Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since fuel is a major part of a coal station 's running costs , the fact that prices were not rising nearly as fast as had been expected would have a fundamental impact on the future cost of coal-fired electricity . |
| 2 | A spokesman for Destiny Technology said settlement talks fell through because they ‘ were not moving as rapidly as they could have . ’ |
| 3 | From a British perspective this seems little to ask for , though the Chinese might be justified in wondering why such democratic principles were not applied long ago . |
| 4 | A spokeswoman for C & G said : ‘ We were prosecuted for a technical infringement as the APRs on our posters were not printed boldly enough . |
| 5 | The four precursor divisions were not lumped together willy-nilly as a whole to form C&P . |
| 6 | She insisted that they were not seen often together at TVL and that she kept what she called her professional distance . |
| 7 | Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins . |
| 8 | Julie and Elizabeth 's relatives have been over to South Africa and were not treated very well at all by the police . |
| 9 | In their eyes the British were not adjusting sensitively enough to the emergence of potent radical Arab forces , and were therefore putting at risk Western interests and influence in this region . |
| 10 | In general , observers noted that the economic reforms were not proceeding as quickly as originally envisaged . |
| 11 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 12 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 13 | If the less successful variants were not multiplying quickly enough an element of competition would also mean that poor replicators will be less efficient at acquiring the means of survival to keep the new species going . |
| 14 | To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other . |
| 15 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 16 | Minor symptoms accompanying seroconversion , such as fever , tiredness , pain accompanying swallowing , headaches , and nightsweats , were not reported significantly more often by the drug users who seroconverted compared to controls for HIV . |
| 17 | The company commented that it had benchmarked machines like ICL 's DRS6000 and a Sequent server in December 1990 but they were not considered fast enough . |
| 18 | His other was on holiday , though he and his mother were not going away anywhere , in spite of what the doctor had advised , but staying at home and ‘ going out for days ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I was just pushing the ball , my passing shots were not going too well . |
| 20 | Though very tense throughout the whole week , I felt that things were not going too badly . |
| 21 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |
| 22 | The only problem is that they were not introduced soon enough . |
| 23 | Both formal and informal networks tended to divide into sub-networks and problems arose when these were not brought closely together . |
| 24 | The company has recently introduced a five-day option in response to criticism that they were not paying quickly enough . |
| 25 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 26 | Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises . |
| 27 | They 're not very flattering they did n't er , you were n't rated very highly I 'm afraid I think er you tried to get away from the traditional type of |
| 28 | The next one is er thinking about the conversations you did not record which of these was the main reason why they were n't recorded please just read out the numbers on the card . |
| 29 | so it was quite , and er then they , they , well they were n't learning very well at all |
| 30 | I understood the Mysteries were n't played here any more . |