Example sentences of "was not [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not exactly run along the lines of a ship of the Royal Navy . |
| 2 | When I first started , I was not exactly working toward a goal , but having fun collecting with Basil Taylor 's assistance . |
| 3 | But M3 was not successfully targeted in the early Thatcher years . |
| 4 | The shift was not wholly imposed from the outside . |
| 5 | Balfour ( who was not wholly convinced by the plotters and who refused finally to do their bidding ) sent a message to Baldwin to say that the constitutional course was to meet Parliament . |
| 6 | It was not wholly superseded until the publication of Richard Westfall 's Never at Rest in 1980 ( a condensed , updated version of this biography is soon to be published by Cambridge University Press as The Life of Isaac Newton ) . |
| 7 | Within the Main Library , all consultations had to be recorded by signature of the declaration form at the front of each thesis , but this was not rigorously enforced in the departmental libraries , largely due to staff shortages which precluded adequate supervision . |
| 8 | Irony was not frequently encountered in the literature on the Iran-Iraq conflict . |
| 9 | And this process was not immediately halted by the accession to power of the Bolsheviks . |
| 10 | He was not immediately arrested at the airport but kept under close surveillance . |
| 11 | Since the scales were minimal by any standards , the refugee organisations were still in need of help , none more so than the RCM which , for some curious reason , was not immediately included In the government s grant scheme . |
| 12 | Gordon Strachan 's return after injury left no place for Rocastle who was not even named among the substitutes . |
| 13 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 14 | Built around a supremely non-standard hardware configuration , costly to acquire and complex to use , it was not even supported by a steady subsequent flow of new , compatible software so the investment in the hardware could be amortised across a range of classroom applications . |
| 15 | The eve-of-talks optimism of the Sacu president , Geoff Daikin , was not even dented by the state-run television , which quoted him as saying that Sacu would push for the tour at all costs . |
| 16 | Centaurus almost surrounds the Cross , and until the seventeenth century the Cross was not even classed as a separate constellation . |
| 17 | By an almost unbelievable contrast , the summit was not even mentioned on the main 8 pm television news in France ( Antenne 2 ) , although it did get a ten second slot as the tenth item on the midnight news bulletin . |
| 18 | Although the chapel was not even mentioned in the commission of 1535 , the foundation certainly continued : its third incumbent , Thomas Hattfield , was installed on 1st July 1541 after Silvester 's death . |
| 19 | In our sample firms , the ‘ occasional committee ’ Reynolds mentions was not even considered as the mode of culture management . |
| 20 | She was not even considered for the role . |
| 21 | A default judgment must , however , not be recognised if the defendant was not duly served with the document which instituted the proceedings or with an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence . |
| 22 | As a result our picture of the divisions , and of the resulting kingdoms , or Teilreiche , is not complete , and even the outline that we have was not properly understood until the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 23 | While the Roman law had perhaps never died out in the north Italian cities and was studied in the early eleventh century at Pavia , where the great lawyer , Lanfranc , archbishop of Canterbury under William the Conqueror , taught for a while , an interest in the texts of Justinian was not widely aroused until the discovery of a manuscript of the Digest in c. 1070 . |
| 24 | There is little doubt that the coalition was returned to power mainly on Unionist votes , although this was not widely recognized at the time ; the Unionists had never won so many votes before , and it was perhaps natural to attribute their success to their new asset . |
| 25 | The purpose of the law , which was not widely practised by the time of Jesus , was to preserve both a family line and the inheritance of family possessions and property . |
| 26 | The term ‘ mass media ’ itself was not widely used until the 1960s . |
| 27 | Cleo could not understand why Dauntless was not similarly enchanted by the place . |
| 28 | Yet if urban communities divided into well-defined upper and lower classes , the sharp edge of inequality was not infrequently blunted by a numerous £2 group , the diffusion of wealth amongst a solid bloc of merchants and master craftsmen worth upwards of £10 , and , in most small towns , the absence of very rich people . |
| 29 | But an industrial tribunal yesterday decided she was not unfairly dismissed from the complex near Teeside Airport . |
| 30 | Even though Hygeberht received the pallium from Pope Hadrian , his status as archbishop was not willingly recognized by the community at Canterbury ( CS 254 : S 128 ) . |