Example sentences of "[was/were] not [vb pp] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | B. T. We had to make sure — it was the strictness on our part — that gangs were n't allowed to gather on the corner . |
| 2 | You were n't allowed to punch on the break . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |
| 4 | She reached the junction of the lane with the main road , and there she waited , because she was not allowed to go on the main road with her cycle . |
| 5 | Thus the tenant will not be permitted to rely on his own breach of his repairing obligations in order to depress the rent payable on review ( Harmsworth Pension Funds Trustees v Charringtons Industrial Holdings ( 1985 ) 49 P&CR 297 ) , and a surety who had guaranteed the obligations of a tenant was not allowed to rely on the tenant 's failure to register an assignment with the landlord in order to escape liability under his surety covenant ( Cerium Investments v Evans ( 1991 ) 62 P&CR 203 ) . |