Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 2 | They also began to suggest strongly that leys were not just the traders ' tracks that Watkins proposed but were closely associated with such earth energy if not actually marking the channels along which such energy might flow . |
| 3 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |
| 4 | Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you . |
| 5 | Russians , the ‘ elder brother ’ of the Slavic as well as of the other Soviet peoples , were not just the most numerous but also the dominant national grouping in the USSR as a whole . |
| 6 | ‘ Well met , Michael Riven , ’ he said quietly , and the words were distorted in his mouth , as though it were not yet the right shape for them . |
| 7 | It is well established that any Palestinian delegates must be acceptable to all parties : if this were not already the case , the Palestinian delegation would be made up of PLO members . |
| 8 | Although climatic deterioration in the later Middle Ages certainly worsened the situation , these disasters were not simply the haphazard expression of hostile Nature . |
| 9 | The tensions were bound to create difficulties , which came to the fore as national problems of economic management became clearer , even if they were not simply the consequence of those problems ( Rhodes , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation . |
| 11 | The workers for whom employers competed were not merely the ones with the bargaining strength to make unions practicable , but also those most aware that ‘ the market ’ alone guaranteed them neither security nor what they thought they had a right to . |
| 12 | ( as if such undesirables were not precisely the sort of candidates all too often put up by parties and elected by voters in both British and Irish constituencies ! ) |
| 13 | If this were not so the risk of doing something new would not be justified . |
| 14 | Those helped were not only the elderly and unwell but could include people like young mothers with toddlers . |
| 15 | Included in episcopal temporalities were not only the advowsons which he possessed in his own right by virtue of the endowments of his bishopric but also those which it fell to him to exercise by default of the usual patron and the appointments to the cathedral chapter , two categories of patronage which he exercised by virtue of his spiritual authority over the diocese , not because of any land which he held . |
| 16 | Among those present on this occasion were not only the four bishops who had joined the queen in Suffolk after her landing but also Stratford of Winchester and Ayermine of Norwich . |
| 17 | Now Naughtie told her : ‘ You were not only the belle of the ball , but the star of the show . |
| 18 | Many of us have experienced the delight of finding tiny fish in our aquaria or ponds that were not there the ‘ night before ’ . |
| 19 | These were not necessarily the shy or reserved ones , who were quite likely to be snapped up by ‘ parents ’ who were looking for a quiet life . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , the workmen were not necessarily the hapless victims of exploitation . |
| 21 | What these scholars did was to place their own ( negative ) evaluations of [ h ] -loss on to the speech communities of earlier centuries in which evaluations of this phenomenon were not necessarily the same . |
| 22 | One problem with the above studies which used GSR to different words as a manipulation of arousal is that the words producing high arousal were not necessarily the ones which would have been predicted a priori . |
| 23 | And they were not really the sort of children who were easily frightened . |
| 24 | Within the ‘ middle class ’ zones of owner-occupation of housing , politically active people tended to see politics as an arena for establishing the broad outlines of policy ; the ‘ details ’ of execution of policy could be left to suitably qualified experts and were not really the business of politics . |
| 25 | Mrs Kelsall believed the mothers ' experiences were not usually the result of a lack of professional standards but of basic ignorance among midwives about how deaf people communicate . |
| 26 | Since it was generally associated with the corpuscular theory of matter it was a common idea in Locke 's time , though its details , and the arguments from which it was derived , were not always the same . |
| 27 | They also recognised the company 's unwavering dedication to finding and supporting independent groups , even if they were not always the most professional marketeers . |
| 28 | Russian concepts of suzerainty and subjection were not always the same as those of the peoples they were hoping to subdue . |
| 29 | " Out now , out , Miss Nicandra , " Twomey turned on her , not surprisingly , for they were not always the best of friends . |
| 30 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |