Example sentences of "were not particularly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not particularly inspiring , though Michael van der Plas has shown that neither were they nugatory . |
| 2 | We stressed that their existing methods of weight control were not particularly effective . |
| 3 | The Winneba Ideological Institute and the party newspaper The Spark were viewed as instruments of international Communism , but were not particularly effective . |
| 4 | Some districts have traditional NHS inpatient units and outpatient clinics , but these fell out of favour when studies of outcome revealed that they were not particularly effective and were not reaching a sufficiently wide range of drinkers who might benefit from the service . |
| 5 | However they were always odd cars to the crews and the maintenance men , who had become accustomed to English Electric equipment , and were not particularly well-liked . |
| 6 | Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival " |
| 7 | The stately measure of the band , who were not particularly loud , was the steady , elegant funk they put into the music ; they did n't need flashness or speed to get across . |
| 8 | ‘ Those waters were not particularly dangerous — perhaps she was taking part in some way in the ‘ pacification ’ of the Highlands . |
| 9 | Many of the manifestations of this passionate interest in ceremonial and precedence were not particularly dangerous . |
| 10 | Once the research costs had been met , they were not particularly expensive . |
| 11 | Women could drum and handle pistols and the soldiers swords were not particularly long or heavy and would have presented no problems . |
| 12 | Then she had said that she and her father were not particularly close to one another . |
| 13 | It was only three days since they had spoken , and they were not particularly close friends . |
| 14 | Hence I take the view that the absence of any reference to the criterion of proportionality in the B. & Q. judgment is not of fundamental importance and that the reason for the omission lay in the specific circumstances of the case , from which it was clear that any obstacles which might be created were not particularly serious . |
| 15 | It is , of course , possible that general practitioners refer only difficult cases for a specialist opinion , but most of these patients were not particularly complex from the diagnostic point of view . |
| 16 | His hands were not particularly robust , but he missed very few matches until June 1952 , when appendicitis ruled him out for the rest of the summer . |
| 17 | Until men had learned how to cut diamonds , they were not particularly attractive crystals . |
| 18 | It was unlikely to be conceded by Bidault and the MRP ; Thorez and the Communists were not particularly interested ; and the only Socialist member of the French team at Fontainebleau resigned after two hours . |
| 19 | The outfits were not particularly tight-fitting , yet they revealed much of their splendid physical development and amazing muscle definition . |
| 20 | Marxism was appropriate for those who , like Vallejo and Neruda , were intellectuals who were not particularly comfortable with their consequently privileged status . |
| 21 | The checks that were carried out were not particularly rigorous and did not in fact tend to reveal abuse . |
| 22 | Allowing the public into their homes for a peep at family life , which left us feeling they were not particularly special , was a dangerous gamble that backfired . |
| 23 | There is some evidence that outside the upper working class , in the poorest families , attitudes were not particularly authoritarian or rigid in roles , and children were often left to pick up sexual attitudes for themselves . |
| 24 | The children , I thought , were not particularly bright and they found any sort of work very difficult . |
| 25 | His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division . |
| 26 | Probably they were not particularly expert until big industrialists , now recognizing the need for much more elaborate financing than in the simple old days , colonised the big banks themselves , as they increasingly did in Germany after 1870 . |
| 27 | True , they were not particularly large , but they were keeping their shape well . |
| 28 | The favourite still seemed to be going well enough , however , and the adoring masses were not particularly worried as the leading group — Ten of Spades and Desert Orchid , with Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin close behind — thundered down towards the third last fence . |
| 29 | Mr Hurd told MPs that Mr Li 's comments were not particularly dramatic , but ‘ it does represent the continuation of a stalemate ’ . |