Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [adv] [adj] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 2 | The record industry 's response to this situation was not particularly systematic but by now some trends are obvious : the average age of the pop market ( and especially the pop single-buying market ) is younger than it was ; record companies devote more attention to building big mainstream stars than to servicing a variety of musical tastes ; stars are now conceived and sold as multi-media performers ; there has been a steady decline in the significance of live music making except as a promotional device . |
| 3 | I was not particularly thirsty but mine was a minority view , apparently . |
| 4 | Others before Frank Kermode , in his suave and erudite but ultimately acidulous The Classic ( New York , 1975 ) , had protested that as a framework inside which real political decisions and actions could be taken , Eliot 's Virgilian-Dantesque perspective was not just useless but dangerous . |
| 5 | By the late eighties , it was not just permissible but de rigueur for bands to grow their hair long , drop acid , use wah wah and other quaint effects , play solos … |
| 6 | For senior management , the key to these productivity gains was not primarily technological but the introduction of new working practices based on fewer , more flexible job descriptions . |
| 7 | It was not yet dark but soon it would be and then the town would come alive . |
| 8 | The evenings were drawing out and it was not yet dark but the hall of Moorlake was shadowy and insubstantial in the twilight . |
| 9 | This was not strictly true but she was not going to give Matthew Preston the satisfaction of knowing that Jenny still yearned after him . |
| 10 | On the twenty-third of April each year , we held a dinner , at which , in honour of the patron saint , over-indulgence was not simply customary but mandatory . |
| 11 | ‘ All my school life , I was under the impression I was not completely stupid but pretty dumb so I never had that oomph . |
| 12 | Further studies in the 1960s tended to confirm Phillips 's findings , though there was also some evidence that the Phillips curve was not completely stable but tended to shift its position from one time period to another . |
| 13 | It was not perhaps natural but it had served him well , Nicholas knew , from the beginning . |
| 14 | He was not quite sixteen but he had long acted like a boy impatient of childhood . |
| 15 | What is impressive is that the failure of all that was so busily constructed , attempted and imagined , was not merely predictable but predicted . |
| 16 | But at the last moment she lost the desire to do so , because his face was not merely sad but forbidding , even hostile . |
| 17 | Her superiors in pastoral studies had , on the whole , been of the opinion it was not merely officious but often dangerous to move a drunk from the place he had chosen to lie down into one where he had not . |
| 18 | This letter from Mactavish reveals the assumption made in 1926 that it was the WEA 's exclusive duty and responsibility to provide working class education , but had he read the 1926 UEMCC report more searchingly he would have realised that the universities ' role was not merely advisory but intended to promote the development of liberal adult education independently of other providers . |
| 19 | From this it followed that kingship , like fatherhood , was a divine institution to which resistance was not merely impolitic but sinful . |
| 20 | The company said business in the first quarter was not fully satisfactory but it expects results for the full year 1993 to show an improvement over 1992 . |
| 21 | The mother in the corner had been told hers was not very well but he was a little boy and would probably live . |
| 22 | The radio was not very good but the tape and record players were excellent . |
| 23 | Savery 's invention was not very successful but he obtained an extension of the patent until 11733 . |
| 24 | That was not too bad but , like most ideas ahead of their time , I am afraid that it was voted down by 182 votes to 170 . |
| 25 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |
| 26 | He rapidly concluded that the classical ideal of government by the people was not only impossible but also undesirable on account of the proven ignorance , irrationality and apathy of the people . |
| 27 | This was not only humiliating but also very awkward for Baldwin . |
| 28 | Training was not only arduous but dangerous . |
| 29 | He silenced her with more kisses as he tried to remind himself that this young girl was not only innocent but trusted herself to his care ; that her father trusted him , and however uninhibited she might now appear to be , he must not abuse that faith . |
| 30 | Alongside the increasing prosperity was a widespread belief that the system of free enterprise which had produced this was not only efficient but just . |