Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] not [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is well established that any Palestinian delegates must be acceptable to all parties : if this were not already the case , the Palestinian delegation would be made up of PLO members . |
| 2 | If this were not so a plaintiff could , by seeking mandamus , evade the restrictive rule that an action in tort for an injunction to restrain breach of statutory duty will lie only if the duty is owed to the plaintiff individually because , as we have seen , the applicant for mandamus only needs to have a ‘ sufficient interest ’ in the performance of the duty . |
| 3 | If this were not so the risk of doing something new would not be justified . |
| 4 | This was not just a bishop married to the see and people of Durham , it was a love-marriage . |
| 5 | When the scandal broke the media too placed them there , confirming how odd and ungraspable it all was ; confirming , too , that this was not just a political morass , but cinema , and fun . |
| 6 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 7 | This was not just a problem for women in printing : it was one by all women who were drawn into industrial trades just as mechanization was creating a new division of labour . |
| 8 | This was not just a polite brush-off , for Steel-Maitland was anxious to find a seat for Hewins ( who was a tariff reform professor of economics who would be a great asset in parliament ) and finally managed to do so . |
| 9 | This was not just a matter of revival of basic industries in previously depressed areas . |
| 10 | This was not just a ‘ one-off ’ mistake as I have two examples , both half fare , and in case the type is too small to see , they are the two bottom examples of the single tickets illustrated . |
| 11 | El-Gharbi seemed to feel under no pressure at all to reduce his asking figure , and Owen felt that this was not just a matter of negotiating tactics . |
| 12 | But this was not just the effect of slower markets and smaller volumes on commission and fee income . |
| 13 | But this was not just the effect of Stalin per se , despite his perverse attraction as a sort of singular-universal who did in effect unite ‘ man ’ with ‘ history ’ : it was also the result of the theoretical collapse of the singular-universal as a totalizing concept that could save history from the aberrant consequences of anti-labour . |
| 14 | This was not just an effect of small scale distribution , but perhaps particularly due to their explicit problematisation of realism and of the conventional pleasures of cinema-viewing within the film text . |
| 15 | This was not just an old man 's hatred of change ; the sonnet Steamboats , Viaducts , and Railways ( 1833 ) is surprisingly in favour of these evidences of man 's ability , and concludes : |
| 16 | said that that there was no generally accepted international meaning of the phrase ; he recognised that in some jurisdictions , public law matters were regarded as outside the categories of civil and commercial , but that this was not universally the case ; he , but not the other members of the court , felt that there was insufficient evidence as to the approach of Norwegian law , but was prepared to give the request the benefit of the doubt . |
| 17 | This was not simply a hollow hewn out of the mound ; a room to admire or to sit in . |
| 18 | This was not simply a marginal grievance for the French workers : it was the dominant source of their resentment about their situation as manual workers in French society . ’ |
| 19 | This was not simply a boastful assertion of the worth of his own cultural background , for there is no doubt that at this time the Dalmatians included theologians , philosophers , poets and lawyers whose ‘ minds were admired by Italy itself ’ . |
| 20 | However , this was not simply a conflict between radical process and radical content . |
| 21 | Eliot recognized that this was not simply the last poem in his sequence but also its culmination , in which the themes and textures of the preceding three parts would be gathered together in a final statement . |
| 22 | This was not altogether an exaggeration as he had lost much of his stomach in his operation and was supposed to be on a rigid diet . |
| 23 | What she really meant was that the child 's affections were being alienated ; this was not wholly a fair charge . |
| 24 | This was not primarily a gesture of support for , or solidarity with , the Irish . |
| 25 | However , this was not exclusively the case . |
| 26 | This most frequently benefited Gloucester , as the dominant lord , but this was not invariably the case and the ducal councillor Edmund Hastings of Pickering placed one of his sons in Northumberland 's household . |
| 27 | This most frequently benefited Gloucester , as the dominant lord , but this was not invariably the case and the ducal councillor Edmund Hastings of Pickering placed one of his sons in Northumberland 's household . |
| 28 | This was not invariably the case . |
| 29 | It would take a predator the size of an eagle to do that , and this was not exactly the highlands of Scotland . |
| 30 | This was not yet a mass movement , but the basis for a large-scale mobilization of anti-war opinion was at last being laid . |