Example sentences of "was not [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not many minutes before Theda 's lamentations were interrupted by the eruption into her bedchamber of Hector , barking and whining , closely followed by Agnes Diggory . |
| 2 | On the right , his father was not many yards behind him in that charge . |
| 3 | But it was not all gloom on the side of the Allies : the general trend on the other side was one of gloom and doom . |
| 4 | But it was not all joy for England skipper Garry Schofield who suffered a recurrence of a hamstring injury . |
| 5 | He was not that kind of priest . |
| 6 | I knew this had been a place of elegance , had been sanctified in literature , but it was not that kind of place to me . |
| 7 | Was not that change in turn due to a realisation by the Soviet Government that the Governments of western countries , particularly the British Government , were not going to adopt a policy of one-sided nuclear disarmament , despite the urgings of Opposition Members ? |
| 8 | It was not that collision with anything of that kind of size was capable of damaging the field : indeed it had been established that it would require the power of several suns to put even a dent in the electric blue haze which now surrounded and protected the vessel and its contents . |
| 9 | There was not much choice about universities either . |
| 10 | In Macedon the ethnos or tribe was what mattered ; there was not much urbanization before the Peloponnesian War . |
| 11 | Actual violence as opposed to threat and intimidation was not much present in the English food riot . |
| 12 | When she got pregnant her social worker booked her into here , as there was not much space at her home and Barbara agreed that it was n't right that her mother should have her back with a baby as well . |
| 13 | He kept up a routine of a sort , but as , from a mixture of laziness and disapproval of political scribblers like Lloyd George and Churchill , he never wrote anything , and increasingly preferred sniffing old books to reading new ones , there was not much purpose to his life . |
| 14 | For example , there was not much sympathy for Erwin when his employer observed that he was ‘ clever but lazy ’ . |
| 15 | There was not much evidence of regret among the writers who then decided to rewrite democratic theory in order to incorporate the central elitist proposition . |
| 16 | M. Chaillot 's response included the information that there was not much money for new work in his budget . |
| 17 | There was not much hope of sending a note with a southbound traveller . |
| 18 | Nails was always roaming about on his own but on a night like this there was not much attraction in it . |
| 19 | One woman ‘ decided to have a baby so I would n't be lonely in the house on my own and there was not much chance of me getting a job ’ . |
| 20 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 21 | Although there was not much probability in my case , the answer is that I wish I had . |
| 22 | In situations 1 – 3 there was not much difference between the Patois scores , but it was significantly lower than in the other two situations . |
| 23 | There was not much sale for that kind of thing at the time of Hilbert 's marriage . |
| 24 | There was not much time for that after the summer of 1946 , for in September I travelled north along the Welsh borders to join the RAF . |
| 25 | But there was not much time for rows because he was conducting the Halpern case which eventually sent three youths to prison for the torture and murder of a crippled old woman . |
| 26 | Apart from this there was not much trade between colonies . |
| 27 | There was not much point in working harder or taking risks if the taxman picked up the main benefit of one 's success . |
| 28 | was doing all right , but Norway spruce was doing very badly , because during the war during the Wintertime do you see , there was only the Menai Straits , there and there was not much salt in the air . |
| 29 | There was not much room for all the Iranian courtiers who flew into see him . |
| 30 | There was not much rain in the summer and the ground was dry and dusty . |