Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 2 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 3 | Emotions were n't considered part of school life . |
| 4 | But when he was n't conducting affairs of state , there 's nothing he enjoyed more for getting away from it all , than fly fishing . |
| 5 | But then he was n't carrying tons of lead on a keel that had to be dragged through the water . |