Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Acts provided not for full representation of the peerage of Scotland in the new House , but for the election by peers of Scotland ( who were not also peers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ) of 16 of their number to sit . |
| 2 | But these were not just facsimiles of Big Ted and Little Ted , no : this time Hamble was dressed head to toe in leather astride a miniature Harley Davidson . |
| 3 | They were responsible for the complete show , which was why stories of stars giving notes to other actors or ordering changes in sets and costumes were not just examples of megalomania , but the desire to maintain the overall standard of whatever production they put their names to . |
| 4 | I 've heard from people who have visited Brussels that meetings were being cancelled because the British Delegation were not even members of the trade union , but looking at the structure of the works councils in the U K this is no wonder . |
| 5 | ‘ Newsreels ’ copied the magazine style of the old cinema newsreels ; they were not yet bulletins of latest news . |
| 6 | Even the wealthy New York Jewish financiers , the Guggenheims , Kuhns , Sachs , Seligmanns and Lehmanns , who had all that money could buy in the United States , which was very nearly everything , were not yet Americans in the way in which the Wertheimsteins in Vienna considered themselves Austrian , the Bleichroeders in Berlin Prussians , even the international Rothschilds in London and Paris , English and French . |
| 7 | The imaginary conversations he held as he travelled the country roads were not simply distractions to while away his lonely journeys but rehearsals of the arguments he would use to outsmart the hunters and send them back home empty-handed . |
| 8 | The Twenty-fourther beliefs were not simply rumours from the dawn of time : they came , like the Dharjees themselves , out of real history . |
| 9 | They were not simply transcriptions of the power of the conquerors and the coercive force with which they attempted to annihilate the existing culture and beliefs of the Indians and impose Christianity . |
| 10 | These increases were not merely artefacts of an increased population available to commit serious crimes . |
| 11 | As the judge so rightly said , his were not merely crimes of theft but of violence against elderly people . |
| 12 | Through them I first learned ( as Leslie learned in the army ) that bathrooms and books were not then things to be taken for granted — that reading was not an instinct like breathing and eating , but a skill sometimes painfully acquired . |
| 13 | They were not only evidence of disagreement amongst abolitionists but perceived by contemporaries to have different religious and political characteristics . |
| 14 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 15 | Jacques 's flute method , compositions and instrument were not only characteristic of the early Baroque flute but elegantly expressed its aesthetic virtually to perfection . |
| 16 | The CSO 's new director , Bill McLennan , said the changes were not only part of general tidying up operation to standardise distribution but also to prevent leaks . |
| 17 | In the 1980s there were not only changes in product demand and in imports and exports , but large-scale changes in investment and in the occupational structure . |
| 18 | The middlemen who organized supplies of these crops for European traders were not only accumulators of capital but also invested in new opportunities , such as that created by the demand for cocoa in the 1890s . |
| 19 | North listened to this impassively ; when it was over his eyes filled with tears , but these were not necessarily tears of compunction . |
| 20 | An important point to note here is that these were not really arguments against correctionalism as such . |
| 21 | Car journeys were n't just occasions for surveying the scenery . |
| 22 | But she 'd already started to dissipate the beauty of her voice with various kinds of addiction — narcotics , alcohol and companions who were n't altogether kind to her — and the last ten years of her life ( she died in 1959 ) find the light , drifting delivery of the pre-war years shrivelling into the croak of a haggard ghost . |
| 23 | children , they were n't really sort of turfed out were they ? |
| 24 | Tealtaoich was not exactly padding into the forest and he was not precisely slinking into it either . |
| 25 | The trouble was that ( where it was not already part of tradition ) the introduction of piece-work was often resisted , especially by the skilled men , and that it was complex and obscure not only for the workers , but for employers who often had only the haziest idea of what production-norms to set . |
| 26 | There was not even evidence of men initially without such predilections enduring a process of seduction . |
| 27 | He was not even Bishop of the Cornish See at the time of his imprisonment . |
| 28 | Californian sunshine was not particularly kind to the English complexion , and circumstances had evidently not treated Laura well . |
| 29 | When the group began , Gedge was not particularly interest in lyric-writing , and like singing , he considered it a necessary evil . |
| 30 | Sutton 's focus on the Sun , and on headlines like ‘ GOTCHA ! ’ , was not just rivalry with its editor , Kelvin Mackenzie . |