Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Inter-word boundary effects were not implemented for the first prototype .
2 Some panel members believed that decisions taken by the Children 's Panel were not implemented by the Social Work Department , and therefore threatened the independence and integrity of the Panel .
3 You came into the chamber , you were not looking for an almost invisible line of thread running from your bed underneath the door .
4 We were we were not looking for an exception to policy E two we were looking for a policy which complements erm I five .
5 And Tory arguments that the tax would make companies uncompetitive were not looking at the whole picture .
6 Brightly-coloured uniforms and gleaming breastplates were not kept for the parade ground , but were meant to be worn in battle .
7 Moreover , Zuwaya and Magharba thought that their larger groupings were temporary : activated to demand compensation , they then relapsed into the noumenon , leaving households to go about their business ; revenues from taxes were not kept in a fisc , but allocated to household budgets — and so on .
8 It was held that as he had only paid to avoid seizure of his goods and never voluntarily nor intending to give up his rights to the sums paid nor to close the transactions , he was entitled to recover those payments which were not barred by the Statute of Limitation .
9 Once upon time , a Royal Banker of elevated rank noticed as he drove to the City on the morning of the Queen Mum 's birthday that the flags were not flying on the most relevant of our buildings .
10 It was October before negotiations reached any resolution and the troops were not withdrawn until the end of the year .
11 Tensions were not eased by the grudging spirit in which toleration had been granted .
12 It looks as if the two books were not conceived as a single entity although they interrelate in the way that Hilton picks up and elaborates aspects of the subject of Scale 1 in Scale 2 .
13 The 1900 Olympics were not ratified by the IOC until 1912 ( ironically the year of the ill-fated Triangular Tournament , first-class cricket 's first attempt at an international tournament ) .
14 A central committee advisory board was created to accommodate three " old guard " revolutionaries who were not re-elected to the political bureau , namely Souphanouvong , Phoumi Vongvichit and Sisomphone Lovansay .
15 These were not understood by the workers and the management on the floor , and indeed should never have been put into operation .
16 The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists .
17 As Jones comments , ‘ possible variables such as the rate of development of community services , the aging of the population , economic uncertainty , and the limits of public tolerance , were mentioned , but were not weighted into the predictions ’ .
18 Fellows seems to have acted in the sale of the Grand Union to the Grand Junction , for in a letter to the Grand Union he pointed out that the price would have to be realistic , bearing in mind that they were not dealing with a willing purchaser .
19 To remind them that their rule was derived from God himself , and that they were neither creators nor rulers by right , God forbade them only one thing : they were not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil ; such a mysterious gnosis belonged to God alone .
20 Toys were not manufactured during the war , at least not for the home market .
21 During the years immediately preceding this meeting AIB had been involved in a number of foreign investigations conducted abroad concerning foreign registered aircraft that were not manufactured in the UK .
22 Q. Is there any comeback in law is a horse reveals faults which were not declared by the previous owner at the time of the sale ?
23 When it became possible to study the German foreign office records after 1945 , says an American scholar , ‘ tests did not reveal essential documents … that were not printed by the editors of Die grosse Politia , [ but ] they did reveal that the editors , in making their selection , were influenced by a desire not to make the task of the rulers of the Weimar Republic more difficult , and not to injure the reputation of foreign statesmen who were still active after World War I and who were sympathetic to Germany ’ .
24 Calls for democracy along western lines with a multi-party system , free choice of candidates and free elections were not tolerated by the old party leaders , Who clung to centralised ‘ socialist democracy ’ .
25 The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth .
26 The Trust adds : ‘ The immense work done by the three principal participants , Simon Pepper ( WWF ) , John Hunt ( RSPB ) and Nigel Hawkins ( JMMT ) and the crucial role played by Chris Brasher has to be acknowledged and we can only regret that their efforts were not rewarded with a more positive outcome . ’
27 But these deaths were not caused by an avenging spirit from beneath the sunset .
28 ‘ The bad effects of island driving on the long sentences were not caused by an increase in the number of false alarm seeds .
29 They were not caused by the coming of de Gaulle : that merely served to crystallise them .
30 The difficulties associated with the introduction of the community charge were not caused by the time taken for the Bill to pass through the House , but by the fact that a large number of regulations relating to the charge were passed close to its introduction .
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