Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From reading this book I was not convinced that Wentwood actually aspires to more than that . |
| 2 | Even the king was not sorry that Priestley was ‘ the sufferer for the doctrines he and his party have instilled ’ . |
| 3 | He , while happy to be of some use , was not content that inequality on this scale should persist — inequality of opportunity , of course , for as a station-master he was a hierarchical man . |
| 4 | On the whole Morse was not unhappy that Ashenden had been ringing around . |
| 5 | She was not unaware that Lorimer had warmed to her during her disclosures . |
| 6 | She was not unaware that Therese disapproved of the use of her mother 's Christian name — the French had it all straight , about the family , about death , and how to talk about it ; and they did talk : familiar with death . |
| 7 | But , like a minority of Imperial subjects , he was not sure that fear was sufficient justification for the isolation of whole worlds from the rest of the universe . |
| 8 | He was not sure that Jehan had been talking about the arrows , and remembering that Jehan was Burun 's grandson he wondered how much he knew , or had been told , about the plan to obtain Sidacai 's freedom . |
| 9 | He was not sure that Miss Rossetti would have approved of Ash 's theology , or of his sexual psychology . |
| 10 | There was not much that Tina minded . |
| 11 | Beyond appealing for a peaceful settlement of European problems , there was not much that Roosevelt could do , as Hitler successively moved against Austria , Czechoslovakia and finally , Poland , precipitating the Second World War in September 1939 . |
| 12 | So it was not surprising that Col. Savill should have had an attentive and appreciative audience on 1 December 1989 , when he spoke on this subject . |
| 13 | Hence it was not surprising that Britain declined the invitation to join the proposed coal and steel structure , ostensibly because it was unwilling to accept beforehand the principle of a new and binding supranational authority . |
| 14 | It was not surprising that Benny had been as excited as a hen walking on hot coals all summer long , never able to keep still , always jumping up with some further excitement . |
| 15 | With little effective pollution control being undertaken in California , it was not surprising that air pollution worsened during the 1950s . |
| 16 | At such a time , when attitudes were changing but no effective consensus had emerged , it was not surprising that Truman should see in Churchill 's forthcoming speech at Fulton ( Missouri ) an opportunity to discover how far a sea-change was taking place in American opinion . |
| 17 | It was not surprising that students tried to find places in the ‘ good ’ work units which offered decent conditions along with a chance of self-development and advancement . |
| 18 | When these aspects of Nonconformity , its inherent political bias and its identification with Victorian values , led ministers into the political arena , it was not surprising that critics complained : ‘ The men whom the churches care to hear … are the men who speak most loudly upon the current political topics , and who … ‘ play to the gallery ’ and , echoing the gallery 's political watchwords , rouse the gallery to re-echo them in its turn . ’ |
| 19 | If the President could not afford to defy McCarthy , it was not surprising that Washington career men toed his line . |
| 20 | in view of the prominent part taken by the women 's movement and of the general position of women in society , it was not surprising that women felt particularly strongly on such issues . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a very acrimonious meeting , mostly about why we were changing lengths : the merchandisers were saying the customers want this and the designers were fighting their case and , as it was the first collection prepared without Laura present the whole time , it was not surprising that difficulties should surface , ’ Moira explained . |
| 22 | Under these circumstances it was not surprising that Masailand developed a tradition of preternaturally forceful District Officers — men as tough and independent as the Masai themselves . |
| 23 | It was not surprising that Tehran had seized upon the state of the oil market , in the light of the widespread indictment of Riyadh as having provoked the circumstances which left OPEC in disarray in 1985–86 . |
| 24 | So it was not surprising that George found that nobody would accept the dangerously exposed position of Prime Minister and that Pitt was indispensable even though he had no majority in the Commons . |
| 25 | In addition it was not surprising that Mr A was totally flummoxed when suddenly there is no voice and somebody begins to make faces instead . |
| 26 | Lady Wilcox said it was not surprising that children did not want to eat good food . |
| 27 | People were coming to accept that Nonconformist chapels should look like ‘ churches ’ and that Nonconformist services should be more ‘ dignified ’ and ‘ ecclesiastical ’ ; it was not surprising that people should come to view the nature of the Church itself in a different vein from their forefathers . |
| 28 | All in all , it was not surprising that Suger , mulling over the precedents of early crusading , tried to dissuade Louis VII from embarking on his Jerusalem journey in 1145 . |
| 29 | The trial judge found that it was not foreseeable that fuel oil on water would catch fire but there was some foreseeable damage in the fouling . |
| 30 | South Africa faced suspension , however , if Ramsamy 's committee was not satisfied that facilities were indeed being opened to all . |