Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was n't just to please her companions , but because she was beginning to have doubts about her original opinion . |
| 32 | Because i i they though it was in competition with other varieties around and it something t It was n't necessarily to do with the fact that erm they though it was less it held less prestige in the community . |
| 33 | Although Jeff making me laugh at myself was the beginning of the end of my depression , it was n't enough to persuade me to stay . |
| 34 | Unfortunately , it was n't enough to stop her thinking completely . |
| 35 | He said : ‘ After I lost my keys a few weeks ago a locksmith replaced the tumblers but it was n't enough to stop the door being opened . |
| 36 | ‘ It was n't enough to put us back in the World Cup contention . |
| 37 | But it was n't enough to save them either . |
| 38 | Marcus Browning was the hit man … that 's three goals in three games for him … but it was n't enough to save United from a 2-1 deafeat … |
| 39 | as if it was n't enough to see discredited Lo Life Boostin' Kev trying to make a record about the posse , Superia nearly went ballistic when he saw Harlem R&B/rap group Zhigge shouting ‘ Lo Life in tha house ! ’ on stage . |
| 40 | as if it was n't enough to neglect your husband and children , you get yourself involved in vulgar brawls . |
| 41 | It was n't enough to pay the rent , never mind to live on . |
| 42 | ‘ as if it was n't enough to start a major race riot , you kill a blasted policeman . ’ |
| 43 | MATTHEW Syed , the 22-year-old Oxford University student , won both his table tennis games for England against France at Brentwood but it was n't enough to prevent France from winning 3–2 . |
| 44 | The time I was looking for a house , he says it was n't enough to get into Sandy Row . |
| 45 | ‘ Whatever you and Peter were up to last night , ’ he went on savagely , ‘ it was n't enough to satisfy you . |
| 46 | It was n't only to toil in the cotton fields that negros were stolen from Africa . |
| 47 | When Bilqis , Queen of Sheba , travelled from her domain in southern Arabia to visit King Solomon , it was not just to pay a social call . |
| 48 | Stand-in keeper Trevor Matthewson immediately produced a penalty save from Jimmy Quinn , but it was not enough to save the Blues . |
| 49 | But it was not enough to save the company 's jobs . |
| 50 | GARY Lineker scored his first goal today since being sidelined from the Japan League for three months with a broken foot but it was not enough to save Nagoya Grampus Eight from defeat in the opening match of the Nabisco Cup . |
| 51 | It was not enough to patch up existing gaps in the criminal law , the commission said . |
| 52 | Charlie Vane , Bob Taylor and John Page had a single win apiece , but it was not enough to stop Frimley who scored through Robert Brittain ( 3 ) , Dick Culver ( 2 ) and Peter Glass to take the cup 6–3 . |
| 53 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 54 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 55 | Seb had always had an instinct for whether or not something was likely to make money , but now he was required to record farm profit and expenditure for Christian it was not enough to leave it all to Carrie . |
| 56 | He could not live sanely , wholly , without her ; it was not enough to go to the playhouse , watch her tempting presence above him on the stage , without the least hope of possessing it . |
| 57 | Soon it was not enough to demonstrate your success in life by the acquisition of material goods . |
| 58 | It was not enough to treat students like children , the clinical aspects of nurse education were almost non-existent on the course . |
| 59 | Nonetheless , whatever success was achieved within these programmes it was not enough to change the general picture of an agricultural system which could only expand production by having access to more land . |
| 60 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |