Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 2 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 3 | They were not kept in suspense for more than five minutes . |
| 4 | Despite a long tradition of education , there is still a lack of qualified teachers : in 1986 almost 400 teaching posts were not filled for lack of trained applicants . |
| 5 | This was to the advantage of the young radicals ; like the leftists in the NILP , they were not hampered by tradition and did not have to placate their seniors before or after embracing heresy . |
| 6 | Valiant attempts were made to develop a humane and worthwhile schooling for the majority who were not selected into grammar schools by the sophisticated operation of an eleven-plus examination . |
| 7 | It could be argued convincingly , for instance , that the nature conservation interest ( perhaps also the landscape appeal ) would be increased considerably if large expanses of the uplands were not exploited for agriculture ( nor forestry ) . |
| 8 | Many potential customers might feel more comfortable where agencies were not aiming at supervision of their minds . |
| 9 | The notices cluster along main streets and around candidates ' homes , and analysis suggests they were not posted at whim , but organised by the candidates . |
| 10 | The explanation may be that the figurines were not intended for use as ornaments but were votives to he left in shrines : they had a symbolic , not an aesthetic , role to play . |
| 11 | Overall , little more than half of them were serious candidates put up by Fianna Fail , Fine Gael , Labour and the Progressive Democrats , and on the ballot paper they were not listed for convenience of identification in party groups ; the other candidates were outsiders . |
| 12 | But let me return to the question that is of genuine interest , this question we so enjoyed debating when our evenings were not spoilt by chatter from those who lacked any fundamental understanding of the profession ; that is to say , the question ‘ what is a great butler ’ ? |
| 13 | Most respondents ( 76% ) relied on their own medical adviser to agree the protocols for purposes of payment , but only 49% of the people making these decisions had any expertise in asthma care ; 15% relied on individuals who were not trained in medicine or nursing . |
| 14 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 15 | The closed blades were not smeared with blood , and nothing about the scissors screamed out that they had taken a human life . |
| 16 | Animals who underwent proximal enterectomy alone demonstrated acinar cell degranulation typical of the response of raised CCK levels , but these changes were not seen after treatment with antagonist . |
| 17 | So the Court of Appeal held that the acts were not done in furtherance of a trade dispute . |
| 18 | Both were essentially concerned with the expansion of adult educational opportunities irrespective of the providing body , a cause in which both were legitimately involved as their duties were not prescribed in detail . |
| 19 | It is likely that these poems were not sent for publication until Edwards and Richardson decided on a second volume . |
| 20 | ‘ But you were not sent into exile , or to work in the mines ? ’ |
| 21 | The papers were not sent by post , but by private messengers , who were termed Sherborne men … |
| 22 | For the 10 case children who were not born in maternity units within the study area ( eight were born at home and two in hospitals in adjacent health authorities ) the place in the register where the birth would have been entered was located and controls were chosen as above . |
| 23 | ‘ She has all the best of me without my bad side , and if she were yours , it would almost seem as if we were not separated by death . |
| 24 | Accordingly it became a relatively more important cause of death than scarlet fever , which declined fast from the 1860s ( the two diseases have some symptoms in common and were not separated in death certification until 1858 ) . |
| 25 | Its policies were not tested by debate in the open political arena , but by private discussion among officials , and by public elucidation and explanation throughout the party membership and beyond . |
| 26 | Contrary to left-wing and anti-fascist claims , the police at the highest levels were not biased in favour of fascism , even if there were problems of interpretation of the law in developing conflict situations at the street level amongst the junior ranks and local magistrates treated anti-fascists more harshly than fascists . |
| 27 | The daily temperatures were not related to exposure of the vaccines to temperatures >10°C . |
| 28 | Hyperkalaemia ( χ 2 =0.18 , df=1 , p<0.75 ) , degree of acidosis ( χ 2 =2.05 , df=1 , p<0.25 ) , and the presence of anaemia ( haemoglobin concentration <110 g/l ; χ 2 =0.79 , df=1 , p<0.5 ) were not related to survival . |
| 29 | However , positive school experiences were not related to outcome among the comparison sample . |
| 30 | Conversely , OPCS recorded that 68 admissions were not related to alcohol and review of notes showed that only 38 ( 35% ) admissions fell into this category . |