Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [not/n't] [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 | Briefly , she wondered if this were n't the sort of thing the Doctor was after , but decided to continue searching . |
| 12 | Goodness , this was n't a menu , it was a volume . |
| 13 | This was n't a passage , it was a wide room with walls to a number that Rincewind did n't dare to contemplate , and ei- and 7a passages radiating from it . |
| 14 | She cleaned as never before , with care and interest ( this was n't a chore now ) , getting on to her knees with a scrubbing brush and bowl of water , behind cupboards and along skirting boards . |
| 15 | This was n't a unit at all , only seemed like one , and Alice sat inwardly separated , thinking that Pat probably felt the same . |
| 16 | ‘ Gradually he got to drinking with his Bohemian friends , ’ she said , ‘ and soon this was n't a home . |
| 17 | It was the only indication , apart from the price of the beer , that this was n't a decade ago . |
| 18 | I must say this was n't a problem for anyone here and I would hope that moving the string ferrule does n't affect the brightness or jangle factor overmuch . |
| 19 | Before people started to need calendars this was n't a problem . |
| 20 | This was n't a reflection of his feelings about me , I knew that , and when pressed he would only say that the most resounding impression she gave was of her innate class . |
| 21 | What looks like a fairly minor scrape would cost me the best part of a planned skiing trip at Christmas to repair if this was n't a company car . |
| 22 | This was n't a restaurant he could afford to eat in and he was enjoying himself . |
| 23 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 24 | This was n't a tea-dance with cups of tea and staid sandwiches : it was a slick nightclub where the waiters and the band flirted like gigolos . |
| 25 | This was n't a game . |
| 26 | Since he was the majority shareholder , this would have meant his family getting hold of the business — and much as we liked them , this was n't a prospect we exactly relished . |
| 27 | This was n't a search at all . |
| 28 | This was n't a bunch of Hooray Henrys with more money than sense . |
| 29 | Still , this was n't a fellow to give up easily . |
| 30 | This was n't an answer that a fifteen-year-old girl would give , it was a woman 's reply . |