Example sentences of "[was/were] not [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parts of it were not raised with me before today 's debate . |
| 2 | It was the warden 's duty to see that the deer in the forest were supplied with sufficient food in times of scarcity , and that they were not hunted by anyone without authority from the king or the Chief Justice of the Forest . |
| 3 | In other words , the potentialities of the medium were not explored to anything like the same extent' ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 4 | The decisions of regional brewers such as Boddingtons and Greenalls to cease brewing were commercial ones taken by the managements of those companies and they were not forced on them by any of the Government 's measures . |
| 5 | Unless the tenant here was a statutorily protected tenant , as the premises were not let to her on an excluded tenancy she is entitled to the benefit of that protection . |
| 6 | Like many of the expatriate teachers here , he obviously has strong sympathies with the Chinese communist line , and that 's probably why we were n't introduced to him by the embassy . |
| 7 | She tells that there is only a photograph of one kitten ( left ) as the keepers were n't allowed near them by the mother , Cato . |
| 8 | The guards had always said that they were n't bothered about anyone in British gaols , so we 'd hoped it would be easier for us to get out than for the others . |
| 9 | This is a most regrettable incident , but I can not accept a charge that the Army did not take the allegations seriously and that the full and thorough investigation was not conducted in anything but a professional and sympathetic manner . |
| 10 | Very few American politicians and officials were aware of the secret Quebec Agreement , which was not revealed to them until May 1947 , and none knew of the Hyde Park Aide-Memoir , which had been filed amongst Roosevelt 's papers . |
| 11 | Blessed are you , Simon son of Jonah , for this was not revealed to you by man but by my Father in heaven . |
| 12 | He had plenty of time to prepare this great phrase , for the outrage was said to have happened in 1731 and he was not asked about it until 1738 , but the delay led to no awkward questions ; by the late 1730s Parliament was growing increasingly annoyed with Spanish interference with British trade , and it was not willing to let Walpole go on with his peaceful policy . |
| 13 | She was made Head Girl and although it was not acknowledged by anyone in authority , she was already drinking too much . |
| 14 | The parents were delighted that the decision was theirs and was not imposed on them by others . |
| 15 | He had never asked her to marry him , he had never even said directly and seriously ‘ I love you ’ , he was not bound to her in any way explicitly . |
| 16 | Apart from this final item — a charge which District Audit assure me is not made by most other banks and which was not made by yourselves in previous years — I have been very happy with the standard of service provided by Natwest Bank . |
| 17 | The matter was not further pursued , and was not raised before us by Mr. Beloff . |
| 18 | I wrote to the Northern Ireland representative of the Attorney General on 28th June 1974 , but a reply was not sent to me until August 1st . |
| 19 | It is to be observed that in the Bognor Regis case Browne J. did not consider whether his decision had any effect on the right to freedom of expression , doubtless because the point was not taken before him by the defendant , who appeared in person . |
| 20 | It was not delivered to me in clear words , but in some sort of squeaky Other Side music with which he aided my understanding . |
| 21 | Yerofeev , it is said , chose this way of life deliberately and was not forced into it by economic circumstances , but inevitably such a life style would induce a sense of infinite weariness and degradation — which Courtenay 's appearance fails to convey . |
| 22 | The Queen 's argument was that , if something was n't done about it in less than no time , she 'd have everybody executed , all round . |
| 23 | This sofa was n't designed for someone like me . ’ |
| 24 | But at least , he would console himself , I was n't driven to it by ideology , by politics , religion or prejudice . |
| 25 | Actually that was n't sung by anyone at the game on Saturday . |
| 26 | Sometimes being born with every apparent advantage in life spawns the deepest need to create something just by oneself , to say : ‘ This was n't handed to me on a plate , but I did it just the same ! ’ |