Example sentences of "and [adj] was not [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the cause , so far in 1991 record sales in the U.S.A. are down by 20% on last year 's figures — and that was n't a great year either . |
| 2 | And that was n't a bad shot . |
| 3 | And that was n't the only eye-opener which Jane had that day . |
| 4 | And that was n't the Prime Minister , was it , being nasty about the Germans in the Commons last week but the editor of the Daily Beast ? |
| 5 | And that was n't the first day , that was eight days er eight days solid from Sunday to the Monday following Monday . |
| 6 | Er er and and and that was n't the case . |
| 7 | And that was n't the only dark cloud on the horizon . |
| 8 | ‘ We feel a defender has to be able to defend well first and foremost and that was n't the best part of Jeff 's game . |
| 9 | ‘ We feel a defender has to be able to defend well first and foremost and that was n't the best part of Jeff 's game . |
| 10 | As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated . |
| 11 | The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom , and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen 's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef … |
| 12 | ‘ And that was not a hint for you to offer me a bed for the night , Miss Rose Fenemore . |
| 13 | Mary herself had to sign her act of revocation in 1555 , and that was not the only matter for which the queen 's signature was necessary . |
| 14 | And that was not the end of it , for there were permutations . |
| 15 | But joint Charlton manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ Nobody begrudged Robert his move — and that was not the case with a couple of players when they left . ’ |
| 16 | And that was not the feeling engendered by her relations with either of the Crumwallises , for example , or with Mr McWhirter . |
| 17 | One lick led to another , in her experience , and that was not the idea this afternoon , there were serious things in train . |
| 18 | And this was n't the hotel or anything . |
| 19 | And this was n't an Anglican church , erm it was a Baptist church , and when I was seven I understood that Jesus had died for me and then I asked him into my heart and when I was twelve I was baptized , which is the equivalent really of being confirmed . |
| 20 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 21 | The latter was applying a social policy on which reasonable men could differ ; it had decided against differential rating and this was not a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable corporation could come to it . |
| 22 | And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times . |
| 23 | Without an ice axe and with only borrowed instep crampons my climbing ability was somewhat limited , and this was not the place to take risks . |
| 24 | None the less , the law was not static , and this was not the last word on actionability . |
| 25 | A case comes to hand of two children , a boy of 8 years and a 10-year-old girl , who broke into their local school and ‘ then completely wrecked the school furnishings ’ , and this was not the only instance of vandalism and arson in schools . |
| 26 | And this was not the moment to suggest that Emilia , with her refusal to let go of Cambridge , to be truly present in the parish , might herself be at fault . |
| 27 | Being familiar with Elstree , Spencer elected to fly Oscar Whiskey from there , and taking-off was not a major problem , despite the length of the runway . |
| 28 | But lineage pure and simple was not the only consideration . |