Example sentences of "[was/were] not make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er if they were if they were n't making a reasonable amount you know , eight and a half per cent , ten and a half on some of them . |
| 2 | Adoption was not made a legal procedure until 1926 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Abbey Life claimed it was not making a political statement or dealing in anti-Labour propaganda . |
| 5 | In expressing the view that he felt he was n't making a large contribution to the activities of the Commission , he also requested some guidance on what his role should be or what view the Commission had about his role . |
| 6 | I was n't making a conscious attempt to write an Indian War and Peace at all . ’ |