Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I interpret it that erm parents saw that they were being asked to do something false , and if I can just correct you on something , these were n't the Governors ' proposals to seek opting out , they were the proposals of a group of parents , some of whom happen to be parent-Governors , but when the Governors themselves came to vote on whether we thought |
| 2 | What eventually brought him to reconsider his theory was not the critics ' doubts . |
| 3 | that while injury to Lonrho 's business was foreseeable it was not the defendants ' purpose to bring it about . |
| 4 | The power of trade unions ensured that it was not the workers ' wages that suffered but the employers ' profits . |
| 5 | Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea . |
| 6 | The change of abode and servants was not the princes ' only misfortune . |