Example sentences of "was not [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Separately yesterday , the Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was not referring the proposed acquisition by EFM Dragon Trust of Drayton Asia Trust . |
| 2 | She noticed , with a feeling of disappointment , that he was not wearing the obligatory photo-pass without which no true Tory could enter the Party conference . |
| 3 | They immediately seized on it as evidence that Mr Major was not telling the whole truth about Europe . |
| 4 | The county council 's highways subcommittee heard that the Middlesbrough by-pass , and its final stage , the A172 link from the A66 to Longlands , was not achieving the desired effect of diverting motorists from North Ormesby . |
| 5 | He was naked , and obviously he was not called the biggest chopper in the Brigade for nothing . |
| 6 | The Foreign Office request puzzled him , for it was not to see the Foreign Secretary with whom he normally dealt , but the Home Secretary , Sir Harry Marriott . |
| 7 | But although the GTP produced a massive land boom , it was not given the vast land grants of its predecessor , the CPR . |
| 8 | Kidd reflects that at the time he was not given the unqualified support by other members of P-E who felt that the search approach was still inappropriate for a consulting firm with resident consultants on client premises and that it could injure the firm 's consulting practice . |
| 9 | The European problem was not to oppose the American proposal adamantly , but to find some compromise that would both satisfy the United States and assuage European fears of a revitalised German militarism . |
| 10 | The French refused to take part in the project because Dassault was not to receive the largest proportion of the contracts and , in June 1992 , Germany decided that , since the threat from the Warsaw pact was gone and she was unlikely to participate in out-of-area conflicts , she had no more use for the aircraft . |
| 11 | He paused to let the effect sink in and to allow the participants to notice that the machine was not showing the correct time . |
| 12 | When neighbours who entertained him in Knightsbridge spent a rare weekend at Hatherley they were surprised at the switch from newspaper owner to farmer , a switch so thorough that the paper was not mentioned the whole time they were there . |
| 13 | As our eyes met in the glass , I realized that she was not admiring the flaking stone blocks opposite but using the window as a mirror . |
| 14 | According to this neo-populist view , which was outlined before the revolution and developed in the 1920s but has been vigorously reasserted in the last two decades , the spread of the market was not having the expected impact on peasant society . |
| 15 | I wrote to Mr Baker to propose that he should tactfully suggest to Mr Dahl that , as he was not attending the Working Group 's meeting , he should resign . |
| 16 | It was not spelt the same way for a start . |
| 17 | She hoped with all her heart that he was not going the same way as his stepfather ; and yet , the signs were already there . |
| 18 | She wrote novels about the frontier , about poverty , difficulty , and the American virgin land , but she was not celebrating the American Dream , nor making any Marxist investigation into culture . |
| 19 | But Lord Cottenham 's bill , to which this leading article referred , was not to have the easy passage through the legislative machine the writer looked forward to . |
| 20 | He kept his face turned away from her so that she would n't see that he was n't telling the whole truth . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not interested , ’ she said , knowing she was n't telling the whole truth . |
| 22 | The man was n't watching the light room he saw smoke coming up under the so he went away down and there was a fire in a in the er in the library . |
| 23 | He hoped George was n't thinking the same thought . |
| 24 | He was n't expecting the jarring shock that shot through his other arm but the shortness of the flex prevented him from pulling it more than a few inches off the table . |
| 25 | Today , however , she was n't taking the familiar route up to the endocrine ward , with the familiar reluctant realisation that Deana Davenport would probably be on her shift . |
| 26 | He feels that as he loved her so much during this time , he ca n't believe she was n't feeling the same way . |
| 27 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 28 | No , but no , but obviously no , th the association was only with cricket not with the product , so it was n't enhancing the initial product |
| 29 | But when you loved it , did n't you I mean I know I did when I was a young person first drinking erm I definitely had the feeling that if I was drinking to excess I was n't doing the right thing , whereas the impression we give in Oxford that drinking to the excess is perfectly acceptable behaviour . |
| 30 | The magistrates in the case say the girl was n't locked up because she was n't driving the stolen car . |