Sentence examples for was being not from inspiring English sources
When Michael Young wrote The Rise of the Meritocracy in 1958 he was being not descriptive but satirical.
"I felt he was being not very considerate or nice to me about this, but I also had this feeling that I really liked him," she said.
I made this film in pace with this evolving nightmare in the US in which torture was being not just condoned, but celebrated.
"It sounds like Coke was being not only careful in how they structured the waiver, but provided to their employees the disclosure that was required".
But with prosecutors investigating whether the auction houses fixed prices and questioning every move they make, it was obvious that a message was being not so subtly delivered, even at this distance.
He's still fighting it, or fighting for redemption from it, out there in the desert evening, while in Liverpool, his name was being not just booed by some but implicitly repudiated by the new Miliband politics of "values".
What that substance was is not known.
Pining for what was is not productive.
