Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | workhouses were not all the dark satanic mills of legend . |
| 2 | But they were not all the same groups within the different daily and Sunday categories each year : for instance , Beaverbrook was a top daily but not a top Sunday group in 1947 . |
| 3 | But Fenella thought the sounds and the movements were not all the sidh . |
| 4 | It helped enormously that he also happened to enjoy affairs with women , and that when he was acting on stage , his sexual proclivities were not such a problem as he was less in the public eye . |
| 5 | Goodwill , training , time , skill and pupil support are all likely to be in shorter supply than would be the case if there were not such a plethora of assessment innovations taking place at the same time . |
| 6 | Clara could have forgiven the things their ugliness , if that very ugliness were not such a source of pride . |
| 7 | These acts , however , in presuming guilt rather than innocence , were not such a startling departure as the Hammonds thought . |
| 8 | I do n't think that would have been possible if our marriage were not such an ‘ equal terms ’ partnership' . |
| 9 | ‘ Chubby ’ Eliot and self had a bit of a dogfight for a while trying to get on each others ' tails as we were not certain the other was not a 109 until we saw the roundels . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps the newspapers were n't such a good idea . |
| 11 | And if he were n't such a lout ! |
| 12 | If only she were n't such a lovesick loon . |
| 13 | You 'd have to admire the elegance of it if it were n't such an outrage . |
| 14 | Obviously if it were n't cold the ice would melt . |
| 15 | One niggle was that the ends of the shoulder harness adjustment straps were unfinished — if you were n't careful the strap ran right through the buckle . |
| 16 | They were n't aware the were on that they could send them messages . |
| 17 | They were found under a bridge , listening to their scanner , but its batteries had run down and they were n't aware the police were so close . |
| 18 | He 's meant to be good that good he were n't fucking no good last night keeping up with us was he ? |
| 19 | She was not grief-stricken the way she had been when her father died , but sorrow was a weight which kept her from opening her eyes on a world where she would sorely miss his company . |
| 20 | Strauss 's annotations of Hofmannsthal 's libretto are discussed in detail , as is the harmonic structure of the opera which Gilliam identifies as tonal , thus supporting others ' views that Strauss 's next opera , Der Rosenkavalier , was not such a change of tack as it is often represented to be . |
| 21 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 22 | This was not such a bad thing at this stage . |
| 23 | Their minds were obviously not on meteorological work , and as the squadron gradually decreased in numbers with each little batch that left for home , farewell parties were a regular occurrence in the office and I began to think that perhaps Binbrook was not such a bad place after all . |
| 24 | Although introduced during the World Cup , it was not such a revolutionary advance as had been claimed . |
| 25 | It was not such a great step in reducing him to the laws-giver . |
| 26 | The 1895 workshop of Alfred Morgan , undertaker and funeral furnisher of 2 Craven Buildings , Wych Street , Strand was not such a far cry from the confusion witnessed fifty years earlier by Oliver Twist in Mr Sowerberry 's establishment . |
| 27 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 28 | In a way this was not such a radically different view from Mannheim 's because the sociology of knowledge was sociologism in the sense that it held that truth was only ‘ true ‘ for ’ certain groups of men ’ ( Grunwald 1970 : 238 ) . |
| 29 | The correct character may often have a lower confidence because it was not such a good match with the Freeman database . |
| 30 | Once the plunge had been taken to call upon outside expertise for a temporary and specific problem , employing outside expertise on a regular basis was not such a great mental jump . |