Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there seemed to be a dim edge of light round each eyelid , as if it were not utterly pitch-dark here at the bottom of the sea . |
| 2 | Existing low profit products were to be corrected with a cost reduction and profit improvement plan , or chased out where such improvements were not economically feasible . |
| 3 | Carers living in the same household as the person receiving care , female carers , those with sole responsibility for providing care and those who were not economically active were especially disadvantaged . |
| 4 | If as a captain he was not authoritarian enough , that was just not his style ; given opposition that were not vastly superior he could lead a team well enough , and chalked up two notable series wins against India and Australia . |
| 5 | In the US , women were treated for ‘ masturbatory orgasmic inadequacy , ’ which would be laughable if it were not both sad and harmfully misleading . |
| 6 | The villages were not where expected and a good morning 's walk passed before our first contact with people — an open-mouthed lad driving two cows up the path . |
| 7 | Opportunities to invest in other sectors were not equally available to all those ranks in society able to save . |
| 8 | In the February I 987 general election the fifteen counts required in the Dublin South-East constituency were not notably exceptional . |
| 9 | The failure of a small group of teachers ( who even if they were not professionally inept were certainly politically naïve ) was used to provide ammunition for an attack on schools whose approach to learning diverged from the traditional . |
| 10 | While , admittedly , these were not normally conspicuous in the case of women , for Zeinab they were substantial . |
| 11 | Punks were not normally aggressive , and though he adhered to his normal practice of avoiding eye contact in public places he was fairly relaxed about them . |
| 12 | Success rates were not markedly different for higher attainers and lower attainers . |
| 13 | Examination of the courses they attended suggested that these were not uniformly suitable for wives and that more courses aimed at helping wives to substitute for husbands in an emergency would be useful . |
| 14 | In our study bone densities were not uniformly low at all sites , and fractures can not easily be explained by the use of steroids or disease activity . |
| 15 | A spatial analysis of calcium release triggered by applying increasing doses of InsP 3 to Xenopus oocytes revealed the existence of hot spots , confirming that the InsP 3 -sensitive stores were not uniformly sensitive . |
| 16 | Spectators were not surprisingly unsympathetic to the rare protests of professionals about the maximum wage and the retain-and-transfer system . |
| 17 | ‘ There are many examples of big science [ projects ] in this decade where the results have become increasingly divorced from industry , because the results were not industrially relevant , ’ explained Patrick Jenkin , the Secretary of State for Industry . |
| 18 | ‘ They were very negligent but they were not criminally negligent , ’ said one barrister . |
| 19 | Evolutionary sources of ‘ goodness ’ have been defined earlier as arising from beneficial changes , changes which were not beneficial being simply designated ‘ not good ‘ because they were not intentionally harmful . |
| 20 | Some boys wore boots which had not only had previous owners and were not well fitting but also had soles and heels covered with metal studs . |
| 21 | In this work it is extraordinarily easy to produce ghost images and chimeras , like the canals on Mars , which may or may not be cracks , but even if Andrade 's patterns showed genuine surface cracks , which seems likely , this would not prove that there were not also internal cracks . |
| 22 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 23 | I do n't know if it was by accident — I should ask him one day — but I used to play that over and over again and just revel in that sound , and I thought if you could get hold of that sound and make a feature of it , and if it were not just two guitars but as many as you needed to make a proper arrangement , the possibilities would be endless . |
| 24 | NoS people were not just inexperienced in business , but were opposed to its methods , and consciously trying to do things in a different way to prove the rottenness of the capitalist system . |
| 25 | In 1925 , considering a book by Cecil Sharp on the history of dancing , Eliot made the criticism that though Sharp was a historian , he was neither a philosopher nor an anthropologist , and so his brief notes were not just insufficient , but actually conducive to error . |
| 26 | Left as they were , they were not just incompetent but dangerous . |
| 27 | Childe had in mind that human evolution and development were not just passive responses to an external environment , but were the result of humanity 's own efforts . |
| 28 | Marx 's particular claim was that the macro-historical laws which he had discovered were not just speculative but had a scientific status . |
| 29 | By three o'clock , the twenty-five to thirty-foot sets were not just immense , but increasingly gnarly and hard to handle . |
| 30 | A large proportion of those in the studio were not just anti-government : they were anti-politicians , period . |