Example sentences of "was not [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to be proved that the papers had put into the public domain information which was not already there and which , in the context of the present case , it was in the public interest should not be there . |
| 2 | The change of term was not quick enough and he covered it with a grandiose sweep of his hand which nearly knocked over the Doctor 's goblet . |
| 3 | We should not forget that it was not that long since Samuel Butler had published ( in 1878 ) his famous poem ‘ A Psalm Of Montreal ’ which was evoked by finding that Canadian ‘ philistinism ’ , had removed a Greek statue of Discobolus to a side-room in the Natural History Museum , presently used by a taxidermist , because of its ‘ vulgarity ’ . |
| 4 | But lame Lucca skipped and dived into dark recesses at Signor Fixit 's commands barked out in Italian that was not much better than Molly 's . |
| 5 | The body itself was not much more than five feet tall , the coffin measuring five foot 6 inches in length . |
| 6 | After all , it was not much more than five years since the Westminster Abbey wedding that thrilled the nation , if not the world . |
| 7 | It sounds complicated , but the whole sailing distance was not much more than two miles . |
| 8 | And that was not as often as she might have wished . |
| 9 | The model including a recessive major locus gave a better fit than the model including an additive or a dominant locus , but the fit was not significantly better than for the multifactorial model with or without a generational difference . |
| 10 | A placebo controlled study has , however , been carried out in active distal ulcerative colitis by Angus et al , and showed that the drug was not significantly better than placebo . |
| 11 | It was not very long before she was free of them altogether . |
| 12 | It was not very long before I came to see it as simply one fad among others . |
| 13 | Carrie sat around the bed with her mother and Fred chatting for a while , and it was not too long before they saw Joe Maitland coming down the ward . |
| 14 | It was already clear that Britain 's early post-war experience bore similarity to that of the United States , and it was not too long before it was evident that Britain 's experience was part of a wider set of tendencies to be seen not only in Europe but also in other world urban systems . |
| 15 | It was not too long before the Mountain Rescue team arrived , accompanied by police and a young lady doctor . |
| 16 | One of the most disturbing aspects of this experience , which I think merits emphasis , is that my c.v. , rated on the basis of the number of publications ( Medline Data Base ) , on the number of citations in the literature ( Science Citation Index ) , and the impact factor , was not only better than that of any of the winners but also of those of the commission members as well . |
| 17 | The blood of the wounded trickled from the bank , spilling like one of the showers that freshened the earth each day , and flowed downstream towards the sea , which was not so far that its rich scarlet could diffuse before it met the waves . |
| 18 | Although she still struck the bottom it was not so often or as hard . |
| 19 | ‘ Goat stinks , ’ said Camille , for it was not so long since she had been frequently taken by Connie to children 's zoos where these creatures — mostly nannies and kids — were considered suitably sized and disposed to mingle briefly with the children of men . |
| 20 | It was not so long since that the fashionable had discarded their wigs and taken to cultivating natural heads . |
| 21 | In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant . |