Example sentences of "[adv] were not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 2 | Patients with hyperplastic polyps only were not accepted for enrollment . |
| 3 | But the first two pairs were on adjacent lanes three and four and so were not affected by any inequality in the lanes . |
| 4 | The morning rehearsals each day were a Tiller rule not demanded by the management and so were not paid for . |
| 5 | The social democrats generally were not isolated from these changes . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | I think this is a deal that could have been done ; we just were n't getting to the finishing line quickly enough . |
| 8 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 9 | The argument was that in this instance , the police were under no obligation to assist a person to eject a trespasser from his premises , and hence were not acting in the execution of their duty when the constable was assaulted . |
| 10 | Sh when er when Emma told me that erm Richard said that they probably were n't going to Tramps I was , I was walking around going oh boo hoo boo hoo I 'm so sad all the time going oh boo hoo boo hoo |
| 11 | These concerns clearly were not shared by Mrs Thatcher who welcomed the announcement of the second phase of the Washington development in September 1986 : ‘ This is good news for the North East and for Britain and makes Nissan a fully-fledged UK car manufacturer and a major exporter . ’ |
| 12 | Er so that was a market place that we really were n't tapping from this region , they have been tapping into London . |
| 13 | Those coming locally were n't expected until eight o'clock . |
| 14 | Thus fewer US vessels were responsible for killing an increasing number of dolphins between 1983 and 1986 , while boats sold abroad were not affected by the imposition of dolphin kill quotas . |
| 15 | The representatives from abroad were not expected for a further two or three days , but the three gentlemen referred to by his lordship as his ‘ home team ’ — two Foreign Office ministers attending very much ‘ off the record ’ and Sir David Cardinal — had come early to prepare the ground as thoroughly as possible . |
| 16 | Even the trained nurses who have gone out there were n't prepared for what they saw . |
| 17 | Maps however were not published till 1884/85 and JTR makes reference to the use of guides for mountain walkers . |
| 18 | I could understand that and was delighted when I saw people realising that we most certainly were not steeped in Factory greyness . ’ |
| 19 | They certainly were n't speaking on behalf of the company and appear to be , frankly , incomprehensible ramblings . |
| 20 | And locals here certainly were n't complaining about their neighbours music . |
| 21 | ‘ We certainly were n't intimidated by Torquay and I do n't think it will happen against Hereford either . ’ |
| 22 | And that time we saw him he said he definitely were n't going on that holiday . |