Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fellows seems to have acted in the sale of the Grand Union to the Grand Junction , for in a letter to the Grand Union he pointed out that the price would have to be realistic , bearing in mind that they were not dealing with a willing purchaser . |
| 2 | Frequent prior recurrence ( p=0.464 ) , a heavy physical workload ( p=0.145 ) , and psychological stress ( p=0.062 ) were not associated with a decreased healing rate and there were too few patients at risk to allow assessment of the effect of regular NSAID intake . |
| 3 | The following risk factors were not associated with a decreased healing rate at two , four , or eight weeks respectively : male gender ( 38.5% , 69.6% , 93.2% ) ; age under 40 years ( 39.5% , 72.9% , 93.3% ) ; alcohol ( 40.1% , 71.9% , 93.7% ) ; beer ( 39.5% , 70.7% , 92.9% ) ; spirits ( 39.8% , 71.4% , 95.2% ) ; coffee ( 38.4% , 71.3% , 93.8% ) ; tea ( 40.8% , 69.8% , 93.4% ) ; a family history of duodenal ulcer disease ( 37.8% , 68.9% , 93.3% ) ; prior ulcer haemorrhage ( 34.8% , 68.9% , 94.2% ) ; concomitant illness ( 37.5% , 68.5% , 92.8% ) ; immigrant worker status ( 37.5% , 70.5% , 92.1% ) ; shift work ( 36.5% , 73.0% , 93.8% ) ; or a history of ulcer disease for more than 10 years ( 39.3%. 68.0% , 91.9% ) . |
| 4 | Rises in basal oesophageal pressure due to straining or breath holding were excluded by recognition of similar rises in the gastric pressure tracing , whereas true oesophageal body common cavity episodes were not associated with a comparable change of intragastric pressure ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 5 | Professor John Garrow of the Department of Nutrition at St Bartholomew 's hospital in London , and Britain 's foremost authority on weight loss , estimates that around half the slim adult population were n't born with a magic inability to gain weight . |
| 6 | The fieldworker was not provided with a formal set of interview questions to work through systematically ; a formal questionnaire is replaced with modules or sets of questions organized around specific topics . |
| 7 | The aircraft was not equipped with a take-off-out-of-trim warning device . |
| 8 | The slot was n't occupied with a high speed video or IDE host adaptor , although Western Systems will offer a VL Bus video card in the near future . |