Example sentences of "was [not/n't] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even if it was not it allowed both sides an extra nine months in which to strengthen their positions . |
| 2 | Angry — because was n't it accepted that an individual could only be influenced if she was a willing party ? |
| 3 | That was n't it passed her on we went . |
| 4 | Was n't it damaging for men like them , who ‘ often find it painful and difficult to mingle with people , to speak with them ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Was n't it snowing that morning ? ’ |
| 6 | Why was n't it printing ? |
| 7 | Well I 'll tell you tell you who suggested that yesterday now let me have a look it was one of the councillors was n't it said lob it in the bottom of the arboretum lake it was er Conservative Councillor Charles Clarke who said the only suitable place for that daft leaf is in the middle of the arboretum lake . |
| 8 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 9 | I said knew about it , erm , you must have known about it , erm , that standard edition of the complete psychological works of Freud , that 's its title , and you 're one of the editors , one of the editors , I said , there 's no evidence that you ever intended to include this book in it , even though , you know , I understand that it could n't be published as long as Woodrow Wilson 's family was still alive , but erm , you know , why was n't it published in the standard edition ? |
| 10 | Was n't it called the Land of Israel ? |
| 11 | ‘ Was n't it ages till the All Clear ? ’ |
| 12 | Was n't it did n't you ring them up and they said we have exams on or something ? |