Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Serbs were not consulted about the terms of Article VIII of the Treaty , which stated : |
| 2 | No pupils refused to participate in the study , and as pupils were not warned about the administration of the survey we assumed that those registered pupils who did not complete the survey were either absent or had left the school . |
| 3 | A fingerprint was found — but she was told it could not be used as evidence and other officers were not questioned about it , she told an industrial tribunal . |
| 4 | ‘ You were not thinking about her last night , petite , ’ he taunted . |
| 5 | ‘ You were not thinking about your lawyer friend either . ’ |
| 6 | Women who had elective caesarean sections ( before starting labour ) were not asked about other procedures . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lakeside were not petitioned about this issue , whereas Shakespeare Road , Ruskin Road , Wordsworth Road , Chaucer Road , and Tennyson Gardens were . |
| 9 | One angry passenger claimed travellers were not told about the bomb warning . |
| 10 | Oh yeah but were not talking about . |
| 11 | Well , when , when it comes to talking about er transport in a rural area and , and talking about transport in the Western Isles , er were not talking about buses or trains , were talking about ferries and , and planes and you just wonder when you hear some of the statistics erm from these companies just what sort of service they are at providing to local people , where your talking about ferries at arriving in , in port at half past eleven to half past twelve at night , that 's not a service for local people , I mean you hear about British Airways increasing their domestic fares to er , by seven per cent as of the beginning of April er you just have to ask is this a service been put up provided for er local people , and it just is n't . |
| 12 | When the young men , released from silence , were not talking about ‘ shows ’ in London — which , as their only excursion into permissiveness held out vistas of slightly forbidden enjoyments — they commented with a kind of awe on the ardour of devotion which Eliot was Seen to display at Mass . |
| 13 | The thing , two things that struck me about it , one of which is that we were not talking about a separate soundtrack , the actual existing soundtrack of the film is merged with the audio description |
| 14 | I 'd be intrigued to know what those other two couples who were not informed about the cancelled christening feels . |
| 15 | Probably because most of us were n't really , well , quite a few of us anyway were n't thinking about sex at that time , so I suppose it was kind of you know , you just started |
| 16 | But we were n't thinking about having professional people in our group — we might have a few to help us out but we 'll pick our own . ’ |
| 17 | And we were n't thinking about how many one ate , we were thinking about how many six ate . |
| 18 | Rather than being concerned with the minor details being elaborated into a more complex picture , they were just interested in how we come to group erm features together for want of a although they were n't thinking about them as features . |
| 19 | Er , but I do believe that made very important the reason , er , the first question is and people were n't reading about that . |
| 20 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 21 | And locals here certainly were n't complaining about their neighbours music . |
| 22 | That was my original they had a competition to look out for people who 've got ideas about this new idea , it was a ridiculous idea to do a competition cos people did n't know what they were entering for , half the parishes were n't notified about it , |
| 23 | Only thing she were n't chuffed about is she could n't cash cheque , it had to go all through bank and everything . |
| 24 | The Orkney parents were n't told about any complaints procedures either . |
| 25 | The guards had always said that they were n't bothered about anyone in British gaols , so we 'd hoped it would be easier for us to get out than for the others . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you said you were n't bothered about falling in the water ? ’ |
| 27 | their high tea , were n't bothered about high tea , but still , er then , they 'd have , they might have a supper because she ai n't been a work , their elderly , they perhaps have a good tea , the they , they went to bed at nine and they said if I was reading something , they said , you know turn the gas out when you come up and , there you are well you can see , if one landlady gave me egg for me lunch that I had n't had , they not , they were n't gon na feed you up at supper time were they ? |
| 28 | they were n't bothered about all this |
| 29 | Sorry , September and really they were n't bothered about selling at that time although they always said if the right offer comes along |
| 30 | But we were n't talking about the motor industry and the never-ending management-union saga . |