Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decisions on the administration of Korea had to be reached swiftly and the United States would be dependent on Soviet goodwill at first , since American forces were not immediately available to occupy south Korea . |
| 2 | The Goldsmiths were not immediately willing to undertake the duties expected of them . |
| 3 | A military man , Captain John Smith , pulled the colony together in 1608 but it became all too clear that the colonists were not even able to feed themselves ; 1609 was remembered as ‘ the starving time ’ and the settlers were preparing to give up and leave for England when Lord De La Warr arrived with fresh supplies and new settlers in June 1610 . |
| 4 | Britain today has a woman Prime Minister and yet just over 70 years ago women were not even able to vote . |
| 5 | At recent book fairs in London and Florence , publishers were not even able to make use of stands which were provided for free , since they simply had nothing to show . |
| 6 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 7 | In the mid-1930s , however , most absolute pacifists were not yet ready to accept the apolitical logic of their beliefs . |
| 8 | Lenin 's reply reiterated his argument that world and social development was ‘ uneven ’ , so that , even in the most economically advanced countries , the social differentiation between classes and awareness of this differentiation were not yet sufficient to take for granted the primacy of class , as opposed to national , identity . |
| 9 | The electrical giants of the age , Siemens and Edison , were not yet able to offer a viable alternative . |
| 10 | The people whom Mary came to rule in Scotland were not simply able to rest on their laurels of size , wealth and power , like the French whom she had ruled as queen consort ; nor were they introspective and xenophobic , like the English whom she wanted to rule . |
| 11 | We were not merely ready to welcome strange things when we had walked half a mile up a lane and met no man , but we were in a gracious condition for receiving whatever might fall to us . |
| 12 | Nationally the major figures in educational policy were not much inclined to innovate . |
| 13 | Some comments could be dealt with readily by changes to the draft statutory instruments but others were not so easy to resolve as they raise more fundamental questions and in these cases my officials were able to explore with the auditing practices board , whether issues could be more easily addressed in the statement of auditing standards which is being developed to accompany the legislation than in the statutory instruments themselves . |
| 14 | Dry and tinned stores were issued readily , but meat , vegetables and fruit were not so easy to procure , and often I went out into the surrounding villages to buy up food which normally would have come into the Maymyo bazaar . |
| 15 | Suddenly it was n't just fun any more , and his parents were not so content to encourage hi , He had a job as an engineer at British Aerospace , he had security , prospects . |
| 16 | Peasant enclosures , however , were not so likely to do this as those by greater men , whose lands were sufficiently extensive for them to support large flocks and who would therefore have found such a conversion of land usage economically worth while . |
| 17 | You see , if you had killed one you were not so likely to betray the others . |
| 18 | The safety factor was also important as older people were not so able to jump out of the way of stock or swinging gates . |
| 19 | Had the imprisonment and the subsequent ‘ religious revival ’ come six years earlier , it would have produced less spectacular growth because the trained personnel were not then available to lead the movement and direct the sympathy for the Free Presbyterians into recruitment to the Church . |
| 20 | The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin . |
| 21 | In creating artificial forms they were not only careful to ensure that their siting was appropriate but also that all the elements in the design , such as shape , proportion and size , respected Nature rather than acted against it . |
| 22 | It was extremely difficult for the USA to devalue since all currencies were expressed in terms of the dollar , and yet surplus countries were not very keen to revalue their currencies . |
| 23 | We were not very happy to find that Hillsborough had been chosen and even less so when we were allocated the Leppings Lane End . |
| 24 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 25 | There were no fundamental restructuring costs provided for in 1993 or 1992 , and profits and losses on sale of fixed assets ( 1993 £0.2 million profit , 1992 £0.6 million loss ) were not sufficiently material to warrant separate disclosure on the face of the profit and loss account . |
| 26 | But they were not sufficiently close to sustain Cockburn 's analysis , particularly in the field of urban policy and the management of local communities . |
| 27 | The aims of these were to curb indiscriminate outdoor relief ; if the poor were not sufficiently desperate to enter the workhouse they could not be really in need . |
| 28 | However , these arguments were not sufficiently persuasive to deter Lord Goff from recognising the underlying justice of the Woolwich 's case . |
| 29 | Teenage parents were not as able to take on the role of head of the family , and there was therefore an increased risk of abuse and neglect of the children . |
| 30 | Even within the bounds of their overwhelming devotion to Gothic they showed by the end of the century an openness to new styles which other denominations were not as quick to learn . |