Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meetings were informal and were not normally based upon consideration of specific statistical or financial reports , being instead discursive , impressionistic and somewhat gossipy . |
| 2 | The 1984 Kirklees Report showed that ethnic minority clients were not well represented among CAB clients at the time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Indeed Franco-Russian disputes on this issue flared up briefly once more in the 1760s and were not finally laid to rest until 1772 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By this time retirement schemes were not merely rewards for work and service . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | Martha could feel now that her toes were not only wet with sweat but also sticky with blood . |
| 14 | They were not only pressed into service , but were forced to become Muslims and to learn Turkish , and they were not allowed to marry . |
| 15 | They were not only revived from time to time in Venice during the next twenty years but performed in a number of other Italian cities . |
| 16 | Like some other promising sportsmen who believe their intellectual powers were not sufficiently energized at school , he went to college , abandoned his sports career and became a solicitor 's accountant . |
| 17 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 18 | There can be no doubt that in the early years of the twentieth century the use of revolvers was widespread among adult mobsters in London 's criminal underworld , and that feuds between rival outfits were not uncommonly settled by gun battles in the open streets . |
| 19 | We estimate that 13206 ( 12% ) of the 114362 women were delivered at hospitals where they were not initially booked for delivery ( table I ) . |
| 20 | And this was only a part of the ceremonial which surrounded the office with glamour and reminded the king 's subjects that he was God 's anointed — a notion which inspired them with great awe , when they were not actually engaged in rebellion against him . |
| 21 | Ribose ring puckers are not well defined at this resolution , and were not specifically restrained during refinement , but deviate little from their original C2'- endo conformation in the initial model . |
| 22 | Unlike the case in earlier phases of the war , the German people were not systematically prepared by propaganda for the opening of the war against the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | These rates were not significantly affected by subdivision of the diet group into those who achieved a high fibre score from mainly non-bran sources ( n=7 ) and those who were compliant in taking bran supplements ( 31.4 ( 18.6 ) % v 49.4 ( 13.9 ) % respectively by LTA at 42 months : NS ) . |
| 24 | All other exposure variables were not significantly related to fecundity . |
| 25 | Republican Senator John C. Danforth , the self-appointed mediator between the two sides , expressed his dismay over Bush 's opposition to a provision of Danforth 's proposed compromise bill which would prohibit employers from adopting employment standards which were not directly related to job performance . |
| 26 | Last year , a couple of their events were not fully covered by sponsorship income and it is doubtful whether Mark McCormack will want to add to the £2million or so he has already poured in . |
| 27 | Since the hiring and payment would be the responsibility of the male collier , women were not usually recorded in colliery accounts . " |
| 28 | From these few examples , it was obvious that the theoretical principles related to the spread of infection were not always put into practice . |
| 29 | They were n't particularly bothered by telltale wrinkles . |
| 30 | ‘ London is a nice place to visit , but being from the North of England we were n't exactly overflowing with money . |