Example sentences of "[coord] it was not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The financial constraints were initially rather phantom-like ( in the first year , for example , there was prolonged and somewhat inconclusive discussion with the Ministry about the budget and it was not finally authorised until the financial year was over ! ) , but the physical constraints were none the less effective in limiting the industry 's expenditure . |
| 2 | The study ( admittedly a small one with 33 observations of handwashing ) demonstrated that the technique was poor ; the time taken was brief ; and it was not even carried out after all ‘ dirty ’ interventions . |
| 3 | When Lewis moved his teaching from Oxford to Cambridge in 1954 , for the last nine years of his life , the drama of that confrontation was somewhat intensified , and it was not always noticed in the heat of debate how much they shared . |
| 4 | Gruesome flogging cartoons and fantasies of violent reprisal dominated the response , and when the magazine crashed down against the garotting packs and the sentimentalists ( and it was not always clear who was supposed to be the real villain ) both humour and artistic quality were sometimes surrendered as hostages to the gout . |
| 5 | Our first loss , as you correctly said , was at Palace , and it was not only lost in the last minute , it was in the 94th minute of a terrible game . |
| 6 | They added it , I should have known , to try and get a younger audience and it was n't well understood by the people who wrote it . |
| 7 | ‘ And it was n't even consummated , ’ he observed sardonically . |
| 8 | So those but Fantasia passes are very similar , I just turned mine turned mine round she saw it and went she showed me a blank yellow so I did n't thought it perhaps a different pass but it was n't just turned it round on her . |
| 9 | The second point was that yes you mentioned it but it was n't really arranged , . |
| 10 | Charlie was older , of course , but it was n't only age that had changed him . |
| 11 | The widow had wanted the house to be opened to the public — the trustees say they 're sorry the owner 's dying wish was denied , but it was n't legally binding . |
| 12 | Simon was at a Pavement gig , but it was n't necessarily featuring the band of that name . |
| 13 | But it was n't enough to save them either . |
| 14 | Marcus Browning was the hit man … that 's three goals in three games for him … but it was n't enough to save United from a 2-1 deafeat … |
| 15 | He said : ‘ After I lost my keys a few weeks ago a locksmith replaced the tumblers but it was n't enough to stop the door being opened . |
| 16 | MATTHEW Syed , the 22-year-old Oxford University student , won both his table tennis games for England against France at Brentwood but it was n't enough to prevent France from winning 3–2 . |
| 17 | The picture that emerged was unflattering ; but it was n't much use to an aspiring blackmailer . |
| 18 | Mist lay in shallow patches over the hollows and where the fields were lying fallow the hay was nearly ready to be cut , but it was not yet cut . |
| 19 | 1754 In 1750 a shilling sterling was levied for each quarter land for building a dyke about the Church yard of Killarow but it was not yet finished . |
| 20 | 1754 In 1750 a shilling sterling was levied for each quarter land for building a dyke about the Church yard of Killarow but it was not yet finished . |
| 21 | The AC-130 gunships blasted selected targets but it was not immediately clear what had been hit , the witnesses said . |
| 22 | Lawyer A gave him a lot of advice about what was reasonable , but it was not invariably accepted . |
| 23 | The elevation of their leaders ' wives to positions of political power in their own right happened more and more often by the 1970s , but it was not well regarded even in countries where the wife was not like Elena Ceauşescu in combining arrogance , brutality , stupidity and self-confidence . |
| 24 | The form contemplated that it would also be countersigned by an obstetrician , but it was not so signed . |
| 25 | ( This was done by those Jews who wished to make a Zionistic point , but it was not so shared by Leonard or his family . ) |
| 26 | Charlie Vane , Bob Taylor and John Page had a single win apiece , but it was not enough to stop Frimley who scored through Robert Brittain ( 3 ) , Dick Culver ( 2 ) and Peter Glass to take the cup 6–3 . |
| 27 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 28 | Stand-in keeper Trevor Matthewson immediately produced a penalty save from Jimmy Quinn , but it was not enough to save the Blues . |
| 29 | But it was not enough to save the company 's jobs . |
| 30 | GARY Lineker scored his first goal today since being sidelined from the Japan League for three months with a broken foot but it was not enough to save Nagoya Grampus Eight from defeat in the opening match of the Nabisco Cup . |