Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | workhouses were not all the dark satanic mills of legend . |
| 2 | But they were not all the same groups within the different daily and Sunday categories each year : for instance , Beaverbrook was a top daily but not a top Sunday group in 1947 . |
| 3 | But Fenella thought the sounds and the movements were not all the sidh . |
| 4 | ‘ Chubby ’ Eliot and self had a bit of a dogfight for a while trying to get on each others ' tails as we were not certain the other was not a 109 until we saw the roundels . ’ |
| 5 | Obviously if it were n't cold the ice would melt . |
| 6 | One niggle was that the ends of the shoulder harness adjustment straps were unfinished — if you were n't careful the strap ran right through the buckle . |
| 7 | They were n't aware the were on that they could send them messages . |
| 8 | They were found under a bridge , listening to their scanner , but its batteries had run down and they were n't aware the police were so close . |
| 9 | She was not grief-stricken the way she had been when her father died , but sorrow was a weight which kept her from opening her eyes on a world where she would sorely miss his company . |
| 10 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 11 | The French replied that the devastation and terrorism that continued was not all the fault of ‘ dissident ’ nationalist Vietnamese or bandits and although it might not have the status of an ‘ official ’ armed struggle the results were indistinguishable . |
| 12 | Was not that the main thrust of his observations ? |
| 13 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 14 | Because the distribution of the data from the Barrett 's mucosa was not Gaussian the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to assess the variation between EGF expression in normal cardiac mucosa , Barrett 's intestinal mucosa , and Barrett 's junctional/cardiac mucosa . |
| 15 | When normality for either group was not reasonable the corresponding test used was the Mann-Whitney , although this assumed that the shapes of the two underlying distributions ( for regulated and random ) were identical but possibly shifted in terms of the median . |
| 16 | Mr Turner said Mr Nichol was not surprised the police did not intend to re-open the case . |
| 17 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
| 18 | The Bf110 , he thought , as he flew sedately north towards Denmark , was not half the plane the 109 was . |
| 19 | He was n't sure the police chief would still be in his office but the gravelly voice answered immediately . |
| 20 | Was n't that the plan ? ’ |
| 21 | How lucky she had been to meet Violet , but was n't that the story of her life ? |
| 22 | ‘ Was n't that the one who sung ‘ Some o' These Days ’ ? ’ the old man asked . |
| 23 | Was n't that the trial where only about a quarter of the patients were actually randomised ? |
| 24 | And was n't that the completely wrong thing to say ? " |
| 25 | ‘ Was n't that the name of your old guardian , Harry ? ’ |
| 26 | GUIL : Was n't that the end ? |
| 27 | Memento mori , was n't that the phrase ? |
| 28 | The Gnomes were very interested in this ; as Flaherty said , you could not know too much about these things , although it was a pig 's pity that such a jewel could n't be worn by the King of the day when he went about his reigning , because was n't that the purpose of crowns and jewels anyway ? |
| 29 | " James , was n't that the damndest thing at Ken Billings " ? |
| 30 | Was n't that the time when the Bank of England stepped in to avoid the whole City suffering ? |