Example sentences of "[adj] 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 | It was further confirmed that while members of ASMT had been rightly involved in the process of planning the 93/94 visits via Plan requests etc. , ASMT meetings as such were not the place to negotiate details of the programme . |
| 12 | These were not a success . |
| 13 | Foreign correspondents who visited polling stations in Havana saw a number of ballot papers marked ‘ No ’ , spoiled in other ways or left blank , although these were not a majority . |
| 14 | These were not the stuff of ‘ secrets ’ . |
| 15 | These were not the driver ants of my childhood nightmares , however similar they might be , but remote , New World cousins . |
| 16 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 17 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 18 | Lastly , it is worth pointing out that that presence in the territory of the country of establishment must be intended to be permanent , or at least of an indefinite duration , because if that were not the case there would be no distinction between establishment and the supply of services . |
| 19 | Public business could not be carried on if that were not the case . |
| 20 | If that were not the case then we would n't have er public consultation exercise and ask for people 's views in terms of which routes they support . |
| 21 | As Lord Justice Lloyd has said , if that were not the rule , no one would safely be able to advise litigants in personal injury cases to settle claims , or know what to pay into court . |