Example sentences of "was not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first started , I was not exactly working toward a goal , but having fun collecting with Basil Taylor 's assistance . |
| 2 | Horowitz was not even looking at her : opening his executive case , he lifted the base , sorted through several documents , found what he was looking for and shut the case . |
| 3 | I was not even wanting to be alone . |
| 4 | And as scores of saffron-clad fans in the 6,000-strong crowd wended their way towards the exits , it seemed as if there was not even going to be a respectable attendance at the funeral ! |
| 5 | War weariness was increasing the unpopularity of the Whigs , and although the Tories were happy with Queen Anne , the prospect of the succession of the House of Hanover , foreign Lutherans who were known to be sympathetic to the Whigs , was not particularly appealing to them . |
| 6 | The woman was not just getting on her nerves now . |
| 7 | That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was not just looking for the most experienced people but there were other attributes I wanted to see , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Price Waterhouse , it seems , was not just investing in the Prudential by dropping the audit fee by 14% . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you want me to stay ? ’ she asked simply , and he knew she was not just talking about leaving the room . |
| 11 | He had shut himself within , and was not easily going to be drawn out again . |
| 12 | At this juncture , although he was not yet living at Chelsea , Sloane intervened as saviour and benefactor of the Garden . |
| 13 | The Baikal-Amur Mainline railway ( BAM — see pp. 33476-77 ) finally entered into commission in November 1989 , although it was not yet working at full capacity and much of the infrastructure around it was still being built . |
| 14 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 15 | In Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1978 ] 3 WLR 116 the defendant was not simply competing with the plaintiff during his employment but was also taking steps to prepare to compete once he had left by dealing with customers and suppliers of his employer . |
| 16 | Despite Aubrey 's warning , Harry became convinced that Madeleine was not simply flirting with him . |
| 17 | Already wise to the ways of two of the most notoriously sharkish industries , TV and pop , Kylie was not however going to Hollywood with her eyes closed . |
| 18 | Poverty is only relative , and it must be remembered that Mozart , although frequently ‘ financially embarrassed ’ , was not actually living in real hardship . |
| 19 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 20 | When Richard Crossman described secrecy as the British disease , he was not merely referring to the terms of the Official Secrets Act . |
| 21 | And Flupper was not merely heading for them , he was in among them ! |
| 22 | Tealtaoich was not exactly padding into the forest and he was not precisely slinking into it either . |
| 23 | Though that did not mean that , in his bubble chamber , Akbar was not still writhing in the agony of pseudo-injury — terrible burns and blindness — as he struggled to master such huge referred pain . |
| 24 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 25 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 26 | Mitch , of course , was not now speaking to her . |
| 27 | Maggie was thankful that her heart had settled down a bit and was not now hammering in her chest like a wild bird . |
| 28 | She was not really looking for an answer . |
| 29 | The only complaint — and she was not really complaining against her uncle , perhaps I should rather say the cause for depression — was that from time to time she was very homesick and longed to see her mother and girls of her own age . ’ |
| 30 | He was not really thinking about Matthew Choak but about the dead man . |