Example sentences of "was n't [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Realising that rowing was n't viable long-term , he soon became interested in karate and after a short time at the university club looked further afield for tutoring . |
| 2 | The estate agency had a very high fixed cost structure and it was n't viable . |
| 3 | In applying that how that they did n't implement land reform because it was n't viable but if erm another way of looking at it is that how the Communist Party no longer saw land reform as the best way , means of achieving greater |
| 4 | We now know the business was n't viable from the start . |
| 5 | I do n't know what I think in view of what you say , Mary , go into to great detail as to what went wrong with this , erm because I can cut that short because the fact is that Russell eventually admitted that this programme simply was n't viable . |
| 6 | Old Red was n't foul . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was n't uncommon for us to be putting out a 16-page issue at the end of the 1960s . |
| 8 | It was n't uncommon for adults to exceed four feet in length and yes , they were dangerous . |
| 9 | There was nothing unique in this ; it was n't uncommon in the lanes to find oneself stuck behind a slow-moving tractor with a twelve-year-old in the cab , using public highways to get from one piece of a farm to another . |
| 10 | But it was n't uncommon for clients to stand waiting all night . |
| 11 | Erm in fact telephones , I mean talking back to nineteen forties and fifties , very few people had telephones , and it was n't uncommon in , in those days on fire engines , where , I know at Salisbury we did this , we took a bike and put it on the back of a fire engine , and if you were the youngest you were told , send the stock message back , or the informative message back , and find the telephone , and you pedalled and find the telephone , and , and you 'd get told off when you came back , why you were n't quicker about taking it . |
| 12 | Whatever it was , she was n't amenable . |
| 13 | Er she was visibly er upset , she was n't hysterical , just er crying . |
| 14 | One Labour councillor was sympathetic and brought his local ward committee down to see the tenants " to check it was n't political " . |
| 15 | An appeal for political asylum would have been likely to get her nowhere ; Alina was n't political , and never really had been . |
| 16 | It was n't political . |
| 17 | Shildon said : ‘ The deal was n't favourable , I think that 's been recognized by a number of people for a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ He was n't cruel , really , ’ she said , as if defying an invisible accuser . |
| 19 | She was n't cruel enough to tell him that there had been times when she had almost wished he had . |
| 20 | But Steve would have hit her with the truth — not intentionally , he was n't cruel by nature , but simply with his down-to-earth approach to everything and everyone . |
| 21 | Here , there was a boy there who was n't 'alf a saucebox , he was always trying to get a look at me legs and drawers — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ E was n't 'alf lookin' at me . |
| 23 | Amitha : I was n't involved in setting up the Group , having then not accepted my lesbian identity , but from what I could see there was a lot of resentful and suspicious comparison between the BWG and the LGWG . |
| 24 | Michael was n't involved with anything like that . |
| 25 | Well it 's difficult for me to say because I was n't involved with the at that time . |
| 26 | And I was n't involved in the gossip in Bay . |
| 27 | Well not roughly I mean they I mean they did n't sort of finish them off w wherever they was s sent to in whatever the firm I I I do n't know the name of the firm , I was I was n't involved in did n't bother as long as the job was done . |
| 28 | ‘ I was n't involved in any such thing and I 'd like to make that absolutely clear . |
| 29 | It was n't real outrage , it was cod outrage , like scribbling obscenities on the wall . |
| 30 | There was a pony , but it was n't real . |