Example sentences of "were not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at length summoned for interview , during which I was told that the War Office wished to fill a post of Instructor-cum-British Adviser at the Staff College and Royal Military College , Baghdad , Iraq , and that in order to reassure the Iraqi High Command that they were not sending a British ‘ plant ’ ( for relations between the two countries were strained ) , they asked the British Council to fill it . |
| 2 | This eventuality was almost inevitable , given the independent , entrepreneurial spirit of Roche and many of the new consultants he appointed , who felt they were not receiving a fair share of the profits . |
| 3 | The schools lacked any concept of educational advancement and were not providing a popular education as the basis of a common citizenship nor as a matter of occupational utility . |
| 4 | The apostles were not given a priestly role by Jesus and he left no instructions about how the Church was to be organized . |
| 5 | DURING the 1992 general election the people of the United Kingdom were not given a proper chance to make a decision about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 6 | ‘ It was to protect this operation that the press were not given a full briefing when the recent doping allegations were made . |
| 7 | Patients with little or no residual intraluminal tumour and a good lumen ( implying minimal risk of obstruction ) were not given a further follow up appointment . |
| 8 | Thus , when John the Baptist and then Jesus spoke of the ‘ Kingdom of God ’ or the ‘ Kingdom of Heaven ’ they were not introducing a novel concept which needed explaining . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , for all their historical theorizing the liberals were concerned with power : they were not restoring a lost medieval constitution but meeting the potential absolutism of a restored monarchy with fundamental laws derived from contractualist political theory . |
| 10 | ‘ Supporting this theory , ’ Julie Flint concluded , ‘ is the fact that the Libyans arrested at Dakar were not carrying a radio-cassette bomb , as the Independent claimed , but component parts — ten detonators , 21 pounds of Semtex and several packets of TNT . |
| 11 | Poles had proved in 1830 – 1 that they posed a genuine threat to the unity of the empire , but Ukrainians were not to constitute a significant danger for decades . |
| 12 | It is evident that a relatively small proportion of schools had either chosen or felt able to implement the ISS recommended curriculum and that most schools were not following a broad and balanced curriculum for all pupils . |
| 13 | We were not concocting a cranky , hare-brained thesis calculated to produce an ‘ instant best-seller ’ . |
| 14 | There are proposals to link Valmorel 's skiing area to the Three Valleys , although we were n't given a definite timescale . |
| 15 | In a recent interview with this newspaper , Mr McCormick said : ‘ I would be the first to complain if I felt we were n't getting a fair crack of the whip . ’ |
| 16 | He said you were n't to let a new dog off the lead until he had for six weeks |
| 17 | As we strolled away , however , we had to hold our hands out at arm 's length , as if we were under arrest , to show the hawk that we were n't holding a juicy lump of rabbit . |
| 18 | ‘ Eventually , just from listening to albums you could tell what tunings they were using , because a lot of them were n't using a regular tuning , most of them would tune to a particular chord . |
| 19 | Jim Bob , laughing , says that some of the crew are here , as much for him to talk to as for their tour responsibilities : ‘ Because if we were n't having a good time with our friends we could n't do this . ’ |
| 20 | MAX ( to Peg ) : If we were n't having a civilized drink together , I 'd bash you for that ‘ our teapot . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |