Example sentences of "were not [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While partnerships are part of our industry 's culture , we were not even scratching the surface of the benefits that could come from taking traditional relationships many steps further , ’ he said . |
| 2 | At the start of the study 70 patients in the control group and 74 in the prompted group were not currently attending a hospital eye clinic . |
| 3 | If workers were spending their time in this way , they were not only exercising a leisure preference but were consuming a non-essential . |
| 4 | So those gentlemen were not only infringing the Sale of Goods Act they were committing a criminal offence as well by infringing the Trade Descriptions Act so they ended up being prosecuted by Trading Standards . |
| 5 | Girls were sometimes called apprentices , more often simply " learners " : indicating that they were not really acquiring a skill , just " learning on the job " , which was the standard training for most semi-skilled occupations . |
| 6 | Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference ; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness . |
| 7 | They were n't just humming a chorus of ‘ North Sea Sunrise ’ , the jazz tribute to the industry which the Norwegian contractor Kvaerner commissioned for its reception at Aberdeen 's Beach Ballroom . |