Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this meeting there is considerable scope for adjustment , but the process would clearly fail if there were not also an understanding of the need for a consensual solution to emerge , and within a very tight timescale . |
| 2 | Steve Knight , of Railnews , who proposed the motion , said consultants were not just a waste of money , but also a waste of time , a waste of resources and a drain on the whole of British industry . |
| 3 | Such activities were not just a waste of time which could be more usefully passed making profits for capitalists . |
| 4 | Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you . |
| 5 | These developments were not simply a confrontation between Britain and Europe . |
| 6 | The tensions were bound to create difficulties , which came to the fore as national problems of economic management became clearer , even if they were not simply the consequence of those problems ( Rhodes , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation . |
| 8 | ( as if such undesirables were not precisely the sort of candidates all too often put up by parties and elected by voters in both British and Irish constituencies ! ) |
| 9 | If this were not so the risk of doing something new would not be justified . |
| 10 | Now Naughtie told her : ‘ You were not only the belle of the ball , but the star of the show . |
| 11 | Almost immediately , the Ladies ' Association issued a strongly worded protest in The Daily News , signed by prominent figures like Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale , claiming that the acts were not only an attack on the civil liberties of all women but also implicated the state in sanctioning male vice . |
| 12 | Hard conditions were not necessarily a bar to enjoying hostel life as Martha Levy discovered : |
| 13 | Within the ‘ middle class ’ zones of owner-occupation of housing , politically active people tended to see politics as an arena for establishing the broad outlines of policy ; the ‘ details ’ of execution of policy could be left to suitably qualified experts and were not really the business of politics . |
| 14 | And they were not really the sort of children who were easily frightened . |
| 15 | Mrs Kelsall believed the mothers ' experiences were not usually the result of a lack of professional standards but of basic ignorance among midwives about how deaf people communicate . |
| 16 | My early days at were not quite the era of the quill pen but at Ipswich and Rotherhithe , London SE16 , we had chest high desks with stools to match . |
| 17 | She 's been very happy with the children but I 've wondered once or twice if they were n't rather a strain on her . ’ |
| 18 | " The packages were n't there the day before yesterday . |
| 19 | One trusts that its astronomers were n't quite the size of Patrick Moore or getting to work could have been problematic . |
| 20 | I tried to make her understand that kids were n't necessarily the key to happiness . |
| 21 | She was not exactly a refugee from the violence of invaders like many other Anglo-Saxon women , including one whose case we shall soon encounter : she was simply a woman of royal birth being educated in a monastery awaiting a suitable marriage . |
| 22 | The fact that everything relating to my loss was scribbled in children 's school jotters with cartoon covers was not exactly a boost to my confidence . |
| 23 | The Reverend Archibald Menzies , minister to the stony and muddy village of Dull , was not exactly the pride of his parishioners — he had little chance of being that , since he had been chosen by the laird , not elected by the people . |
| 24 | He was not wholly a man of nostalgia , and the road accident which cost him his son at the age of 21 all but destroyed his religious faith . |
| 25 | The ability to propagate cracks freely under a small stress was not wholly a disadvantage to primitive man who was thus able to shape flint and obsidian , which are more or less natural glasses , into various cutting tools . |
| 26 | The Labour government , then , was not wholly the prisoner of dogma . |
| 27 | There was not even a sense of anger , or regret . |
| 28 | And there was not even a pretence of mourning among the reporters and photographers who clogged Cookham churchyard and followed the cortège to Slough Crematorium and back . |
| 29 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 30 | There was not even a smell of bread baking — unusual in any village an hour before dawn . |