Example sentences of "were not [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 2 | Commissions in an expanding army might be made available without purchase , either to support the interest of Administration politicians or to stimulate recruiting and sometimes both , but rarely could they serve an opposition politician directly , although the fact that military commissions were not immediately under the control of the Government manager for Scotland permitted some indirect approaches by opposition members and their friends . |
| 3 | The children were not even at the back of the house away from the road . |
| 4 | The Barnet crisis dominated yesterday 's meeting although their problems were not even on the agenda . |
| 5 | Essential services like housing and transport were not even on the drawing board . |
| 6 | The two fresh contenders of greatest interest , if only because they were not even in the side when Scotland trounced Ireland at Murrayfield , are Peter Clohessy on the tight-head — a player who incurred the wrath of Australia 's Bob Dwyer but who was held to have made quite an impact on the Lions ' top brass versus Wales — and the young stand-off , Eric Ellwood . |
| 7 | Professor Rudé has shown that its members were not generally from the delinquent , vagrant or criminal poor and were often unfairly described as " a mob " . |
| 8 | The reformers were not merely considering the desire of actual rape victims to avoid publicity . |
| 9 | They were not out of the weather . |
| 10 | In January 1642 , Charles I foolishly entered the House of Commons seeking to arrest five leading Members of Parliament ( who were not there at the time ) and he received a magnificent rebuke from the Speaker of the House . |
| 11 | They were not along for the ride . |
| 12 | These patients were not necessarily under the care of the consultant with an interest in gastroenterology . |
| 13 | In many parts of the country , leading Tories were not far behind the Whigs in sending in loyal addresses deploring the threat which the rebellion posed to their religion and liberties . |
| 14 | They insisted their four colleges have a spirit which was ‘ practical rather than academical ’ although it was agreed that the 254 places provided in the colleges were not enough by the end of the century . |
| 15 | Although the local fishing waters were not directly by the oil spills , the director of the Bahrain fisheries institute , Jassem Ahmed al-Qaseer , said that the possibility that the deaths were in some way linked to pollution was high . |
| 16 | Tearful farewells , after a night on the toot , were not really on the cards . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , although Parliament had done little to exercise its authority over them during the Tudor period , customs duties were not fully under the Crown 's control . |
| 18 | He admits that in the Eighties the card took on some people who were not quite of the calibre of its existing client portfolio . |
| 19 | ‘ Ah , but these were n't — I mean , they were n't properly in the Prince 's harem . ’ |
| 20 | The golden boys , those who never give the bad news , who make sure that when the plant breaks down they are not available to inform anybody , and have made absolutely certain they were n't around during the run-up to such a disaster , are rewarded . |
| 21 | So what we would have been I mean it were n't just at the bottom of the street . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean you were n't here in the office block ? ’ |
| 23 | These are comments about young people which were spoken with a tenor of near hatred at a meeting of a council committee when young people were n't even on the agenda . |
| 24 | And suppose I did get through all they 'd say is it 's nothing to do with them they were n't even in the Company at that time — and how many of them were ? ’ |
| 25 | Poor old Fabian and Spilsbury were n't even in the running where Caitlin was concerned . |
| 26 | ‘ They were n't even around the kitchen . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't know you were n't there at the trials . ’ |
| 28 | They were n't out of the woods yet — far from it . |
| 29 | There 's not six men left , and all the cattle are away , for they were n't out at the shielings yet . |
| 30 | They certainly were n't anywhere on the Moon , or anywhere else I 've ever heard of , before or since . |