Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would also be surprising if the problems for which we have developed such services , be they , in our case , radio isotope testing , or information retrieval software , or computer systems for stock or other control , were not equally recognized by competitors and people in other fields of business . |
| 2 | The meetings were informal and were not normally based upon consideration of specific statistical or financial reports , being instead discursive , impressionistic and somewhat gossipy . |
| 3 | German towns were not adequately equipped with clergy or churches ( Berlin in 1880 had churches for only 25,000 worshippers ) . |
| 4 | The 1984 Kirklees Report showed that ethnic minority clients were not well represented among CAB clients at the time . |
| 5 | Consumers , the report found , were not well informed regarding risks to health , and the mounting practice of eating raw fish was described as " disturbing " . |
| 6 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 7 | There is also a suggestion that in Britain the elaborate chambered tombs and long barrows , and such structures as Newgrange in Ireland , were not just used for burial but for other purposes as well . |
| 8 | People forget there were rumours going round that WIN and some of the other spies were not just penetrated in Poland , but betrayed by an agent inside SIS in London — apart from Philby . ’ |
| 9 | On this larger canvas uncertainties abound , and there is scope for contributions from changes in the Australian way of life that were not primarily adopted for health reasons . |
| 10 | To begin with , did you know that these black slaves were not even born in America ? |
| 11 | To ensure that conjugates were not non-specifically bound to eosinophils , control sections were treated with 1% chromotrope 2 R. |
| 12 | Further , KPMG alleges in the letter that the control mechanisms that were in place were not properly operated by management , and KPMG 's recommendations for them to be strengthened were accepted but not fully implemented . |
| 13 | Ya'kub and Fenarizade Zeyneddin , for example , rose from kasabat kadiliks to the kadiliks of Aleppo , and Damascus and Aleppo , respectively not long after the Ottoman conquest of those two cities ; but whether this means that these scholars ' careers represent exceptions to the rule or , on the other hand , that Aleppo and Damascus were not yet regarded as mevleviyets is not entirely clear . |
| 14 | In the early 1980s , such churches were not yet recognised as vehicles for providing housing and this ignorance of the potential of All Saints and St Barnabas generated a low purchase price which was a vital element in making the financing of this publicly funded scheme work within accepted limits . |
| 15 | He had a ‘ gut feeling ’ , he said , that the American people were not yet committed to war , and so he urged Mr Bush to pursue a meeting in Baghdad between James Baker , the secretary of state , and Saddam Hussein — as well as finding a date on which Iraq 's foreign minister could come to Washington . |
| 16 | About half of the infants in each group were not clinically dehydrated on presentation to hospital ( 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 99 ( 53% ) in group B ) , 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 75 ( 40% ) in group B were mildly dehydrated ( by up to 5% ) , 10 ( 5% ) in group A and 11 ( 6% ) in group B were moderately dehydrated ( 5–10% ) , and only one child in group A and two in group B were dehydrated by 10% or more . |
| 17 | Those of the fort 's garrison who were not instantly blown to pieces had their lungs burst by the blast waves travelling along the corridors . |
| 18 | These obstacles were not finally overcome until May 1944 ; in June the Allies liberated Rome . |
| 19 | The case for British bases in the Middle East was strengthened by such calculations , but the doubts of Attlee and others were not finally overcome until June 1947 . |
| 20 | Indeed Franco-Russian disputes on this issue flared up briefly once more in the 1760s and were not finally laid to rest until 1772 . |
| 21 | New Statutes were not finally approved until November of the following year , after much discussion . |
| 22 | We consider what old fishing boats , and even vessels that were not specially made for fishing , can be adapted and sent to fish for a year or two . |
| 23 | By this time retirement schemes were not merely rewards for work and service . |
| 24 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 25 | Very few beat the system and those who did were not much encouraged by Bloomsbury House . |
| 26 | Another segment displayed the night side of planet Karkason : a swell of blackness pricked with intermittent little red pimples which were the mouths of its active volcanos — those , at least , which were not currently cloaked by smoke … |
| 27 | These had always done quite well as buses were not then allowed on Anerley Hill . |
| 28 | Even if they were not now playing in Durham 's shadow , Yorkshire would be hard pressed to make out a good financial case for quitting Acklam Park . |
| 29 | The ancestral obligations of Gascon nobles , recorded in the Recognicionesfeodorum , were not only strengthened by Edward I 's Gascon visits of 1273–4 and 1286–9 . |
| 30 | Martha could feel now that her toes were not only wet with sweat but also sticky with blood . |