Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [not/n't] [adv] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would nod in reply , and I would creep away , sniggering at my tiny cruelty , pleased that I was not quite such a nice young man as he might have imagined . |
| 2 | But it was n't really such a leap from paintings of riders to pictures of top-hatted toffs playing around with tousled tarts . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't really such a sudden decision . |
| 4 | Sadly , it was n't always such a pleasant part of the principality . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't quite such a shock as you might think . |
| 6 | After travelling around the continent to a constellation of cities linked by who her father knew , it was a relief to cross the Channel alone and to arrive at a place where it was not generally such a struggle to make herself understood . |
| 7 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 8 | He was not quite such a dumbhead as one would think . |