Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , Macbeth did not murder Duncan in his palace of Cawdor in Nairn , since the castle there was not built until the fourteenth century ; and Duncan was not the pitiable old greybeard portrayed in the play but a ruthless and ambitious man regarded by many as a usurper . |
| 2 | The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War . |
| 3 | Oldham 's superiority was not confirmed until the 80th minute when Sharp completed his first treble since his summer move from Everton : Chamberlain blocked Ritchie 's effort , and the Scot pounced on the rebound . |
| 4 | The emergency staff had realised at 5 a.m. on Thursday 7 July that dialysis patients were at special risk from the aluminium , but the house of Robert Hill , a local man with kidney failure and a dialysis machine , was not contacted until the next day . |
| 5 | Adjuvant therapy was not given to the first 44 successfully treated patients . |
| 6 | Interest in the nature of society was not lacking in the sixteenth century , and in one way or another commentators found a good deal to say about it . |
| 7 | This was not maintained after a second night , and after the third night without sleep subjects provided with these incentives could perform no better than those not provided with incentives . |
| 8 | These develop into tiny animals so unlike their parents that the connection between adults and offspring was not recognised until the last century . |
| 9 | The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation . |
| 10 | The west doorway , richly decorated with sculptured figures , is in late Gothic style , but was not constructed till the seventeenth century . |
| 11 | Payment of income support is related to pension payment days , and she was not remunerated for the first five days of the elderly person 's occupation . |
| 12 | The urinary catheter was not removed until the fourth day when Mr Reynolds was able to walk to the toilet with the help of the nurse . |
| 13 | Monitoring of his circulatory state via the central venous pressure line was not required after the first 24 hours and the line was therefore removed . |
| 14 | His request was not complied with , and the Hearing was not convened on the first lawful day after the children 's removal . |
| 15 | However , it was not used in the Second World War , nor in many other wars . |
| 16 | Inevitably , forecasters err on the side of optimism because it is always possible to keep whisky which remains unsold , but impossible to sell stock which was not produced in the first place . |
| 17 | In 1973 the tide turned with a 5-to-4 majority ruling by the Supreme Court in Miller v California that obscenity , as narrowly defined , was not protected by the First Amendment , and that each state could set its own standard : ‘ People in different States vary in their tastes and attitudes , and this diversity is not to be strangled by the absolutism of imposed uniformity . ’ |
| 18 | The lawyer told the court the injured party went to hospital where he was told his ear could have been sewn back on if he had brought it with him , but it was not found until the next day . |
| 19 | If , however , the suspect piece turned out to be an aluminium bronze ( as was recently the case with some coins purporting to be Anglo-Saxon ) , then one could reject it straight away because aluminium , and thus aluminium bronze , was not known before the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | It would be wrong to end without acknowledging that emigration from Ayrshire was not confined to the 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 21 | Well no , we got two in the sidelines , we got this Indian guy who was not coming for a second interview until we can say we 'll pay him |
| 22 | However , lapis from the region of Lake Baikal in Siberia does contain wollastonite , although this source was not worked until the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | There were other cases where the name of the rape survivor was not disclosed in the first press report but a few weeks later , the name would suddenly appear in front of several million readers . |
| 24 | What can you say about the game that was n't said in the last caption ? |
| 25 | Even even if he was n't accepted on a first occasion he 's probably had another two or three attempts elsewhere . |
| 26 | And when you the schools , the shops in that area , I 'm not only surprised it was n't considered in the first place , but secondly , it is the key to the whole scheme and er although I 'm quite happy to move the erm recommendation , I must say that I have a very very deep concern regarding Road . |
| 27 | I 'd promised myself then and there : I was n't going for a second appointment . |
| 28 | ‘ We only found out Peter was n't coming at the last minute . |
| 29 | See we er we tried to get and it was about ten to twelve so I thought , I thought Carole was n't coming till the next bus so I 'd go down and pick her up . |