a penny or not a thruppence |
| 20 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
| 21 | Was it not the case that Beesley 's name had been omitted from the initial list of those saved , and actually included among the drowned in the final casualty bulletin ? |
| 22 | Traditional landlordism might be economically undesirable , but was it not the cement which held together a social structure which might otherwise collapse into anarchy and revolution ? |
| 23 | Was it not the third Wednesday ? |
| 24 | ‘ Was it not an instinctive reaction to break and see if you could help them , just in case you had to stop to do something about them ? ’ |