Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of the study 70 patients in the control group and 74 in the prompted group were not currently attending a hospital eye clinic . |
| 2 | If workers were spending their time in this way , they were not only exercising a leisure preference but were consuming a non-essential . |
| 3 | Girls were sometimes called apprentices , more often simply " learners " : indicating that they were not really acquiring a skill , just " learning on the job " , which was the standard training for most semi-skilled occupations . |
| 4 | Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference ; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness . |
| 5 | They were n't just humming a chorus of ‘ North Sea Sunrise ’ , the jazz tribute to the industry which the Norwegian contractor Kvaerner commissioned for its reception at Aberdeen 's Beach Ballroom . |
| 6 | He was not even wearing a watch and he needed a shave . |
| 7 | But God was not just providing a memory to cling to . |
| 8 | It was not just launching a perfume , it was giving birth to a perfume , ’ said she , who had definitely seen the shape of the bottle but still chose to stick with this metaphor . |
| 9 | He remembers asking Control why he was not also given a Thomas Leavy passport , and being told that , as there was enough time for him to go through normal channels to get one , a legitimate passport was always a safer bet . |
| 10 | The point of [ 14b ] was not simply to provide a paraphrase : it is in no sense a literal representation ( interpretation ) of the utterance in [ 14a ] . |
| 11 | Yeah , my objective was not actually to start a debate but to give you some indication of where we were going to go this afternoon . |
| 12 | But this was not enough to secure a break , particularly as an armistice with Turkey was fairly quickly obtained . |
| 13 | Barnes turned the game with his penalties , but possession alone was not enough to break a Springbok side which defends with a pride born of historical arrogance . |
| 14 | That it was not enough to have a health care system that treated the symptoms , it had to tackle the root cause of the problem . |
| 15 | As one senior figure put it , ‘ She was not really running a team . |
| 16 | She was n't even wearing a bra . |
| 17 | Vinny Samways pulled one back for Spurs in the sixty second minute , Paul Allen 's goal on eighty three minutes was n't enough to rescue a point . |
| 18 | Six o'clock this morning I was n't really asking a lot of questions . |
| 19 | Shaney was n't actually playing a game , but she was sitting next too a women that was . |
| 20 | 2 Novella was n't only drawing a veil over her beauty , but over her femaleness , synonymous — in the descendance of Eve — with seductiveness ; and , even more fatally , with folly . |