Example sentences of "was not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not exactly run along the lines of a ship of the Royal Navy . |
| 2 | This justifiable attitude was not exactly vindicated by their young local doctor who , having been rejected by the army and brimming with psychological theories , explained to Harriet , dogmatically and at length , that Liza was unable to help her condition — no one in those days referred to post-natal depression — and every allowance must be made because of the tragic death of her husband . |
| 3 | When I first started , I was not exactly working toward a goal , but having fun collecting with Basil Taylor 's assistance . |
| 4 | But M3 was not successfully targeted in the early Thatcher years . |
| 5 | The shift was not wholly imposed from the outside . |
| 6 | Balfour ( who was not wholly convinced by the plotters and who refused finally to do their bidding ) sent a message to Baldwin to say that the constitutional course was to meet Parliament . |
| 7 | It was not wholly superseded until the publication of Richard Westfall 's Never at Rest in 1980 ( a condensed , updated version of this biography is soon to be published by Cambridge University Press as The Life of Isaac Newton ) . |
| 8 | Within the Main Library , all consultations had to be recorded by signature of the declaration form at the front of each thesis , but this was not rigorously enforced in the departmental libraries , largely due to staff shortages which precluded adequate supervision . |
| 9 | But there seemed no one about who was not already occupied with his own legitimate business . |
| 10 | Irony was not frequently encountered in the literature on the Iran-Iraq conflict . |
| 11 | The new emphasis was not universally approved of , purists objecting to what they saw as a tendency for accountants to look a project over and approve or disapprove of it from the beginning . |
| 12 | And this process was not immediately halted by the accession to power of the Bolsheviks . |
| 13 | He was not immediately arrested at the airport but kept under close surveillance . |
| 14 | The branch line was not immediately axed by Beeching , but the writing was on the wall , and on 3 January 1972 the last passenger train left Swanage ‘ from a station little more than a ghost ’ . |
| 15 | Since the scales were minimal by any standards , the refugee organisations were still in need of help , none more so than the RCM which , for some curious reason , was not immediately included In the government s grant scheme . |
| 16 | I then said I was a friend of Sir Randolph Routh and that if the agent was not immediately taken in charge for assault , I should send in the strongest adverse report on his conduct of this entire vile business . |
| 17 | It was not positively identified till 1854 , when an American collector described one . |
| 18 | The former Ryder Cup man was not here to work on swings ; merely to pass on some of his knowledge on course management . |
| 19 | Gordon Strachan 's return after injury left no place for Rocastle who was not even named among the substitutes . |
| 20 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 21 | Built around a supremely non-standard hardware configuration , costly to acquire and complex to use , it was not even supported by a steady subsequent flow of new , compatible software so the investment in the hardware could be amortised across a range of classroom applications . |
| 22 | Ultimately it could censure the Commission and so dismiss the whole body , but such an action was so extreme that its use was not even threatened until 1972 . |
| 23 | well — there is still some kind of hope ( NOT ! i guess ) — but i still ca n't see why he was not even given at least a whole second-half this season . |
| 24 | This extreme view was not even sustained by Smith himself , although it has been repeated at intervals by people who should have known better . |
| 25 | The eve-of-talks optimism of the Sacu president , Geoff Daikin , was not even dented by the state-run television , which quoted him as saying that Sacu would push for the tour at all costs . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was not even wanting to be alone . |
| 28 | The proposal was not even expressed in Bill form in the White Paper , and the proper interpretation of the legislation once enacted is a matter for the courts . |
| 29 | She was not even bothered by glittering black eyes , and her own clear grey eyes met his indignantly . |
| 30 | Her excitement was not even dampened by Robert Simpson 's disapproval of her plans . |