Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not exactly a refugee from the violence of invaders like many other Anglo-Saxon women , including one whose case we shall soon encounter : she was simply a woman of royal birth being educated in a monastery awaiting a suitable marriage . |
| 2 | The fact that everything relating to my loss was scribbled in children 's school jotters with cartoon covers was not exactly a boost to my confidence . |
| 3 | He also knew ‘ allowed ’ was not exactly the word but that it was more a question of not bothering . |
| 4 | The Reverend Archibald Menzies , minister to the stony and muddy village of Dull , was not exactly the pride of his parishioners — he had little chance of being that , since he had been chosen by the laird , not elected by the people . |
| 5 | It would take a predator the size of an eagle to do that , and this was not exactly the highlands of Scotland . |
| 6 | If in order to get to the root of it Eliot consulted a Viennese expert , the result was not evidently a cure , because I believe he suffered from it all his life : but the consultation , if that was what it was , may have benefited him by disclosure — ‘ the luxury of an intimate disclosure to a stranger ’ . |
| 7 | He was not wholly a man of nostalgia , and the road accident which cost him his son at the age of 21 all but destroyed his religious faith . |
| 8 | The ability to propagate cracks freely under a small stress was not wholly a disadvantage to primitive man who was thus able to shape flint and obsidian , which are more or less natural glasses , into various cutting tools . |
| 9 | Shildon reminded him that it was not wholly the fruit of his investigation for Eliot , he had a head start because he used to work for MacQuillan in Detroit . |
| 10 | The Labour government , then , was not wholly the prisoner of dogma . |
| 11 | Farrell uses the fact that O'Neill joined the Apprentice Boys of Derry and the Royal Black Preceptory ( two Protestant fraternal organizations similar to the Orange Order ) to portray him as a ‘ closet ’ die-hard unionist but in so doing misses the glaring point that O'Neill had to join these organizations because he was not already a member . |
| 12 | said that that there was no generally accepted international meaning of the phrase ; he recognised that in some jurisdictions , public law matters were regarded as outside the categories of civil and commercial , but that this was not universally the case ; he , but not the other members of the court , felt that there was insufficient evidence as to the approach of Norwegian law , but was prepared to give the request the benefit of the doubt . |
| 13 | The day after the Maastricht massacre , the French general commanding the arme e de l'air said , that he was sorry , but they were the wrong targets ; that was not where the Germans were . |
| 14 | Industry was not here the culprit . |
| 15 | There was not even a sense of anger , or regret . |
| 16 | Yet whenever she considered this possibility , properly thought it through , she knew that it was not even a starter . |
| 17 | And there was not even a pretence of mourning among the reporters and photographers who clogged Cookham churchyard and followed the cortège to Slough Crematorium and back . |
| 18 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 19 | The local police knew the legend of Mosse ; to the scientists he was not even a name . |
| 20 | There was not even a smell of bread baking — unusual in any village an hour before dawn . |
| 21 | In Romania , however , there was not even a ripple when Mr Gorbachev went to Bucharest to preside over a Warsaw Pact summit in July . |
| 22 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 23 | Charbury was not even a village . |
| 24 | We were like a convoy of ships , save that our horizon was a trembling yellow band , and there was not even a wake to indicate our movement . |
| 25 | I am sure that my right hon. Friend will wish the inquiry to investigate how numerous complaints came to be disregarded , how Mr. Frank Beck was able to simply resign , why the police were never informed of the complaints so that they could be fully investigated at the time , why Mr. Frank Beck , having resigned voluntarily after numerous complaints , was given a reference , why there was not even a report into the then Department of Health and Social Security , and why the inquiries by Brent therefore proved negative . |
| 26 | There was not even a television for me to watch Felipe . |
| 27 | In the fiercely contested Shannon-Garryowen tie there was not even a hint of unseemly conduct and the silence afforded the placekickers was , as usual on this ground , total . |
| 28 | His life was ordered , there was not even a hint of chaos in it now . |
| 29 | I had my own experience years ago with your cousin 's Uncle Merritt , and he was not even a relation of ours . |
| 30 | He answered his letters in long-hand , and when he retired there was not even a typewriter in the building . |