Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 2 | The Catholics , having come so far in undermining the old Orange State , were not easily going to be satisfied , and the urban working-class Protestants were not about to relinquish fifty years of social and political superiority without a fight . |
| 3 | Even when we were not even looking like fouling them he was giving free kicks against us . |
| 4 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 5 | The old system had been removed , but the new ones were not yet working at full power . |
| 6 | Sadly , pregnant girls were not yet flocking to this club , even after a launch day at the civic centre , and radio advertising . |
| 7 | This would be sufficient to guarantee that the public were not indirectly paying for the corporation 's rehabilitation . |
| 8 | In short , in deciding whether or not a child was being abused ( and what course of practical action to take ) , social workers were not simply relying on clinical and other sources of more objective evidence , but were being asked to make value judgements about the kinds of situations in which child abuse is most likely to occur , and the ‘ types ’ of people most likely to engage in it . |
| 9 | Even if they were not now playing in Durham 's shadow , Yorkshire would be hard pressed to make out a good financial case for quitting Acklam Park . |
| 10 | Moreover , aspiring members of this new class were not only moving about the country ; they were also moving upward , abandoning grandparents who could not keep up , or did not wish to do so . |
| 11 | 2 clubs that were not only fighting for European places , but are good enough to win the league , but we obviously need a few slip ups at Old trafford . |
| 12 | It is a pity some of the professionals were not there learning alongside them : back on the South Bank a full-scale festival of Canadian music is running all week , but its profile has barely risen to the Plimsoll line . |
| 13 | There were no rebleeding episodes in the group which were not actively bleeding after the first treatment . |
| 14 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |
| 15 | One group received just the sentence , while another group heard ‘ disambiguating input ’ through a channel they were not explicitly attending to ( i.e. an additional sentence such as ‘ He extinguished the lantern ’ ) . |
| 16 | Between meals snacks were forbidden , and the dining room table was arranged so that Suzy 's parents were not directly looking at her . |
| 17 | In other words , they were not directly listening for the sound /t/ in the speech as it came in , but rather determining that a word contains a /t/ after actually identifying the word . |
| 18 | They might indeed come to believe that they were not really living in Africa at all . |
| 19 | The first hint that things were not really changing for the better came in 1945 when , according to Damiani , two Palestinian Jews paid a visit to his father . |
| 20 | ‘ One felt at times they were not fully taking in how serious our problem was , ’ he said . |
| 21 | When I first started , I was not exactly working toward a goal , but having fun collecting with Basil Taylor 's assistance . |
| 22 | Horowitz was not even looking at her : opening his executive case , he lifted the base , sorted through several documents , found what he was looking for and shut the case . |
| 23 | I was not even wanting to be alone . |
| 24 | And as scores of saffron-clad fans in the 6,000-strong crowd wended their way towards the exits , it seemed as if there was not even going to be a respectable attendance at the funeral ! |
| 25 | War weariness was increasing the unpopularity of the Whigs , and although the Tories were happy with Queen Anne , the prospect of the succession of the House of Hanover , foreign Lutherans who were known to be sympathetic to the Whigs , was not particularly appealing to them . |
| 26 | The woman was not just getting on her nerves now . |
| 27 | That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was not just looking for the most experienced people but there were other attributes I wanted to see , ’ he says . |
| 29 | Price Waterhouse , it seems , was not just investing in the Prudential by dropping the audit fee by 14% . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you want me to stay ? ’ she asked simply , and he knew she was not just talking about leaving the room . |