Example sentences of "was not [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that everything relating to my loss was scribbled in children 's school jotters with cartoon covers was not exactly a boost to my confidence . |
| 2 | There is general agreement that Balder was not exactly a dynamic deity — indeed , he has been described as ‘ a passive suffering figure ’ . |
| 3 | There was something in her face that was unfamiliar ; it was not exactly a different expression — more as if her eyes were not her own . |
| 4 | She was not exactly a refugee from the violence of invaders like many other Anglo-Saxon women , including one whose case we shall soon encounter : she was simply a woman of royal birth being educated in a monastery awaiting a suitable marriage . |
| 5 | It was not exactly a novel sentiment , but from now on the dominant message from within the Tory ranks would be that the welfare state had weakened family ties , the increase of working mothers had produced ‘ a growing decline in parental responsibility ’ , and ‘ affluence ’ had undermined the nation 's moral fibre . |
| 6 | But I had a very strict Mormon church upbringing and it was not exactly a taboo subject , but it was just taken for granted that you did n't do that until you got married . |
| 7 | Marguerite was not exactly a motherly woman , but she was in some way comfortable . |
| 8 | She was not exactly a romantic figure . |
| 9 | If in order to get to the root of it Eliot consulted a Viennese expert , the result was not evidently a cure , because I believe he suffered from it all his life : but the consultation , if that was what it was , may have benefited him by disclosure — ‘ the luxury of an intimate disclosure to a stranger ’ . |
| 10 | What she really meant was that the child 's affections were being alienated ; this was not wholly a fair charge . |
| 11 | The ability to propagate cracks freely under a small stress was not wholly a disadvantage to primitive man who was thus able to shape flint and obsidian , which are more or less natural glasses , into various cutting tools . |
| 12 | He was not wholly a man of nostalgia , and the road accident which cost him his son at the age of 21 all but destroyed his religious faith . |
| 13 | Farrell uses the fact that O'Neill joined the Apprentice Boys of Derry and the Royal Black Preceptory ( two Protestant fraternal organizations similar to the Orange Order ) to portray him as a ‘ closet ’ die-hard unionist but in so doing misses the glaring point that O'Neill had to join these organizations because he was not already a member . |
| 14 | Such reformers usually saw themselves as making it possible for the Masai to survive as a race : getting obsessed with the Masai was not inherently a passive occupation . |
| 15 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 16 | The market signals proved totally wrong as Dead Certain drifted out ominously in the betting and Chimes Of Freedom was backed as if defeat was not even a remote possibility . |
| 17 | In Romania , however , there was not even a ripple when Mr Gorbachev went to Bucharest to preside over a Warsaw Pact summit in July . |
| 18 | His Chief Staff Officer was not even a full member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee , the chairmanship of which was rotated between the three Service ‘ Chiefs ’ . |
| 19 | I had my own experience years ago with your cousin 's Uncle Merritt , and he was not even a relation of ours . |
| 20 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 21 | It was not even a large house , only tall , with long flights of steep stairs , and had two rooms on each of the four floors . |
| 22 | We were like a convoy of ships , save that our horizon was a trembling yellow band , and there was not even a wake to indicate our movement . |
| 23 | It was not even a close-run thing : not the least astounding feature of this remarkable game was the huge margin — 155 runs — of victory . |
| 24 | In the fiercely contested Shannon-Garryowen tie there was not even a hint of unseemly conduct and the silence afforded the placekickers was , as usual on this ground , total . |
| 25 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 26 | There was not even a sense of anger , or regret . |
| 27 | He answered his letters in long-hand , and when he retired there was not even a typewriter in the building . |
| 28 | His life was ordered , there was not even a hint of chaos in it now . |
| 29 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 30 | And there was not even a pretence of mourning among the reporters and photographers who clogged Cookham churchyard and followed the cortège to Slough Crematorium and back . |