Example sentences of "[was/were] not [prep] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 2 | A new generation of bankers who were not around last time will be encouraging them to overreach themselves . |
| 3 | Said , oh you were n't in last year when I came were you ? |
| 4 | A new generation of bankers who were n't around last time will be encouraging them to overreach themselves . |
| 5 | In the standard account of the party 's growth into a modern political organisation over the period 1910–24 , McKibbin ( 1974 ) concludes that the war was not of first importance to its ultimate rise to power : |
| 6 | Perhaps I was not at first sight the most employable of people . |
| 7 | The first real brush between the two sides came on 17 December when Cumberland 's horsemen approached the rear of the baggage train between Shap and Penrith , but it was not till next day that a more serious encounter occurred . |
| 8 | He had problems forming an administration and it was not until 1st July that he was able to tell the Queen of his main ministerial appointments . |
| 9 | He was made aware of his impending appointment about the time of Hunt 's report , but it was not until 1st January , 1859 that he was sent his official letter of appointment . |
| 10 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 11 | It was not until last year that I achieved my ambition to sail there . |
| 12 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for years , it was not until last April that inoperable lung cancer was diagnosed . |
| 13 | Coupled with problems that arose with the apparatus — UA1 for example was beset by difficulties ranging from dirty air-lines to burst pipes — it was not until last November and December that the experiments were able to observe a large sample of proton-antiproton collisions . |
| 14 | Mr Ferguson has been a fan of Schmeichel for four years , but it was not until last summer that he could persuade Denmark 's top club , Brondby , to accept an offer . |
| 15 | Yeah , tell your Mum to give me the twelve pence , er , er the two P cos erm it was n't , it was n't worth last night . |
| 16 | No , it was n't , was n't at last year was it ? |
| 17 | ‘ I thought the Mnarja was n't until next weekend ? ’ |
| 18 | However , it was n't until last year 's event in Nottingham that she started to perform manoeuvres like throwing her paddle away and hand surfing in competition . |
| 19 | It was n't until last autumn that the producers were able to say ‘ Forget Moscow ; deal directly with us . ’ |