Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [adj] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was not prepared to use my own savings to pay for that , ’ John said . |
| 2 | He was not able to deduce what these purposes might be , but the persistence of a third sector suggested they must exist . |
| 3 | He was not able to do it all by himself , of course , but he assumed the responsibility , arranged the shipment and testing , recruited consultants ( from among retired engineers ) and certified the work . |
| 4 | Since London was not able to accommodate its own natural increase , it meant that the whole of the 3.5 million population growth had to be found elsewhere — a population increase of well over a third for the area outside London . |
| 5 | She was n't pleased to see him any more . |
| 6 | He was n't obliged to follow his own scenario any more , but he knew he would have to obey the voice now . |
| 7 | There were such reams of documents that it simply was n't possible to read them all . |
| 8 | He was n't supposed to give me any objections |
| 9 | As the opening production was Gypsy Baron , where Ingrid was taking the lead and Therese had to play the role of an eighteen-year-old village maiden , it was n't hard to guess what most of the jokes were about . |