Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] not [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was not yet an established concept of intellectual property and to the count there seemed no harm in the deception ; it was simply an innocent amusement . |
| 2 | In December that year , there was one occasion when within the circle there was not even the normal background level which could be detected outside . |
| 3 | This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with . |
| 4 | Although Bukharin was primarily concerned with a war situation , in which there was not only a direct diversion of a large part of the GNP to the production of means of destruction , but also a direct destruction of the forces of production , his formulation can also be applied to ‘ peace time ’ capitalism . |
| 5 | With experienced viewers there was not only a high degree of involvement in watching the work ‘ … melt down and become an object with a life of its own ’ ( Hyman , 1968 ) but also a strength and honesty of feeling that outweighed any more general sense of like or dislike . |
| 6 | The references to Morgan v. Palmer and the other two cases and to the compulsion on the importer to adopt one of two courses suggest that O'Connor J. was referring to a situation where there was not only an unlawful demand but a means of enforcing it without recourse to litigation . |
| 7 | LORD HANWORTH M.R. [ after stating the facts and accepting the principle that a creditor is not bound by an agreement to accept a smaller sum in satisfaction of a larger ascertained amount , unless there be a benefit or even any legal possibility of benefit to the creditor thrown in ] : We have , therefore , to consider whether the agreement that was made here on July 6 was an agreement to do anything else than simply to pay on Friday , July 8 , into the hand of the creditors the sum which was already ascertained and in respect of which there was not only the legal liability , but a duty enforceable by any mode of execution against the debtor . |
| 8 | There was n't even a careless whisper from George . |
| 9 | There was n't even a secondary school . ) |
| 10 | Before I joined the party 46 years ago , there was n't even a paved road from Lublin to Warsaw . ’ |
| 11 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 12 | It may well be he felt that there was n't necessarily the full authority of the city council and administration sub committee . |
| 13 | Before the eighteenth century , there was n't perhaps a National Anthem , there was n't such much of a er , national feeling , and so there was very little need to have a National Anthem . |
| 14 | There was n't actually a great sense of option or choice . |
| 15 | there was n't really There was n't really a great deal of er sort of stuff here but it was more about sort of language and shifts so I had to like shift through it and find the bits |