Example sentences of "[was/were] not [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These results suggest that , although very high or very low poll tax demands could affect the performance of either party , levels of community charge were not themselves the prime determinant of electoral behaviour . |
| 2 | Centrifugal launchers did at least recognise a genuine need , even if they were not themselves the solution . |
| 3 | Mm , I can see them now the outside , they were like made , made to look like wood were n't they the caravans ? |
| 4 | And were n't you the dyke who was extolling the virtues of the single life only months ago ? |
| 5 | Greg thought he was going to fail in his object , and began to close the door , but suddenly , as if to prove the retentiveness of his painter 's eye , Hilary turned round again to him , took a good look , and said : ‘ Were n't you the chap that was at the funeral ? |
| 6 | Legislation has shifted more and more into the federal domain , which was not what the authors of the constitution intended . |
| 7 | This was not what the president promised . |
| 8 | By their diligent eating of carcases they had probably spared the garrison an epidemic or a pestilence , but that was not what the Collector liked about them … though clumsy on the ground , their flight was extraordinarily graceful . |
| 9 | This , however , was not what the Security Council had charged them to do and their attention was focused on the liberation of Kuwait . |
| 10 | Parliament decided that this was not what the parties to arbitration agreements either expected or wanted and abolished the case stated procedure by s1(1) of the Arbitration Act 1979 : see further 15.8.3 . |
| 11 | They would first have inspected judicial practice to see whether almost all other judges were agreed either that the words of a statute must be given their " literal " meaning , even when that was not what the legislators intended , or the opposite , that the words must not be given their literal meaning in these circumstances . |
| 12 | And Summers conceded : ‘ His style of play at times was not what the fans wanted . ’ |
| 13 | The data we have examined suggest that the poll tax was not itself the prime cause of the variation in results either between types of local authority or individual councils . |
| 14 | Was n't she the nightclub singer , Rosalli ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Was n't she the third-century queen of Palmyra , who was captured by the Roman emperor Aurelian ? ’ |
| 16 | Was n't he the rightful heir ? |
| 17 | ‘ Why was n't he the same as other boys ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Was n't he the holes in the universe chap ? ’ |
| 19 | Was n't he the man who had said he would kill her now ? |
| 20 | But was n't he the one she knew ? |
| 21 | Was n't he the one with whom she 'd grown up at Sleet when his father was head keeper before him ? |
| 22 | Was n't he the kid who used to dash across the road , back in Wellport ? |
| 23 | Was n't he the reason for her anger ? |
| 24 | Was n't he the one who had been friendly with Pamella Bordes , or was it Donald Trelford of the Observer ? |
| 25 | What a divine pair you make and was n't I the wicked schemer ? |
| 26 | ‘ Was n't I the best prospect Bermondsey 'ad for a long time before I got me wound ? ’ he asked . |
| 27 | ‘ Was n't I the only bloke who could 'ave give ole Palmer a run fer 'is money ? |
| 28 | Was n't it the vehicle I 'd stopped ? |
| 29 | Was n't it the thing for newly made rock stars to pledge an allegiance to an old jazz hero , a John Coltrane , a Charlie Mingus or onwards into obscurity ? |
| 30 | It had been a devastating rebuke from the quiet little fellow from California ; and as Sheila watched the hurt face of the formidable little woman from the same State ( was n't it the same Church , too ? ) , she almost felt a tinge of sympathy for Mrs Janet Roscoe . |