Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly it became a relatively more important cause of death than scarlet fever , which declined fast from the 1860s ( the two diseases have some symptoms in common and were not separated in death certification until 1858 ) . |
| 2 | McClellan carried out his original experiments in logistics during the period 1950–65 , but the results were not encapsulated in book form until the appearance of The logistics of a public library bookstock in 1978 . |
| 3 | Further , the presence of these hypersensitive sites is appropriately regulated and these sites are found only in those tissues which normally express class II MHC , as DH sites corresponding to the Ea transgene were not detected in brain tissue isolated from Long 12 transgenics ( data not shown ) . |
| 4 | I could understand that and was delighted when I saw people realising that we most certainly were not steeped in Factory greyness . ’ |
| 5 | The Guild members were not asked about birth control in the questionnaire that elicited these letters , so it is all the more surprising that twenty women volunteered the information that they either used or approved of contraception . |
| 6 | With one exception previous studies of acute renal failure were renal unit based and did not include those patients who were not referred for specialist opinion . |
| 7 | He suggested that these came from samples produced by " bandwagon jumpers " who were not complying with Soil Association regulations . |
| 8 | They were not deterred by air action . |
| 9 | One way was to synthesize compounds which had all the useful properties of 6-MP but were not attacked by xanthine oxidase : this was achieved with the synthesis of a substance later named azathioprine . |
| 10 | Pools of water , presumably derived from this source , were observed on the upper parts of the beach and were not saturated with calcium carbonate . |
| 11 | Before the Second World War , there were , apart from those from the Royal Humane Society and Society for the Protection of Life from Fire , no appropriate awards that could be given to civilians who had performed outstanding or exceptional deeds of bravery ( the George Cross and George Medal were not instituted until World War II ) . |
| 12 | Of the 36 patients who were alive at the end of the study period and who were not considered for liver transplant , 26 had alcoholic liver disease ( 25 not abstinent , one abstinent , but with ischaemic heart disease ) and three had primary biliary cirrhosis ( in two of these advanced disease was manifest but one had additional psychiatric disease and one advanced cardiopulmonary disease ) . |
| 13 | The letter concludes : ’ We feel that this situation would not have arisen if ERCs were not included in health authority budgets . |
| 14 | Contests over perquisites were not confined to textile manufacture . |
| 15 | Articles 85 and 86 were designed to attack anti-competitive agreements and abusive monopolisation and were not drafted with merger control in mind . |
| 16 | Their achievements , such as wage rises and the setting of minimum wage levels , were not won through class struggle , but received as favours from local government in the expectation of their political support in return . |
| 17 | We were n't clad in PT kit but in woollen pullovers and regulation slacks and it seemed unlikely that anything violent was imminent . |