Example sentences of "was not [adj] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Clive & Stokes took on one partner from Barker , Peter Bingham ( who had been personnel Director of Bowater ) , the strategy was not successful and in 1986 the connection with Barker was severed . |
| 2 | The roof of the Victorian section was not water-tight and in some places it was leaking like a sieve . |
| 3 | Much of this was not respectable but at least it showed that popular music and humour could be channelled into the conventions of legitimate theatre . |
| 4 | Her output was not impressive but at least she succeeded for a couple of hours in driving the memory of Sybil 's murder into the back of her mind . |
| 5 | was not clean and in good working order |
| 6 | ‘ was not clean and in good working order ’ This point means among other things that the lamps in question must be kept clean as mud or snow could hide the light . |
| 7 | ‘ was not clean and in good working order ’ The defect must be described in detail to prove this point , e.g. ‘ Both bulbs were blown in the front obligatory lights and two white lights were not being shown to the front ’ or ‘ The rear nearside reflector was broken and part of it was missing , leaving only about a square centimetre of reflective material ’ etc . |
| 8 | Understood thus it avoids the questions ( and therefore the problems ) , which Leonard nowhere addresses : such as the historicity , canonicity and the like of the world-faiths — to his mind a species of academic involvement with which he was not interested and of which he was even disdainful . |
| 9 | The relatives of both Leofsige , abbot of Ely from 1029 to 1044 , and of Ælfwine , bishop of Elmham in Cnut 's reign , granted estates in Norfolk , Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to Ely when their sons entered the monastery , and the Liber Eliensis says that it was Leofsige 's own policy to accept no monk who was not well-educated and of good birth , so that the church might be enriched by liberality . |
| 10 | The document itself was not privileged and to that extent the other side was entitled to see part of the materials with the brief . |
| 11 | However , the Court of Appeal still confirmed that the application in Merrill Lynch was not patentable but on the grounds that there was no technical effect , the operation being entirely software based . |
| 12 | I decided that it was perhaps because they were n't possessive and had given no other human being the feeling that having been once disgorged he was n't safe and at any moment might find himself gobbled up again and back in the confines of a body not his own . |