Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canal tours , blue-and-white china , narrow streets — if it were not also a university town it would be merely beautiful . |
| 2 | At this meeting there is considerable scope for adjustment , but the process would clearly fail if there were not also an understanding of the need for a consensual solution to emerge , and within a very tight timescale . |
| 3 | Seldes marvellously captured the great down-town appeal of the movies when he spoke of the irresistible lure of ‘ the tinkle of a tinny piano playing a ragtime ’ which floated ‘ to the street from a darkened doorway ’ but the point about the movies was that they were not just a city or down-town phenomenon , they were everywhere . |
| 4 | Steve Knight , of Railnews , who proposed the motion , said consultants were not just a waste of money , but also a waste of time , a waste of resources and a drain on the whole of British industry . |
| 5 | Such activities were not just a waste of time which could be more usefully passed making profits for capitalists . |
| 6 | Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you . |
| 7 | It is well established that any Palestinian delegates must be acceptable to all parties : if this were not already the case , the Palestinian delegation would be made up of PLO members . |
| 8 | These developments were not simply a confrontation between Britain and Europe . |
| 9 | The tensions were bound to create difficulties , which came to the fore as national problems of economic management became clearer , even if they were not simply the consequence of those problems ( Rhodes , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation . |
| 11 | ( as if such undesirables were not precisely the sort of candidates all too often put up by parties and elected by voters in both British and Irish constituencies ! ) |
| 12 | If this were not so a plaintiff could , by seeking mandamus , evade the restrictive rule that an action in tort for an injunction to restrain breach of statutory duty will lie only if the duty is owed to the plaintiff individually because , as we have seen , the applicant for mandamus only needs to have a ‘ sufficient interest ’ in the performance of the duty . |
| 13 | If this were not so the risk of doing something new would not be justified . |
| 14 | They were not then a class which had consolidated its position through marriage and inheritance : the combination of their own practice and of national policy made it unlikely that they would ever be able to do so . |
| 15 | Now Naughtie told her : ‘ You were not only the belle of the ball , but the star of the show . |
| 16 | Almost immediately , the Ladies ' Association issued a strongly worded protest in The Daily News , signed by prominent figures like Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale , claiming that the acts were not only an attack on the civil liberties of all women but also implicated the state in sanctioning male vice . |
| 17 | The Ranger series of spacecraft for impacting the Moon were not entirely a success story ; but the soft landing Surveyors , which followed them , were . |
| 18 | Hard conditions were not necessarily a bar to enjoying hostel life as Martha Levy discovered : |
| 19 | ‘ They are now capable of taking two or three titles , though two years ago , they were not really a threat . ’ |
| 20 | ( Do remember , these chains were not really a penance , more a sharp rebuke to the pleasure-loving flesh and a curt reminder of vows taken . ) |
| 21 | Within the ‘ middle class ’ zones of owner-occupation of housing , politically active people tended to see politics as an arena for establishing the broad outlines of policy ; the ‘ details ’ of execution of policy could be left to suitably qualified experts and were not really the business of politics . |
| 22 | And they were not really the sort of children who were easily frightened . |
| 23 | Mrs Kelsall believed the mothers ' experiences were not usually the result of a lack of professional standards but of basic ignorance among midwives about how deaf people communicate . |
| 24 | Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set . |
| 25 | My early days at were not quite the era of the quill pen but at Ipswich and Rotherhithe , London SE16 , we had chest high desks with stools to match . |
| 26 | It was in the context not of an isolated individual saying it to another isolated individual , but actually feeling that this identity had a social location , a political and moral location , because it involved a whole series of things which meant you were n't just a voice crying in the wilderness . |
| 27 | I had to keep reminding myself that the plans we 'd had were n't just a dream and that he had loved me . |
| 28 | What 'appened there on the first of June last year were n't just a tragedy , oh no . |
| 29 | She 's been very happy with the children but I 've wondered once or twice if they were n't rather a strain on her . ’ |
| 30 | Were n't even a flicker out of it . |