Example sentences of "[was/were] not [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1940s Otto J. Schmidt said that the planets were not created out of spun-off solar material but were ‘ captured ’ by the Sun from clouds of space dust . |
| 2 | Would she ever have any memories that were not bound up with Fen ? |
| 3 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 4 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 5 | Where reefs are notably wider than the average it may be assumed that there the corals were not killed off during the Pleistocene . |
| 6 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 7 | They were not locked in with it , of course they were not . |
| 8 | In group F were to be found young children ( average age about 10 ) who sat , when they were not moved off by the police , on the wall in the front of the terrace , overlooking the dry moat . |
| 9 | Mr Lamont claimed , in an optimistic message to the nation , that the ‘ self-denigrating myths ’ of Britain 's decline as an industrial nation were not borne out by the truth . |
| 10 | Unfortunately the predictions of this very simple hypothesis were not borne out by the facts of subsequent experience . |
| 11 | Louis XIV had seen in the last days of his reign the growing pointlessness of the traditional Franco-Austrian antagonism , but his efforts to achieve some agreement with the Habsburgs were not followed up by his successors . |
| 12 | After washing , twist taps were not turned off with the paper towel ; and where elbow taps were available , they were used properly only four times ; and when disposing of the paper towel in foot-operated pedal bins , nurses used their hands to open and close the bins . |
| 13 | For the first six years , it will give an additional 2 per cent if you were not contracted out of SERPS already . |
| 14 | When they were not put off by Marcus 's rigid unfocussed stare . |
| 15 | Mr Kinnock argued that most pay structures were not worked out by reference to the lowest-paid . |
| 16 | ’ The great organisations of the masses … in the past were not worked out by any theoretical elite or vanguard … the new organisations will come as Lilburnes Leveller Party came , as the sections and popular societies of Paris in 1793 , as the Commune in 1871 and the Soviets in 1905 , with not a single soul having any concrete ideas about them until they appeared in all their power and glory ’ . |
| 17 | Provided you were not ground down by illness or poverty . |
| 18 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me told that if things were not sorted out by tomorrow , the company would cease trading and I do really fear that this is the end . |
| 19 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me if things were not sorted out by tomorrow the company would cease trading and I do really fear this is the end . |
| 20 | He said the next government , whatever its colour , must make attempts to improve the legal system so that youngsters were not allowed out on bail to commit more offences . |
| 21 | The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it . |
| 22 | While accepting in principle the need to delegate , her inner fury , not always expressed , if something were not carried out to her wishes , was great . |
| 23 | Similarly , interviews with pupils are included but were not carried out on a systematic basis and the results have not been correlated with pupils ' GT4 scores . |
| 24 | Thus , we would undoubtedly feel less happy if political polls were not carried out by independent agencies . |
| 25 | Lord Taylor said the assaults on Donna King aged twenty six were not carried out in rage , they were coolly deliberate and inflicted by way of punishment . |
| 26 | During debates in the House , the offending Mapplethorpe photographs were not brought on to the floor lest they offend the ‘ decorum ’ of the House . |
| 27 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 28 | Smith claimed that , although Coleman invited medical men to attend the College with the promise of an early diploma , these educated people were not looked on with favour , for they were able to see through Coleman 's ‘ shallow and fatuous system ’ . |
| 29 | There was thirteen years difference between my elder sister and youngest brother — two girls and then three boys , of whom Basil was the eldest — and though this arrangement was not ideal when we came of an age to meet husbands among our brothers ' friends , it did mean that we all got along very well together and as sisters were not looked down upon by older and superior male beings as I often saw happen in other families . |
| 30 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |