Example sentences of "it was not [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her breath was laboured , the oxy-bottle moulded round her shoulder all but exhausted , but it was n't that that made her back-pedal , twisting her heel on a rock , smothering her shout of pain . |
| 2 | It was n't that this dispute between my dad and me about whether there was a God or not really meant anything any more , but rather the fact of the history of the dispute — the reality of its course , not the substance of the original disagreement — was what prevented me from ending it . |
| 3 | It was n't that these were definite ; I just wanted life to be different , to be somewhere else . |
| 4 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 5 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 6 | It was n't until two a.m. that I saw the Gorengs . |
| 7 | It was n't until 8 pm. that they let the Red Cross through . |
| 8 | The same with photos — in fact it was n't until those Steve Double ones that we were really happy with our pictures . |
| 9 | The same with photos — in fact it was n't until those Steve Double ones that we were really happy with our pictures . |
| 10 | It is quite likely therefore that a meeting of Lambarde and Shakespeare took place at this time , although it was n't until 1594 that Shakespeare made his mark , for it was at Christmas of that year that he was Summoned to appear at Court . |
| 11 | It was not that each child was continually talking but every now and then a child would speak to his neighbour or another would leave his place quietly and walk over to another child to speak with him . |
| 12 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 13 | It was not that both sides were preparing for some future war to deter the other side . |
| 14 | Yet it was not until 1612 that the little selection entitled Parthenia got into print . |
| 15 | About this time , Vermuyden vanished from public life , although it was not until 1677 that he died , full of years and riches , and was buried in St Margaret 's , Westminster . |
| 16 | It was not until 584 that his bid for the throne made serious headway , and then only after the murder of Chilperic had left certain of his followers without a patron . |
| 17 | Software selection and use in this school has been guided by the policy stated above and it was not until such policy decisions were taken that appropriate software could be chosen . |
| 18 | During the crisis which preceded the Civil War , an attempt had been made to tie the Crown to regular Parliaments with the Triennial Act of 1641 , but this Act had been repealed in 1664 and it was not until 1694 that an Act guaranteeing triennial Parliaments was passed . |
| 19 | The Welsh bishop of Llandaff seems never to have submitted , and it was not until 1107 that Anselm was able to consecrate a bishop thoroughly devoted to the interests of Canterbury . |
| 20 | It was not until 779 that Offa was able to defeat Cynewulf in battle and take Bensington , near Dorchester , from him ( ASC A , s.a. 777 ) and begin the re-annexation of this territory . |
| 21 | It was not until two o'clock therefore that they became anxious enough to call him on his car telephone — only to find it had been switched off . |
| 22 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 23 | The Chronicle A ( s.a. 685 ) says that Caedwalla began to contend for the kingship in 685 , but it was not until 686 that he established himself as king over the western Saxons . |
| 24 | It was not until 1589 that a single secretary , Louis de Revol , was entrusted with the supervision of foreign affairs in general ; and he was still an administrator , not a policy-maker . |
| 25 | Despite giving Wynne this nonstop array of almost magical material it was not until late 1962 , after the Cuban crisis was over , that both Penkovsky and Wynne were arrested by the KGB . |
| 26 | It was not until half way through the sombre reception that doctors told Phil 's anguished family he would survive . |
| 27 | It was not until 164 BC , almost a century later , that a public sundial was erected that was appropriate to Rome 's latitude . |
| 28 | Montanari was no doubt puzzled , and it was not until 1782 that the cause of Algol 's variations was explained by John Goodricke , a most unusual astronomer inasmuch as he was deaf and dumb , and died at the early age of 21 . |
| 29 | But it was not until 1693 that William Penn first proposed a form of European union . |
| 30 | However , it was not until scientific ornithology began to get into its stride in the l9th century that some of the more remarkable aspects of the cuckoo 's behaviour began to be widely known . |