Example sentences of "were not [adv] [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It would also be surprising if the problems for which we have developed such services , be they , in our case , radio isotope testing , or information retrieval software , or computer systems for stock or other control , were not equally recognized by competitors and people in other fields of business .
2 Further , KPMG alleges in the letter that the control mechanisms that were in place were not properly operated by management , and KPMG 's recommendations for them to be strengthened were accepted but not fully implemented .
3 Very few beat the system and those who did were not much encouraged by Bloomsbury House .
4 Another segment displayed the night side of planet Karkason : a swell of blackness pricked with intermittent little red pimples which were the mouths of its active volcanos — those , at least , which were not currently cloaked by smoke
5 The ancestral obligations of Gascon nobles , recorded in the Recognicionesfeodorum , were not only strengthened by Edward I 's Gascon visits of 1273–4 and 1286–9 .
6 I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society .
7 There can be no doubt that in the early years of the twentieth century the use of revolvers was widespread among adult mobsters in London 's criminal underworld , and that feuds between rival outfits were not uncommonly settled by gun battles in the open streets .
8 Many of the techniques that came to be associated with variable analysis , the survey , cross-tabulation , indicators , covariation , to mention but a few , were not all invented by Lazarsfeld and his co-workers , though a number were , but begged , borrowed and stolen , from a variety of other fields and brought together as a distinctive and integrated way of constituting a theoretically informed and theoretically consequential empirical social research approach .
9 To demonstrate a sensitive period of the type he was proposing , it would be necessary to show that adults who had left a kibbutz at the age of six were not sexually attracted by members of the opposite sex whom they had been reared with while still in the kibbutz .
10 Unlike the case in earlier phases of the war , the German people were not systematically prepared by propaganda for the opening of the war against the Soviet Union .
11 These rates were not significantly affected by subdivision of the diet group into those who achieved a high fibre score from mainly non-bran sources ( n=7 ) and those who were compliant in taking bran supplements ( 31.4 ( 18.6 ) % v 49.4 ( 13.9 ) % respectively by LTA at 42 months : NS ) .
12 In a similar study , Lawani & Bayer found that 14% of the highly rated papers in their study of cancer research were not highly rated by peers , and that only 2.3% of their highly rated papers were never cited .
13 Last year , a couple of their events were not fully covered by sponsorship income and it is doubtful whether Mark McCormack will want to add to the £2million or so he has already poured in .
14 Clare 's bitter words , however , were not fully understood by Tess .
15 They were n't particularly bothered by telltale wrinkles .
16 You were n't so bound by rules , legislation , case law or anything like that .
17 The fact is , Harry , it simply would n't work and , if you were n't so blinded by love , you 'd see it for yourself .
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