Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frequent complaint that ships , once requisitioned , were not actually used for several months , thereby denying their owners the use of them in between times , was not always the fault of the wind or weather . |
| 2 | Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades . |
| 3 | It was emphasised that this event was not only intended for those interested in ecumenical groups . |
| 4 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 5 | She was n't really dressed for this . |