Example sentences of "were not [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This boast suggests that the vase-painters were not just copying the innovations of great artists but felt themselves in the van of the movement , true pioneers . |
| 2 | ‘ While partnerships are part of our industry 's culture , we were not even scratching the surface of the benefits that could come from taking traditional relationships many steps further , ’ he said . |
| 3 | So those gentlemen were not only infringing the Sale of Goods Act they were committing a criminal offence as well by infringing the Trade Descriptions Act so they ended up being prosecuted by Trading Standards . |
| 4 | as if it were not enough to battle the elements and their colleagues ( the crew includes a freaked-out Naval officer with a nuclear warhead and an itchy finger ) , Harris and Mastroantonio are a husband and wife with marital troubles . |
| 5 | as if the casualties being inflicted on members of the armed forces of both parties , not to speak of the crews of the largely neutral shipping involved , were not enough to satisfy the appetite of some mythical god of war , further carnage was developing , mainly in the latter half of the war , among the civilian populations of both countries . |
| 6 | A few further discs did eventually appear , the Ecodisc and the Volcanos disc among them , but they were not enough to revitalise the fortunes of the Domesday initiative . |
| 7 | A favourable monsoon season and a record harvest in 1988-89 of 172,000,000 tonnes of food grain were not enough to prevent the need to continue to import rice and wheat in order to maintain distribution and to provide food for the country 's growing population ; however , the improvement in the agricultural sector did contribute to a major increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) , of 9 per cent in real terms in 1988-89 , helped by increases in industrial and manufacturing production . |
| 8 | During the market decline in August and September 1987 many brokers were n't even answering the phones . |
| 9 | trees were n't there to make The Stow . |
| 10 | If they were n't actually paying the players — Cavaliers , South Pacific Barbarians , Centenary Tour — they were always threatening to break away and instigate a professional circuit if they were n't given games . |