Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [not/n't] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were they not the ones who had the fancy dress party the Victorian dress party at the hotel ? |
| 2 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 3 | Was there not the assurance that God had demonstrated a concern for humanity , irrespective of spatial coordinates ? |
| 4 | Was it not the case that Beesley 's name had been omitted from the initial list of those saved , and actually included among the drowned in the final casualty bulletin ? |
| 5 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
| 6 | Traditional landlordism might be economically undesirable , but was it not the cement which held together a social structure which might otherwise collapse into anarchy and revolution ? |