Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] not [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information , Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service . |
| 2 | But , presumably , he would do , he would work very hard were he not a royal person , would he not ? |
| 3 | Was I not the toughest kid in the whole street ? |
| 4 | Was he not a prosperous builder ? |
| 5 | Was it not a drunken pedlar in a parson 's habit ? |
| 6 | Was it not a direct insult , an attempt to humiliate me ? |
| 7 | Was it not the third Wednesday ? |
| 8 | ‘ Was it not an instinctive reaction to break and see if you could help them , just in case you had to stop to do something about them ? ’ |