Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dave were not to take part in the cabal ( ‘ I 'm a member of the Party , but that 's all ’ ) , what was he doing later on that evening ? |
| 2 | In the general improvement of the clergy , canon 18 of the Fourth Lateran Council declared that henceforth clergy were not to take part in the pronouncement of the death penalty , to fight or duel , or to perform surgery which involved cutting or burning . |
| 3 | Government statistics show that the February 1993 seasonally unadjusted figure for unemployment in Scotland stood at 257,092 : 85,000 unemployed were not claiming benefit in the four weeks before the Government 's February figures , but were also seeking work , according to the Labour Force Survey . |
| 4 | Mr Perot , 61 , was not taking part in yesterday 's primaries in New York , Wisconsin and Kansas , but was in Europe drumming up business for his new investment and brokerage company . |
| 5 | I was glad that she was not taking part in the Mini Marathon though the Lantern Workshop looked fun . |
| 6 | What was different in October 1962 — and accounted for the drop in the " yes " vote and the bitterness of the debate — was that this time the referendum was not taking place in wartime . |
| 7 | The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case . |
| 8 | As far as I understood , I was n't taking part in a vendetta against the German race . ’ |