Example sentences of "were not [adj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , if it were not possible to refer to different topics of discourse , there would be no occasion for referring to anything as " the same " . |
| 2 | We had all arrived early — the prayers were not due to start for another half-hour — but already the vast courtyard was three-quarters full . |
| 3 | About eighteen people escaped from this tunnel and they were not all recaptured until four days later . |
| 4 | However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges . |
| 5 | In Moughal v. Motherwell District Licensing Board , 1083 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 84 and Robertson v. Inverclyde Licensing Board , 1979 S.L.T. ( sh.Ct. ) 16 it was held that the licensing board were not entitled to proceed on local knowledge of the members , where the parties were not given an opportunity to comment thereon . |
| 6 | For discussion of " partnership " and transfer from individual licence holder to partnership , see Singh and Kaur v. Kirkcaldy District Licensing Board , 1988 S.L.T. 286 , where it was decided that the licence was held by a partnership with a separate legal persona and that the board were not entitled to look behind that persona at the partners as individuals . |
| 7 | Erosion has also occurred as a result of overgrazing ( particularly in the Zambesi Valley ) , the monoculture of maize and over smaller areas , tobacco , and of some European settler farmers who profitably exploited land in the Eastern Province during the tobacco boom but were not prepared to invest in long-term conservation measures . |
| 8 | Heroines , at least the ones he saw on television or in the cinema , were not supposed to look like this . |
| 9 | Single girls of good family were not supposed to know of such things , but Sally-Anne , if not an active suffragette , knew about Miss Annie Besant , and those who said that women should not be tied to endless childbearing and that there were practical ways of avoiding it . |
| 10 | Sally-Anne approached the cubbyhole giving admission to the building with some trepidation , rightly so when the commissionaire had sniffed at her , and demanded to know why she sought admission — her clothing and general appearance were not those worn by other visitors to the editor . |
| 11 | Due to circumstances beyond our control , we were not able to proceed with any work on Glenburrell Bridge . |
| 12 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 13 | Modigliani and Utrillo were not difficult to enlist by this method . |
| 14 | The Welsh mountains were n't first explored by alpenstocked Victorians after the glories of recorded ascents , nor , most certainly , by Lycra-clad gymnasts in pursuit of same . |
| 15 | I set traps for you , and you seemed to fall into them — that is , you reacted as I longed for you to react , but you were n't supposed to react at all because you were n't supposed to feel anything for me ! |
| 16 | People were n't supposed to react like this . |
| 17 | Because we were n't able to define with any confidence areas of neovascularization in capillary tumours we 've based the study on those tumours with solid er solid tumours or those with solid elements . |
| 18 | There was n't just one flower out there , there were dozens , although the frogs were n't able to think like this because frogs ca n't count beyond one . |
| 19 | You know these youngsters they were n't prepared to stay on that gate . |