Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adj] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Birkett committee of 1937 which examined the question of abortion was informed that many working-class women were not aware that abortion was illegal . |
| 2 | He , while happy to be of some use , was not content that inequality on this scale should persist — inequality of opportunity , of course , for as a station-master he was a hierarchical man . |
| 3 | But , like a minority of Imperial subjects , he was not sure that fear was sufficient justification for the isolation of whole worlds from the rest of the universe . |
| 4 | With little effective pollution control being undertaken in California , it was not surprising that air pollution worsened during the 1950s . |
| 5 | The trial judge found that it was not foreseeable that fuel oil on water would catch fire but there was some foreseeable damage in the fouling . |
| 6 | I was not aware that circumcision might be a painful , controversial , and perhaps an unethical procedure , but I planned the next attempt in compliance with the editor 's requests . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Tess was not hopeful that Angel would come in answer to her letter . |
| 8 | He was given an appointment but then rang back and said he was n't sure that counselling was the right thing after all . |