Example sentences of "[pron] were not [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They announced they were not even prepared to come in and talk . |
| 2 | They were not even allowed to take such belongings as they had — pots and stools and the like . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were not usually intended to produce a modern type of financial statement and only very rough approximations can be wrung out of them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |