Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You came into the chamber , you were not looking for an almost invisible line of thread running from your bed underneath the door . |
| 2 | We were we were not looking for an exception to policy E two we were looking for a policy which complements erm I five . |
| 3 | And Tory arguments that the tax would make companies uncompetitive were not looking at the whole picture . |
| 4 | Once upon time , a Royal Banker of elevated rank noticed as he drove to the City on the morning of the Queen Mum 's birthday that the flags were not flying on the most relevant of our buildings . |
| 5 | Fellows seems to have acted in the sale of the Grand Union to the Grand Junction , for in a letter to the Grand Union he pointed out that the price would have to be realistic , bearing in mind that they were not dealing with a willing purchaser . |
| 6 | From the planet 's surface you might think there is an eastward force , but there is n't , and if you were not rotating with the planet then this would be obvious . |
| 7 | In pursuing their administrative and legislative strategies , the Reaganites were not fiddling at the margin or tinkering with the status quo . |
| 8 | Jimmy 's hands were not sinking into the concrete . |
| 9 | The millwrights and other inventors who were making these technical developments were not operating in a vacuum . |
| 10 | The showmen created an entertainment and annexed an audience in a spectacular initial burst , but , of course , they were not operating in a vacuum and there was one major hurdle that had to be overcome before their victory could be regarded as complete and of permanent rather than fleeting significance . |
| 11 | In a statement tonight , the Hunt said the hounds were not hunting at the time of incident and were not out of control . |
| 12 | In ex parte Norwich City Council , the local authority were not proceeding with the sale of council houses as expeditiously as the minister wished . |
| 13 | ( h ) Presenting another 's cheque : Wille , above , even though the bank had no mandate to honour the cheque , and Chan Man-sin v R , above , where the cheques were not binding on the company . |
| 14 | Between October and December when they were not competing in the Hamble Winter Series or jockeying against other IOR racers , the team was out everyday , practising manoeuvres aboard Oracle Arrow on a windward-leeward course at the mouth of the Hamble . |
| 15 | They appealed by way of case stated , submitting that the patient was not ‘ unlawfully at large ’ and the police officers were not entitled to use reasonable force to enter the premises and were not acting in the execution of their duty . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Consequently , it was argued , the police were not acting in the execution of their duty at the time of the arrests . |
| 18 | They were not opting for a particularly expensive scheme . |
| 19 | She noticed that several of the school parties were starting , tentatively to join up ; those of her own friends who were not suffering in the Ladies ' saloon were talking , intermittently , to a group of boys from a school in Birmingham . |
| 20 | Indeed , by the outbreak of World War II , there is considerable evidence that working class families were not responding to the call by the Royal Commission on Population and policy makers for larger families ( a result of anxiety regarding the dramatic decline in the birth rate during the 1930s ) . |
| 21 | The banks , threatened with the loss of many lucrative transactions ( and with expensive computer networks to maintain ) were not co-operating with the authorities , who talked of sending the police round to see that they did . |
| 22 | This report accepted that unemployment had risen within the LDDC from about 3,500 in 1981 to about 5,000 in 1986 ; that approximately eighty companies had been relocated out of the area through compulsory purchases implemented by the LDDC ; and that many locals were not gaining from the corporation 's activities . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | It said a lot for the captain himself that his team remained confident in themselves even when results were not going for the Scots . |
| 25 | The couple were not going to the palace of Saint Cloud , which would certainly not have provided an intimate setting for a honeymoon , but to a small house at Villeneuve l'Etang , which the Emperor had purchased himself . |
| 26 | This time , however , we were not going to the Consulate but driving straight to the border . |
| 27 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 28 | He said that if the Tories had policies that were not working for the Scottish economy then the silence of the SNP since last year 's general election told the real story of what independence for Scotland would really mean . |
| 29 | The Liberal Democrats were not working on the hypothesis that the phone would ring to ask them to join a coalition government . |
| 30 | If those men were not working on the gas I would go over there now , and I 'd switch the fire and I 'd leave it on . |