Example sentences of "was n't [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , there was a boy there who was n't 'alf a saucebox , he was always trying to get a look at me legs and drawers — ’ |
| 2 | " Was n't that a bit butch ? " |
| 3 | And was n't that a joke by the gods ? |
| 4 | The Gnomes were very interested in this ; as Flaherty said , you could not know too much about these things , although it was a pig 's pity that such a jewel could n't be worn by the King of the day when he went about his reigning , because was n't that the purpose of crowns and jewels anyway ? |
| 5 | Was n't that the plan ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Was n't that the name of your old guardian , Harry ? ’ |
| 7 | Was n't that the trial where only about a quarter of the patients were actually randomised ? |
| 8 | How lucky she had been to meet Violet , but was n't that the story of her life ? |
| 9 | Now was n't that the truth ? she thought , as she watched him striding away . |
| 10 | Was n't that the truth ? |
| 11 | Was n't that the time when the Bank of England stepped in to avoid the whole City suffering ? |
| 12 | Memento mori , was n't that the phrase ? |
| 13 | GUIL : Was n't that the end ? |
| 14 | THE policemen on the gate of Downing Street would normally have told him to clear off , dressed as he was in an ill-fitting tweed jacket and blue moon boots — and was n't that an ice-axe in his right hand ? |
| 15 | If it was n't far the ham … |
| 16 | I think it relates perhaps to the fact that er the city institutions and the city law firms er concentrated on quality and competitiveness , value for money , cost saving was n't necessary a part of the issue . |
| 17 | The trouble was , it should never have been parked in that corner in the first place , so there was n't much the owner could say , apart from making the air blue for half an hour or so . |
| 18 | Once or twice I 've wondered whether it was n't all a trap . |
| 19 | It 'd be just like the country if there was n't all the noise from the traffic . |
| 20 | And she was n't such a push-over she was going to melt just because she 'd fallen in love with a man with a heart of ice . |
| 21 | Going to Dundee University , then , was n't such a culture shock . |
| 22 | I was n't such a fool as to let de Michelet sell everything . " |
| 23 | er , and we were n't very busy , so it was n't such a fag . |
| 24 | I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint . |
| 25 | But way back er there was n't such a thing as a pet shop . |
| 26 | There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress . |
| 27 | Quite often we found we went to places where there was n't such a thing ’ . |
| 28 | On the earliest journeys of 1825 , there was n't such a thing as a station . |
| 29 | Crowther 's concern that the lay press was weak in its coverage of science led him in 1928 to confront The Manchester Guardian 's legendary editor C. P. Scott with the quip that although there was n't such a profession as science journalism , he , J. G. Crowther , proposed to invent it . |
| 30 | But the female pop psyche was split ; its dark underbelly exited in the black R&B and jazz singers of the time , for whom commercial success was rare and sexuality was n't such a taboo ; it was OK for them to wear come-hither clothes , drink hard liquor and sing about bad men . |