Example sentences of "were not [adv] [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since that time , it has become steadily more unbreakable , to the point where the courts were not even allowed to consider reports , written by Commissioners , on which legislation was based . |
| 2 | When they were not otherwise engaged performing Parsifal in the pit , Christoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony Orchestra were performing a programme of Chopin 's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky 's Fifth Symphony at their home , Jones Hall . |
| 3 | After the revolution , those authors who were not simply names to fill space on the badly produced jacket were usually sufficiently embarrassed to try to explain away their participation in the cult of Ceauşescu and thereby in lengthening his rule . |
| 4 | Furthermore , evidence was described to support their contention that the events were of formative importance , and were not merely serving to trigger depression in a woman who would shortly have become depressed anyway . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman 's synthetic protestations about unemployment would carry a little more conviction if he were not so determined to advance policies which , by introducing a national statutory minimum wage , by embracing the European Commission 's social action programme and by imposing a jobs tax on employers , would make unemployment far , far higher than it otherwise would be . |
| 6 | Leaders must use sound judgment and , if necessary , part from those who were inclined to involve them in disputes that were not only calculated to bring defeat but to weaken and endanger the position held at the present time " . |
| 7 | Did n't you know that these were not originally invented to wind yarn on to ? |
| 8 | Political parties were not formally authorized to field candidates in small constituencies in local elections . |