Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were not the case it would be a dead subject , beautiful perhaps but boring . |
| 2 | If this were not the case , then the collocation dictionaries would not adequately represent the test data . |
| 3 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 4 | If this were not the case , human energies would be endlessly employed in rediscovering the wheel and , indeed , every other mental , physical and emotional discovery ever made . |
| 5 | While in particular contexts some readings may well be much more likely than others ( if this were not the case , many utterances would be harder to understand than they are ) , the number of possible readings is clearly limited only by imagination . |
| 6 | If this were not the case and F t < E ( S T ) , a trader who bought a futures contract now and held it to delivery would , on average , make a profit of E ( S T ) - F t . |
| 7 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 8 | But suppose this were not the case . |
| 9 | If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins . |
| 10 | If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them . |
| 11 | This was not a question of either niceness or laziness . |
| 12 | This was not a question . |
| 13 | This was not a question , it was an answer . |
| 14 | He said this was not a change in policy , because peacekeepers had a duty to see that no harm came to civilians . |
| 15 | This was not a conversation they could safely have had within earshot of any educated Scot . |
| 16 | This was not a threat to the capitalist class , however , because the leaders of the trade unions and workers parties were normally incorporated into the political system and educated to the imperatives and requirements of capitalism . |
| 17 | The latter was applying a social policy on which reasonable men could differ ; it had decided against differential rating and this was not a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable corporation could come to it . |
| 18 | The conventional view that this was not a subject for girls was challenged by Sophie Bryant 's success , notably in sending a succession of North Londoners to study mathematics at Girton . |
| 19 | Dave Speed : ‘ This was not a Budget for jobs ’ |
| 20 | The Reporter said this was not a concern of the Children 's Panel . |
| 21 | But this was not a circumstance of homicide . |
| 22 | Having concluded that this was not a contract for the sale of goods by description … |
| 23 | But , of course , this was not a home , just a weekday lodging . |
| 24 | We may recall that this was not a work of empirical investigation but an example of feminist folklinguistics , though informed by the author 's linguistic training . |
| 25 | This was not a man who was capable of being serious about the devolution of power , and we must seek the reasons for his adoption and promotion of Indirect Rule elsewhere . |
| 26 | Jean Southworth , QC , in mitigation , said : ‘ This was not a case of him taking away the virginity of this young woman . |
| 27 | He added that this was not a case for a free pardon because — wait for it — there was no proof that Cooper and McMahon were innocent . |
| 28 | watched — observed — reflected and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude and resignation only . |
| 29 | Pierburg then sought to obtain photographs of a car which was situated in California , and it was held ( plainly correctly ) that this was not a case of evidence being obtained ‘ abroad ’ and so the Convention was inapplicable . |
| 30 | This was not a case where the relevant information was restricted to senior management or to a specific category of staff . |