Example sentences of "was not [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slavery was not exactly an enviable affair , its memory haunts much of our literature and is aggravated by the recent Colonial past of many nations . |
| 2 | It was not even an uninterrupted holiday . |
| 3 | Cinema was not just an entertainment for our generation . |
| 4 | Marx 's exposition of capitalism was not just an attempt to show its nature and its temporary character , it also showed how capitalism has an inner dynamic which brings about its development , its fruition , and ultimately its destruction . |
| 5 | For the early Church , however , water was not just an image , but a dramatic and essential element in the blessing that God was going to give . |
| 6 | The covenant was not just an important past event preserved by tradition but was the theme of what Gunnell calls ‘ a communal drama played out between Yahweh — He who will be there — and His people in time ’ , for in the words of Deuteronomy 5 : 3 , ‘ The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers , but with us , even us , who are all of us here alive this day . ’ |
| 7 | This was not just an effect of small scale distribution , but perhaps particularly due to their explicit problematisation of realism and of the conventional pleasures of cinema-viewing within the film text . |
| 8 | This was not just an old man 's hatred of change ; the sonnet Steamboats , Viaducts , and Railways ( 1833 ) is surprisingly in favour of these evidences of man 's ability , and concludes : |
| 9 | Goblander was not just an anagram on old banger , it really expressed the way that decrepit old van had of gobbling up petrol as it chugged through the countryside making awful noises because it needed a new silencer . |
| 10 | Goldsmiths College was not just an art school . |
| 11 | The series encapsulated many of the important social and political issues of the time and therefore was not just an academic analysis . |
| 12 | But it was not just an imitation of Gielgud . ’ |
| 13 | Lord Bellomont 's position as Governor in New York , Massachusetts , and New Hampshire , and military commander in Connecticut , Rhode Island , and New Jersey was similar enough to the position held by the Governor of the Dominion of New England to show that unification was not just an eccentric idea launched by James II . |
| 14 | Overcrowding was not just an urban problem . |
| 15 | For Gertrude Jekyll the arts and crafts creed of unity of the arts was not just an artistic concept but fundamental to her special art and skills in home-making which she passed on to Lutyens , inspiring him to build not just houses but homes . |
| 16 | The Prussian state , as often noted , was not just an external entity , but an entity profoundly incorporated into the consciousness of individual Germans . |
| 17 | The Glengall Street bomb was not just an attack on buildings . |
| 18 | The Conference was not just an affair , mounted at great trouble and expense , at which the Party 's footsoldiers were given four days simply to kick over the traces . |
| 19 | Young as he was , tom was not just an observer . |
| 20 | Robert Smithson , for the applicants , assured the Bench that the development was not just an excuse for a pub . |
| 21 | There must have been times when their hearts were in their mouths , for it was not just an act of business long-sightedness , it was of some bravery ! |
| 22 | Chairman I was delighted to hear Mr and our members with the comments , it was not just an officer from , the members ' comments as well , and I hope we can work together in fulfilling these promises , what are the most important roads ? |
| 23 | As a single woman officer the crunch would come if she wished to marry someone who was not also an officer . |
| 24 | Whitehouse 's was not primarily an attack on homosexuals : it was in the first instance an attack on the imputation of a sexual context to Christ 's death ; in the second it was a confrontation with an anti-Christian and , to her , sexually-obsessed society , and it was this latter symbolic aspect to the events of the blasphemy trial which was the main point . |
| 25 | This requirement , not being a treatment need , was not primarily an NHS responsibility . |
| 26 | This was not altogether an exaggeration as he had lost much of his stomach in his operation and was supposed to be on a rigid diet . |
| 27 | There was not yet an established concept of intellectual property and to the count there seemed no harm in the deception ; it was simply an innocent amusement . |
| 28 | If , during the first decade of the seventeenth century , he was not yet an outspoken Copernican , he was nevertheless a virulent critic of Aristotle , soon arousing the hostility of Ludovico delle Colombe who , in seeking to protect the immutability of the heavens , had to endure Galileo 's exposure . |
| 29 | It was sometimes hard to keep in mind the fact that Kadan was not yet an adult . |
| 30 | Consequently , as Southern has argued , ‘ history was not simply an adornment : it was a necessity ’ . |