Example sentences of "was not [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tealtaoich was not exactly padding into the forest and he was not precisely slinking into it either . |
| 2 | The trouble was that ( where it was not already part of tradition ) the introduction of piece-work was often resisted , especially by the skilled men , and that it was complex and obscure not only for the workers , but for employers who often had only the haziest idea of what production-norms to set . |
| 3 | There was not even evidence of men initially without such predilections enduring a process of seduction . |
| 4 | There was not even tension or anxiety . |
| 5 | He was not even Bishop of the Cornish See at the time of his imprisonment . |
| 6 | It was not properly inflation proofed , but anyone who paid national insurance contributions , even at the reduced rate , during that period will have a right to some graduated pension , however small , or to an equivalent amount from an employer 's scheme . |
| 7 | Californian sunshine was not particularly kind to the English complexion , and circumstances had evidently not treated Laura well . |
| 8 | When the group began , Gedge was not particularly interest in lyric-writing , and like singing , he considered it a necessary evil . |
| 9 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
| 10 | Sutton 's focus on the Sun , and on headlines like ‘ GOTCHA ! ’ , was not just rivalry with its editor , Kelvin Mackenzie . |
| 11 | John Bryan was not just Steve 's good friend but also a distant relation . |
| 12 | The business of Eurame was not just drugs and cash , however . |
| 13 | It was signed by the organisation 's prize draw manager no less so it was not just case of anybody going round breaking the good news . |
| 14 | That was not just vanity . |
| 15 | But Ferrari , even then , was not just Luca . |
| 16 | It was not just jealousy . |
| 17 | It was not just Diana who had to face the music but her parents as well . |
| 18 | He thought that a lot of residence was of high importance ; for he believed that the object of higher education was not just information , or preparation for a career , but a community of minds and personalities . |
| 19 | She was not just Fenna 's friend and child , his daughter of delight . |
| 20 | It was not just street demonstrators who were assembled against us . |
| 21 | It was not primarily ideas of democracy , which , as we have seen , only enjoyed a diluted existence in the eighteenth century , but popular action , and above all the eruption of the French people into politics in the years of the Revolution , that transformed the modern history of democracy . |
| 22 | It was not yet dusk , but the drive up to Kevin 's mock Tudor house was lined with lit-up toadstools . |
| 23 | In the half-light that was not yet day , roadside trees could conceal could even be — the dreaded pursuers , caught up with him at last . |
| 24 | Meanwhile I 'd go round the town interviewing trade unionists , redundant workers , councillors , tenants and community associations : the reform of men was not yet part of their agenda . |
| 25 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 26 | It was not yet May but it was a May morning ; the sun was shining and there was that certain sparkle in the air ; air which , despite all that has been done to it , Wycliffe still found good to breathe . |
| 27 | The Captain General , a civilian as much as a military administrator , was master of his province , the corregidor of his district as the minister was not yet master of his department . |
| 28 | The time was not yet noon . |
| 29 | It was not yet time to speak of the smoke and the expedition . |
| 30 | It was not yet time for Johann to open the front door for my friends , and I still had to wait . |