Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were not doing it to supply the world 's newspapers and magazines with better pictures . |
| 2 | There is an issue about how much choice some people can exercise and I recognise that issue but the idea was not to force anybody to make the move . |
| 3 | Mutual cooperation was undesirable from the generals ' point of view , because it was n't helping them to win the war . |
| 4 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 5 | He was n't doing it to advance the Allied cause . |