Example sentences of "were not [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were all the Barclaycard customers who were not using the credit facility so they did n't want to pay the annual fee . |
| 2 | The result of the CAFU experiment was that the cockpit conversation between the flight crew when they were not using the intercom was crystal clear . |
| 3 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 4 | The-CAB door may have been officially ‘ open ’ but minorities were not accepting the invitation , It was felt that the way to remedy the situation was by recruiting more black advice workers so that black clients would feel more comfortable and so that black workers could help white workers to better understand black clients . |
| 5 | At present , six children are killed and 400 hurt in a year in crashes because they were not wearing a restraint . |
| 6 | In spite of legislation which makes seat belt wearing compulsory , it is a matter of concern that 45% of the car passenger casualties in this age group were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident . |
| 7 | And the Dallams were not expecting the Nation to pay for Tristan . |
| 8 | How wise we were not to allow the Europeans to extend their competence to other areas . |
| 9 | The two most important items of Randi 's advice were not to allow the subjects to run the tests , and not to allow capricious distractions . |
| 10 | Housing authorities were not considering the needs of disabled people in their dealings with private developers and housing associations . |
| 11 | In the second round 50 per cent would be sufficient , but if this were not achieved the process would be repeated with new candidates . |
| 12 | He would leave the packet open so that the desk sergeant saw they were not getting a parcel bomb . |
| 13 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 14 | In competition for new investment , hotels and ferries came way behind the main business and these two potentially successful concerns were not getting the management or main board attention they deserved . |
| 15 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 16 | A delegation of the residents complained that they were not getting the priority in rehousing which had been promised them and demanded to know whether or not they would be moved before the winter . |
| 17 | They were not taking the hero for granted , but missing him madly and praying that he would be fit to return for the Davis Cup . |
| 18 | So the results for the sales strategy are remarkably similar to the results for the output strategy : the subjects were not taking the time ( the period ) into account on the first repetition — as they should have been — but there were on the second repetition . |
| 19 | However , there were attempts at a private member 's bill : the Rape ( Anonymity of Victims ) Bill was introduced by Mr F.P. Crowder , and there was another in 1975 by Jack Ashley , stemming from concern that raped women were not reporting the crime because of fear of press publicity . |
| 20 | They were all expected to send money home to their mothers but were not taught the value of saving for their own futures . |
| 21 | He says that the police were not chasing the car , but they had spotted that it was stolen . |
| 22 | But Alan Smith , Test and County Cricket Board chief executive , was quick to make it clear that the governing body were not accusing the tourists of any malpractice with the ball . |
| 23 | We were not filling the marina with the steel band jollity of Yellow Bird , nor were any of us in our matching blue and white uniforms , for this was not a usual charter , and none of us were at Rickie or Robin-Anne Crowninshield 's beck and call . |
| 24 | Then I persuaded Vernon Hunt , who was Chief Inspector at that time , of the desirability of publishing information about those accidents on which £e had a great deal of information but which were not made the subject of a formal investigation . |
| 25 | It should be remembered , however , that the results of this project were obtained from 4th year pupils , not the 5th year , and that the schools involved were not operating a GCSE curriculum . |
| 26 | The defendants had previously sent the shop manager a letter instructing him that these shoes were not to leave the shop without the label first being removed . |
| 27 | A new generation of nobles who were not to taste the sweetness of military success and knew only at second hand of the prestige and profits gained in the 1340s and 1350s led the opposition to the court in the last years of Edward III 's reign and during the reign of Richard II . |
| 28 | The evangelical movement within the Church of England , from the royal proclamation of 1787 issued at the instigation of William Wilberforce , aimed at stirring up the vigilant suppression of " vice " and attacked pastimes even when they were not breaking the sabbath . |
| 29 | Police said they were not naming the children 's mother , who said later : ‘ I 'm still in shock . |
| 30 | I kept it up until I was certain you were not hearing a word . |