Example sentences of "[was/were] not [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apostles were not given a priestly role by Jesus and he left no instructions about how the Church was to be organized . |
| 2 | DURING the 1992 general election the people of the United Kingdom were not given a proper chance to make a decision about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 3 | ‘ It was to protect this operation that the press were not given a full briefing when the recent doping allegations were made . |
| 4 | Patients with little or no residual intraluminal tumour and a good lumen ( implying minimal risk of obstruction ) were not given a further follow up appointment . |
| 5 | There are proposals to link Valmorel 's skiing area to the Three Valleys , although we were n't given a definite timescale . |
| 6 | There was no W , since it was not reckoned a proper letter in its own right , but only a double U , which is how we pronounce it . |
| 7 | This is why graphology was not given a separate heading in our checklist of stylistic features in 3.1 ; it was understood that such features , where of stylistic interest , would be noted under the heading of foregrounding . |
| 8 | Although the Koons ' work is also being shown in Strange Developments , Sherman 's work was not given a similar position of prominence , nor even hung in the same location as Koons ' , as if the exhibition organisers were emphatically hoping to avoid any challenging comparisons . |
| 9 | KATAHDIN : Unplaced behind Triomphe Modest over 6 furlongs at Nottingham on Tuesday , but this colt was not given a punishing race when running on very well to finish only a few lengths off the winner . |
| 10 | Mrs Piggott 's BUSTED ROCK was not given a hard race when 14½l sixth to Satin Lover at Ascot and is open to plenty of improvement . |
| 11 | He was not given a medical examination after he lodged his complaint ; however , he still bore scars from the torture one year after his arrest . |
| 12 | He claimed he was not given a fair hearing . |
| 13 | Adoption was not made a legal procedure until 1926 . |
| 14 | Yosemite followed in 1890 , but one of the wonders of the natural world remained fairly remote from the public until the turn of the century — the Grand Canyon was not made a National Park until 1906 . |
| 15 | The church probably held some two hundred people but was not used a great deal in the 1920's . |
| 16 | The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’ |
| 17 | In the other areas soil was not considered a major limiting factor . |
| 18 | Before Windows 3.1 , Windows was not considered a solid enough environment to allow that to happen , and all the information processing was limited to the server . |
| 19 | Sigmoidoscopy was not considered a necessary part of the investigation in the absence of a recent change in bowel habit , observed rectal bleeding , or an abnormality on digital rectal examination . |
| 20 | Although a clash with the USSR was not considered a serious possibility until the late 1950s at the earliest , the British defence chiefs were arguing from April 1946 that the West 's ultimate aim should be to make a successful stand against a Soviet offensive as far to the east in Europe as practicable . |
| 21 | When Mr Stroud met the family , on Monday , he said the bear was not considered a Christian symbol . |