Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [not/n't] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hand captured her face and turned her towards him in the old domineering manner but his eyes were not at all hard . |
| 2 | But Mr Broadhurst 's instruction in the magical arts was not at all what I had expected . |
| 3 | And , unfortunately , sectarian attacks were not at all uncommon . |
| 4 | The next two years were not at all successful , and there were reasons for that which Jackie himself will admit . |
| 5 | The banks were not at all keen to lend to somebody who seemed actually to need money . |
| 6 | The Fat Controller forced upon me the conclusion that things were not at all as they seemed . |
| 7 | Policy documents expressed commitment to Community Care but the relationship between broad policy goals and the specific activities of service providing agencies was not at all clear . |
| 8 | High cereal prices were not at all " extraordinary " in the years of the French wars from 1793 to 1815 . |
| 9 | Americans were not at all used to being defeated . |
| 10 | Yet Owen , Roff and their contemporaries were not at this point working as real headhunters in the American sense of the word . |
| 11 | The results were not at all encouraging : four out of five hams on sale in delicatessens , a third in supermarkets and almost half of those in butcher shops were contaminated . |