Example sentences of "[ex0] was [not/n't] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was not yet a drug invented , or ever likely to be , that could cope with all the different and complex actions and judgements that make up a round of tournament golf . |
| 2 | There was not yet an established concept of intellectual property and to the count there seemed no harm in the deception ; it was simply an innocent amusement . |
| 3 | There was not strictly a demand colore officii in the sense defined by Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 140 . |
| 4 | In Romania , however , there was not even a ripple when Mr Gorbachev went to Bucharest to preside over a Warsaw Pact summit in July . |
| 5 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 6 | We were like a convoy of ships , save that our horizon was a trembling yellow band , and there was not even a wake to indicate our movement . |
| 7 | In the fiercely contested Shannon-Garryowen tie there was not even a hint of unseemly conduct and the silence afforded the placekickers was , as usual on this ground , total . |
| 8 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 9 | There was not even a sense of anger , or regret . |
| 10 | He answered his letters in long-hand , and when he retired there was not even a typewriter in the building . |
| 11 | His life was ordered , there was not even a hint of chaos in it now . |
| 12 | And there was not even a pretence of mourning among the reporters and photographers who clogged Cookham churchyard and followed the cortège to Slough Crematorium and back . |
| 13 | There was not even a television for me to watch Felipe . |
| 14 | I am sure that my right hon. Friend will wish the inquiry to investigate how numerous complaints came to be disregarded , how Mr. Frank Beck was able to simply resign , why the police were never informed of the complaints so that they could be fully investigated at the time , why Mr. Frank Beck , having resigned voluntarily after numerous complaints , was given a reference , why there was not even a report into the then Department of Health and Social Security , and why the inquiries by Brent therefore proved negative . |
| 15 | There was not even a smell of bread baking — unusual in any village an hour before dawn . |
| 16 | There was no site at which phoneme identification was impaired where there was not also a disruption of oral-facial movement , although at one site ( in one patient ) movement was disrupted without any impairment of phoneme identification ( Ojemann and Mateer , 1979b ) . |
| 17 | There was not merely an attempt to appropriate , but an appropriation . |
| 18 | There were , however , important differences : there was always a king , or claimant king , of Macedon ; but there was not always a tagos of Thessaly ( their word for ruler over the four great districts or tetrarchies of Thessaly . ) . |
| 19 | This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with . |
| 20 | Although Bukharin was primarily concerned with a war situation , in which there was not only a direct diversion of a large part of the GNP to the production of means of destruction , but also a direct destruction of the forces of production , his formulation can also be applied to ‘ peace time ’ capitalism . |
| 21 | there was not only a preference for apparently conformist middle class couples , but also the dislike of deviators from this norm , such as is represented by marital breakdown or career oriented women . |
| 22 | In the first place , there was not only a sex difference but a gap of glaring dimensions politically , socially and even of age , between those who promoted the introduction of women to printing and those who opposed it . |
| 23 | With experienced viewers there was not only a high degree of involvement in watching the work ‘ … melt down and become an object with a life of its own ’ ( Hyman , 1968 ) but also a strength and honesty of feeling that outweighed any more general sense of like or dislike . |
| 24 | The main area for the manufacture of fine broadcloths was the southern Cotswolds , notably in the Stroud valley , where there was not only a supply of high-quality local wool — Cotswold wool was generally regarded as the best in England — but also quantities of fuller 's earth and available water power ( 65 , pp.153–6 ; 84 , p.309 ) . |
| 25 | The references to Morgan v. Palmer and the other two cases and to the compulsion on the importer to adopt one of two courses suggest that O'Connor J. was referring to a situation where there was not only an unlawful demand but a means of enforcing it without recourse to litigation . |
| 26 | Before I joined the party 46 years ago , there was n't even a paved road from Lublin to Warsaw . ’ |
| 27 | There was n't even a 3A. 3D was unique and without context . |
| 28 | There was n't even a bed for me ; I slept on the sofa in the front room . |
| 29 | There was n't even a need for an ambulance . |
| 30 | There was n't even a careless whisper from George . |