Example sentences of "[conj] was n't [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strolled into the only other room that was n't a bedroom . |
| 2 | or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign . |
| 3 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 4 | Now it seems that was n't the case . |
| 5 | Only she had the awful feeling that was n't the end of it at all , and that was the really scary part of all this . |
| 6 | It stuck to the facts and was n't a weepy . ’ |
| 7 | And that 's not from a Conservative , that 's from the present Chairman of C N D , and was n't a spectacle that was last week . |
| 8 | She 'd collected her wedding dress , and it was n't what she wanted ; it did n't fit properly , and the woman in Drogheda who had made it had gone away on holiday , and her assistant did n't know anything about it , and was n't a seamstress , so now what the hell was she supposed to do ? |
| 9 | And Mrs McMahon , who naturally had n't seen it because had n't she just this minute arrived back from the village and was n't the dress still in its bag , looked up at the three hovering on the stairs as though it were a divine deliverance , mumbled vaguely about a headache coming on , and thankfully abandoned her responsibilities to whoever was willing to take them on . |
| 10 | And was n't the leadership contest hastily arranged precisely so that a new shadow cabinet could be harrying the Conservatives throughout the summer ? |
| 11 | How could healing from a priest when I had no faith be of any assistance , and was n't the whole of that phoney world perfectly epitomized by the belief that the wanderings of an old man in the Oxfordshire lanes in the 1930s , seeking the energies of various plants , could possibly be relevant to a most dreaded disease ? |
| 12 | The cause of death will now be established by a home office pathologist : Friends of the dead woman say she doted on her two young children and was n't the sort of person to have contemplated suicide — the pathologist 's report will show whether or not that turns out to be true . |