Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of legislation which makes seat belt wearing compulsory , it is a matter of concern that 45% of the car passenger casualties in this age group were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident . |
| 2 | He would leave the packet open so that the desk sergeant saw they were not getting a parcel bomb . |
| 3 | It should be remembered , however , that the results of this project were obtained from 4th year pupils , not the 5th year , and that the schools involved were not operating a GCSE curriculum . |
| 4 | An impressive 17 per cent of the potential readers were not buying a Sunday paper at the moment . |
| 5 | The Communists , critics argued , were merely in search of political stability , and security and were not attempting a world takeover . |
| 6 | ‘ We were not offering a babysitting service . ’ |
| 7 | He was not wearing a crash helmet . |
| 8 | When the accident occurred he was not wearing a safety belt . |
| 9 | The plaintiff scaffolder was injured when he fell and was not wearing a safety belt . |
| 10 | Brian was not wearing a seat belt , was thrown forward and hit his head on the windscreen . |
| 11 | At the time of the accident the plaintiff was not wearing a seat belt . |
| 12 | ‘ The brief as far as I was concerned was not to imitate a dancehall record , not to try and pretend it came from Gussie 's Music Works or it was a Firehouse Crew production or something . |
| 13 | Although Ryman has been making art since 1954 and belongs to the generation of Jasper Johns , he did not exhibit his work until the later Sixties and was not given a solo museum exhibition until 1972 . |
| 14 | However , it is clear that he was not displaying a taxi roof sign . |
| 15 | In line with Ferreira da Nóbrega 's assurance that Brazil was not imposing a debt moratorium such as had been the case in February 1987 [ see pp. 35823-24 ; for lifting of moratorium see p. 36553 ] , and that payments would resume when the exchange situation permitted , payment was in fact made the following week . |
| 16 | One other decision ( June 1979 ) of passing interest was not to buy a wine bottle cooler because ‘ not enough wine is served to warrant it ’ … |
| 17 | He returned to Basle in April to find the hopes he had left there come to nothing : he was not to have a philosophy chair ( nor Rohde his own chair ) , and so he was obliged to remain , at least nominally , a philologist . |
| 18 | A prisoner wrote to me stating that , although he was worried about his father 's health , he was not allowed a telephone call . |