Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other multi-way trees were not implemented due to increase in search times ( e.g. B-trees , section 3.2.3.1 ) over the 26-way tree . |
| 2 | Before we start Scottish questions , I remind Members from Scottish constituencies that , as is my practice , I shall seek to call those who were not called last time and give them some preference . |
| 3 | There were some differences between the groups , mainly in the recognition of black speakers who were not using Creole features of syntax or segmental phonology . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , four out of five of them were not using any form of birth control . |
| 5 | Indeed his fellows were not to see that cadet again . |
| 6 | On the night of 30 January they were not to reach this sought-after retreat without problems , for they had first to call at the Palace of Saint Cloud itself where on arrival they found the entire Imperial Household drawn up to receive them and , equally clearly , determined to stay to dinner . |
| 7 | They were not to serve two masters . |
| 8 | Most firms in most industries were not facing disastrous losses , nor even the prospect of disastrous losses . |
| 9 | Because they were not enacting any kind of simulation of hospital life , the exercise could be described as INDIRECT . |
| 10 | Weekend press comment about the fragility of the recovery meant they were not expecting good news . |
| 11 | Kintsch and Bates ( 1977 ) tested students on their memory for classroom lectures several days after the lecture , when the students were not expecting such a test . |
| 12 | But since the RCM staff were not trained social workers , many undesirables slipped through the inspection net , including quite a few whose only interest was in acquiring cheap household labour . |
| 13 | Even the historical travelogues , with their resource to tap existing stocks of costumes and sets , were not proving that great as money savers . |
| 14 | The Princes in the Tower were not seen alive in public again and Gloucester became King Richard III . |
| 15 | In the 1546 patients managed exclusively by the general practitioner in whom details of maintenance treatment before and after the attack were supplied , 349 ( 23% ) had been receiving no treatment ( step 0 ) before the attack , and 51 ( 15% ) of these were not prescribed any maintenance treatment after their attack . |
| 16 | When it became apparent that learners were not mastering grammatical structures by this method , pattern practice was introduced , and with the advent of language learning laboratories , the student spent much of his time listening to and mechanically repeating drills . |
| 17 | Had he not , through the magnetic influence he was able to exert even over those of his own race , personally seen to it at the Peace Conference that these Arabs were not sent unrewarded away ? |
| 18 | It is possible that such people had minor enzyme deficiencies before their damaging exposure , but that these were not causing any symptoms at that stage . |
| 19 | To assess directly the differences between situations which were recalled and those which were not recalled each subject 's mean accident estimate and risk rating was calculated separately for situations which they recalled and those they did not . |
| 20 | The two technical lieutenants who had been attached to Rostov 's staff were providing a running commentary for those who were not placed adjacent to a viewport . |
| 21 | Crude oil and timber quotas , however , were not met due to " resource restriction " . |
| 22 | In the last century , the form of the right was that the police were not to ask any questions of a detained person . |
| 23 | But Terkel 's people were believable ; their views were not rendered harmonious in the interests of advancing a theory . |
| 24 | Landlords were not seeking any advantage in the regulations but merely wanted to ensure that the rental value of holdings was maintained . |
| 25 | Staff said that they felt more inclined to offer services if they were not assuming sole responsibility for an individual 's welfare but could ‘ share the burden ’ . |
| 26 | Ex-servicemen and their families were not getting any benefits from ‘ the war to end all wars ’ . |
| 27 | Willan Cyrus , prosecuting , told the court : ‘ In fact , customers were not getting any discount at all . ’ |
| 28 | Around 50,000 giant clams were bred on Orpheus Island in Queensland by scientists from James Cook University , and approximately 4,000 have been transported by the Royal Australian Navy as they were not getting enough sunlight and water circulation . |
| 29 | They were not taking any chances . |
| 30 | Funeral or no funeral they were not taking any chances . |