Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentials that were not available locally and the growing desire for non-essentials must have been satisfied by surplus produce . |
| 2 | Details of the cuts were not available yesterday . |
| 3 | A folio edition was an expensive item , but even cheaper quarto editions of most writers were not available readily . |
| 4 | The ballot results had been unsatisfactory and results were not decisive enough as too few people responded . |
| 5 | It showed that family support and child protection were not two necessarily conflicting and incompatible priorities : both required similar attitudes , approaches , and skills . |
| 6 | Even ‘ library research ’ usually encompasses some element of newness — the researcher concerned making intellectual links which were not apparent before . |
| 7 | The consultancy prospered , but some chemical processes which he developed were not successful commercially . |
| 8 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 9 | Amusingly , the car is so big that when the team was doing the full-size tape and paint drawings , the normal rolls were not long enough . |
| 10 | After its inaugural run to Fleetwood on April 9th 1958 , the prototype twin-car operated Coastal Tours , since loading platforms on the tramroad were not long enough to accommodate it . |
| 11 | In April last year managing director Hugh Collinson revealed that , during his holidays in the Virgin Isles , he had been miffed to find that the runways at the local airport were not long enough to take Airtours ' jets . |
| 12 | Bristol and Bath were not far away , and this particular corner of England , which was enormously rich in the eighteenth century , was sometimes ahead of London in its architectural fashions . |
| 13 | A better woodsman than he would have known from the absence of game in the ride that the verderers were not far ahead , but the Friar did not read the signs . |
| 14 | Our friends were not far ahead of us and we followed . |
| 15 | In contrast , a state investment bank under the guidance of a planning apparatus could make funds available for socially useful investment projects , and where these projects were demonstrably in the interests of working people , yet were not profitable enough to attract capitalist enterprises , the state could either adjust the parameters of the market to make them profitable ( not always easy , but the state does have considerable means at its disposal to effect such adjustments ) or failing that , nationalise the enterprises concerned , on relatively strong ideological ground . |
| 16 | If symptoms and cognitive function were not dissociable then clozapine , noted for improving symptoms , should also lead to improvements in cognitive function . |
| 17 | as if all these factors , and their relationships , were not complex enough , there is another influence on the profit share which must be mentioned . |
| 18 | More might have tuned in to hear him but their radio sets were not powerful enough to pick up the German stations broadcasting in English . |
| 19 | It was the marginal cultivators that took land on rabassa morta , who found tithes and feudal dues an intolerable burden , and they were not powerful enough to challenge either the large farmers or the aristocrats from whom they held their lands . |
| 20 | At the time that Salam and Weinberg proposed their theory , few people believed them , and particle accelerators were not powerful enough to reach the energies of 100 GeV required to produce real W , w , or Q particles . |
| 21 | In Johansson 's model , this option produced lower emissions , but they were not low enough . |
| 22 | Furthermore , some of the changes happening in those schools visited were not due purely to the introduction of financial devolution , being in some cases the result of a change of personnel at senior level . |
| 23 | How many of the ills of the modern world were not due precisely to Frankenstein 's folly ! |
| 24 | Even in the fifties my mother was still so relieved they were not poor anymore that she found spending money reassuring . |
| 25 | Look what Jesus says here in Luke chapter thirteen , in verse twenty four , just let me pick a few phrases out , verse twenty four it says shall not be able in verse twenty five there was their cry Lord open to us and in verse twenty seven their response depart from me the result in verse twenty eight there was gon na be weeping it was n't gon na be universal , they were not all gon na be saved , they were not all just gon na be swept in in the last day and did n't really matter , you 're all buddies together now in heaven , not at all , this surely what Jesus says here makes it very clear that all will not be saved if at first we 've already mentioned in John er no sorry verse further on in John three this done verse thirty six he who believes in the son has eternal life , but he who does not obey the son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides upon him , there 's no suggestion there of being ultimately brought in to God 's heaven and ultimately being saved , no it is the wrath of God abideth upon that person . |
| 26 | In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika . |
| 27 | They were not all quite dead . |
| 28 | Patients at St. Peter 's and other hospitals in Bedfordshire were not all fully maintained from public funds . |
| 29 | I fed him well whenever I was lucky at the fishmongers , though the other staff were not all as fond of sea food as we were . |
| 30 | Such fears , however , proved to be unfounded and the economic indicators for the end of the year were not all as bad as anticipated . |