Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] not [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two recent studies exclusively involving patients with diarrhoea similarly reported the absence of potential pathogens in most patients with AIDS related complex while in most patients with AIDS a potential cause of diarrhoea was detected ; as the abnormalities detected in AIDS patients were obviously not necessary to produce diarrhoea at earlier stages of the disease , their causative relevance is doubtful . |
| 2 | They 'd had plenty of bait four nights ago , then another two helpings of bait on another two nights and , although they were moving around the swim as was evidenced by line bites and rolling , they were just not inclined to feed — whatever the conditions . |
| 3 | This is hardly surprising , for there were very few museums , and the high cost of oriental rugs ensured that they were only affordable by the very rich , who were understandably not inclined to open up their houses to public view . |
| 4 | There were nearly three million non-standard consumers ( nearly a third of the total ) on nationalisation , and this number increased as resources were simply not available to convert local networks when new houses required a supply . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the low prospective profitability could be due to the enterprise becoming trapped in a clearly sub-optimal line of production , i.e. one in which consumers were simply not willing to pay a price for the commodity sufficient to cover its costs of production ( including the opportunity cost of investment funds expressed in the rate of interest charged by the national investment bank ) . |
| 6 | Evening courses were arranged on all sorts of subjects , which we as shift workers were unfortunately not able to take advantage of fully , as we had to work during the evenings . |
| 7 | I got the impression that he was personally not keen to stand himself but could be persuaded . |
| 8 | Where the information was not available , I was obviously not able to do so . |
| 9 | Central government was thus not able to give clear guidance drawn from the Worcester case for hospital managing authorities in the rest of the country . |
| 10 | The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 . |
| 11 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
| 12 | But Rafiq was still not keen to put over the punch-line . |
| 13 | It was still not much to say after the Holocaust and so many long centuries of discrimination by Christians , and often by Church authorities , against the Jews . |
| 14 | Less than 36 hours after the discovery of the body , facts were coming in at a fair rate , though it was still not possible to decide which were relevant and which not . |
| 15 | Lagos State , controlled by the Unity party of Nigeria ( UPN ) , now has its own television station on the air , but in early 1981 it was still not possible to watch this new state television service in central Lagos . |
| 16 | Jinny was still not ready to stop sulking . |
| 17 | The majority was still not ready to abandon the belief that humankind was intended to dominate the earth . |
| 18 | But when they had been greeted with expressions of total derision and distaste , I realized that she was still not ready to come to terms with full womanly depth of her unacknowledged feelings . |
| 19 | He was clearly not content to sink into idle retirement but was soon full of schemes to open up Hannafore , then reachable only by a path that climbed steeply over a down that fell sharply to the Looe river in a precipitous cliff . |
| 20 | Under such unfavourable circumstances it was clearly not possible to pursue the Youth Allyah dream of creating a genuine community and to run it on democratic lines like a Kibbutz . |
| 21 | And Dr Frome was clearly not willing to smooth over the terrible event , to refrain from raking over the coals . |
| 22 | It was also not possible to correlate the motility of the exercise periods durng the recording as patients were not subjected to any strenuous form of exercise during the recordings . |
| 23 | Directors would normally maintain such lists of candidates in order of the date of receipt of the applications , but this apparent fairness had occasionally to be circumvented in case of urgent necessity by borrowing from another director with a less crowded list in the case of an older candidate , for it was often not feasible to advance a candidate over the heads of others in a list for fear of giving lasting offence . |
| 24 | National rivalries were all the more intense and confused in these districts precisely because it was often not possible to tell who was which nationality , or where a person 's loyalties lay . |
| 25 | His trouble was , he realized , that he was simply not able to grasp any religion , let alone a faith where his only spiritual mentor was a book from Wimbledon Public Library . |
| 26 | France was simply not willing to resume participation until these fundamental features of the Treaty of Rome were modified or dropped . |
| 27 | She could n't do much yet , and was certainly not fit to take a job — otherwise she would have made Breeze go to Edinburgh , and gone down to Penzance herself . |
| 28 | In parts of London during the last century , for example , it was certainly not safe to walk the streets at night , with violence and robbery commonplace , as the stories of Charles Dickens illustrate . |
| 29 | It was therefore not possible to predict , on the basis of patient characteristics , those who would develop cardiac arrhythmias . |
| 30 | It was therefore not hard to think up entertaining themes and commission a bunch of lively articles for this issue of theNI on the subject of the underground economy . |