Example sentences of "[was/were] not a [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 THOMPSON : ‘ All I 've just said is that it was not a good enough explanation of what I got and I do n't think anybody has been told , not only to the media out there , myself who is the most important one .
2 The discussion that Richard and I had , my recommendation was that it was not a big enough thing to cover a separate procedure for .
3 There was n't a wide enough field of vision to make much out , beyond the slime-laden walls of the pit , but , just for an instant , the Doctor could have sworn that something moved in the reflexive way of an uncomfortable sleeper .
4 So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance .
5 It was n't a big enough room there .
6 He began it , but then he stopped because he decided that it was n't an interesting enough story .
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