Example sentences of "[was/were] not [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now certain that Meehan and Griffiths were the murderers of Mrs Ross , the Crown Office in Edinburgh issued a statement that with Griffiths 's death and Meehan 's arrest , they were not looking for any other suspects in connection with the Ayr murder — thus , said Nicky , prejudging the very issue that was to come to trial . |
| 2 | But they were not looking at one point , as the worshippers did at the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' School ( Day Independent ) : they were moving up and down , backwards and forwards , bumping into each other and generally carrying on like people at Victoria Station during the rush hour . |
| 3 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 4 | Several times they fell painfully on jagged rocks , so that they learned to move exceedingly slowly , edging forward and feeling for a foothold , and all the time they could not know whether they were not wandering in aimless circles and approaching no nearer to the security of the forest . |
| 5 | These were not binding on all members of the ASC in the way that SSAPs were , nor did they require the approval of the councils of the six professional bodies . |
| 6 | If the syndicates running off their contracts were aware of the problems that were going to occur and did not inform Outhwaite , then they were not acting in utmost good faith . |
| 7 | Lithuanian and Armenian deputies were boycotting the Congress session , and Estonians and Latvians were not participating in some votes . |
| 8 | Those who were not participating in this type of research had to make do with walking in the oh so prolific Manchester rain , holding pillow-fighting competitions or otherwise bear the dreadful timetabled events . |
| 9 | Schools which were not thinking in such adventurous terms should easily be able to avoid ‘ a narrow and unproductive concentration ’ on the three core subjects of English , maths and science . |
| 10 | 1984 ) of 13135 children born in 1970 , found that one in ten five-year-olds were not living with both natural parents . |
| 11 | This might include shifting the burden of proof so that defendants have to satisfy the jury that they were sure they were not trading on illicit information . |
| 12 | Britain has reacted angrily when it felt other European governments were not co-operating in these efforts . |
| 13 | Even so , the jobs located in the cities were not going to inner-city residents but to people who lived in the leafy suburbs . |
| 14 | New jobs , particularly in financial and professional services were being created in the City and in Docklands but were not going to local residents . |
| 15 | We were not working to any specific set of criteria . ’ |
| 16 | If books were not selling in some shops , it was n't the fault of the publishers . ’ |
| 17 | We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! |
| 18 | However , the Court had also held in Case 362/90 , d'Urso , [ 1990 ] 1 ECR 4105 that a collective decision to contract out of the Directive was not binding on individual employees who wish subsequently to transfer . |
| 19 | There was a period when the Cabinet did not seem and , in fact , was not acting with collective responsibility , because one person was not playing as a member of a team . |
| 20 | Bowen C.J. held that the listing decision had not been taken under the treaty-making power , and that the Cabinet was not acting under any internationally binding obligation . |
| 21 | A person who harassed a neighbour with racist abuse would nevertheless have no defence that he was not acting in public if his words were , ( as he knew ) audible to the person next door . |
| 22 | Obviously he was not referring to obstetrical anaesthesia , in which controversy thrives . |
| 23 | Mr Gow made it clear that he was not referring to small men in any literal sense . |
| 24 | Because she was not moving at all , she developed a weeping wound in her leg one day , and the circulation collapsed to the extent that she nearly had to have the leg amputated . |
| 25 | He was not digging at all now but taking a breather , evidently . |
| 26 | But a new note has surfaced , a note which points out that while philosophical scepticism may have nourished and stimulated the mind of Greeks trained in civic religious observances , it was not nourishing to modern minds trained on nothing at all . |
| 27 | Harvard trainees , while waiting for dealing licences to be sent from the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , were given the job of establishing initial contact with persons whose names were Perfectly properly provided by Dun and Bradstreet , the American business information service , which was not dealing at all . |
| 28 | I was not dealing with that important overall view , which the hon. Gentleman also expressed at length yesterday . |
| 29 | Mr Hollins 's voice was still kind , but he was not budging at all . |
| 30 | Branson himself was assured by British officials that the government were wholly on his side , and that there would be ‘ an unholy row ’ if Virgin was not flying on 22 June . |