Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When desires disrupt co-operation their spontaneity is evident , when they support it nothing proves that they were not instilled in the first place by moral training . |
| 2 | Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose . |
| 3 | Interest in the nature of society was not lacking in the sixteenth century , and in one way or another commentators found a good deal to say about it . |
| 4 | The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation . |
| 5 | However , it was not used in the Second World War , nor in many other wars . |
| 6 | Inevitably , forecasters err on the side of optimism because it is always possible to keep whisky which remains unsold , but impossible to sell stock which was not produced in the first place . |
| 7 | There were other cases where the name of the rape survivor was not disclosed in the first press report but a few weeks later , the name would suddenly appear in front of several million readers . |
| 8 | What can you say about the game that was n't said in the last caption ? |
| 9 | And when you the schools , the shops in that area , I 'm not only surprised it was n't considered in the first place , but secondly , it is the key to the whole scheme and er although I 'm quite happy to move the erm recommendation , I must say that I have a very very deep concern regarding Road . |