Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [not/n't] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually I thought they were quite nice , but Gillian er made I Ian erm ring the short up cos she thought the legs were n't long enough . |
| 2 | This time his 38-year-old legs were not quick enough to cut off the corners and trap his quarry for even the slightest roughing-up . |
| 3 | It bore no relation to the Charter , it was n't irreverent and anti-establishment , the pictures were n't strong enough , it did not have enough on ethnicity or women , it was n't exciting , different , political or inspirational . |
| 4 | The parties were not able completely to disregard these claims for a number of reasons . |
| 5 | Her eyes were not red now , but she looked very tired . |
| 6 | Although the paper stated that the measurements of the neutrons were not accurate enough to determine if the fusion was thermo -nuclear , there was a great desire that Britain 's prestige should be boosted by the ZETA ‘ triumph ’ following the nation 's ‘ backwardness in Sputnik research ’ ( the Soviet satellite having been launched in October 1957 ) . |
| 7 | It was held that the effect of the clause was to throw onto the employer the risk of damage caused by fire , so that the contractor was not liable even for a fire caused by the negligence of its employees ( and despite the presence of a clause under which the contractor undertook to indemnify the employer against losses in respect of damage to property caused by the negligence of the contractor 's employees , which was held to be qualified by the clause dealing with fire insurance ) . |
| 8 | However , the seasonal loss was not great enough to cause an ‘ ozone hole ’ of the sort above the Antarctic , where at times the layer has reached a wafer-thin 10 per cent of normal this winter . |
| 9 | The girl 's mother claimed Coney Hill was n't secure enough , and now believes the escape has proved her right . |
| 10 | If she denied fitzAlan 's story so she could have the solar to herself , she would become lost in a morass of other lies and explanations , and her mind was n't clear enough to cope with such a task . |
| 11 | The switch was n't early enough to prevent a number of white labels leaving Rough Trade with the original A-side . |
| 12 | The study was not concerned mainly with early retirement , and the information it did collect was directed primarily towards early retirement as a response to redundancy . |
| 13 | Tyrell ran the March team in 1970 but the car was not good enough for a driver of Stewart 's calibre so Tyrell decided to build and run one under his own name for Stewart . |
| 14 | Administrative attempts to counter cattle stealing were generally ineffective in the nineteenth century , but the crime was not common everywhere . |
| 15 | Tribe 's grip on an Australian football was not bad either . |
| 16 | Spring was not far away when the spiny mounds of blackthorn along the headlands of the fields turned from black to white , like drifts of snow . |
| 17 | The industry was n't mature enough . |
| 18 | As luck would have it , the light was n't good enough and the shots did n't come out . |
| 19 | One of the possible explanations for the differences could be that a small subclone was not present initially in the sample of the first tumour and eventually grew up to form the recurrence , but as there were so many genetic changes present in the recurrence which were not initially there and the Lambda MS8 did not show allele loss , a balance of probabilities seemed that the latter tumour was not a progression from the first . |
| 20 | The idea that an economic imperative justified the large-scale demolition of people 's homes was not unknown elsewhere in Eastern Europe ( or the West ) . |
| 21 | The Federation stimulated and promoted membership of the WEA — an important consideration in the county as the tenet of every student being also a member of the WEA was not realistic simply because in the initial phase most of Shearman 's activity was in rural ‘ centres ’ rather than in WEA ‘ branches ’ . |
| 22 | She had faults in her personality , her hair was n't blonde , she was a copper top , her figure was n't amazing either . |
| 23 | He felt that MacArthur was not interested now in a peace conference actually meeting but rather of putting forward the proposal in order for the Soviet Union to reject it . |
| 24 | Leith was n't certain then who was the more embarrassed , herself or Rosemary . |
| 25 | In other words , 18 months was not long enough for the ‘ marked ’ lead to work its way through the local food chain . |
| 26 | His penetration was n't deep enough for her to really grip him with her vaginal muscles , but he had seen how clitoral massage aroused her . |
| 27 | Four felt their parents were too strict , while many others ' parents were not strict enough . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | HWIM and Hearsay-II 's acoustic and language models were not good enough to map accurately the relationship between the input and linguistic descriptions of the utterance . |
| 30 | Every dancer has got a different job to do on the road — as if dancing were n't difficult enough — but you know what most people would say : ‘ It 's art , it 's dance , it 's Britain , you should be grateful to be doing it at all ’ . |