Example sentences of "[pron] were not [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the revolution , those authors who were not simply names to fill space on the badly produced jacket were usually sufficiently embarrassed to try to explain away their participation in the cult of Ceauşescu and thereby in lengthening his rule . |
| 2 | They announced they were not even prepared to come in and talk . |
| 3 | They were not even allowed to take such belongings as they had — pots and stools and the like . |
| 4 | They were not even allowed to attempt to grow things in tubs in their black area , for reasons vague but peremptory , put forward by their landlady , an octogenarian Mrs Irving , who inhabited the three floors above them in a rank civet fug amongst unnumbered cats , and who kept the garden as bright and wholesome and well-ordered as her living-room was sparse and decomposing . |
| 5 | In Orkney not only did the parents not see or have any access to their children , they were not even allowed to communicate by letter or telephone . |
| 6 | They were not usually intended to produce a modern type of financial statement and only very rough approximations can be wrung out of them . |
| 7 | Admittedly the Lord Treasurers were , until the appointment of Paulet in 1552 , unqualified noblemen ; but they were not usually expected to perform any serious duties . |
| 8 | They were not legally entitled to do so as teenagers and various factors may trigger their desire to find their birth parents at this stage . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman 's synthetic protestations about unemployment would carry a little more conviction if he were not so determined to advance policies which , by introducing a national statutory minimum wage , by embracing the European Commission 's social action programme and by imposing a jobs tax on employers , would make unemployment far , far higher than it otherwise would be . |