Example sentences of "was not [adv] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not positively hostile to criticism , indeed , she produced a book called The Business of Criticism . |
| 2 | HBsAg positive individuals ( accounting for 3% of our cirrhotic population ) were excluded because at the outset of the trial hepatitus B virus immunisation was not widely available to theatre staff and it was not deemed acceptable to expose such staff to the risks of infection undergoing elective surgery . |
| 3 | The yeast of romanticism was fermenting and the Italian genius was not particularly sympathetic to romanticism . |
| 4 | I was not yet used to school life . |
| 5 | He was not simply indifferent to religion . |
| 6 | A production environment that sought to minimize expense was not especially stimulating to creativity , and some idea of the cynicism involved is evident from the instruction given to Adrian Brunel by the bosses at MGM that he could n't make any improvements in the film he had made for them lest his cuts shorten the film below the act 's definition of a full-length picture . |
| 7 | The variety of religious motivations was not always conducive to harmony among philanthropists . |