Example sentences of "were not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Koch 's attempt to promote immunity with extracts of the organism ( tuberculins ) were not crowned with therapeutic success . |
| 2 | Inter-word boundary effects were not implemented for the first prototype . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 7 | You came into the chamber , you were not looking for an almost invisible line of thread running from your bed underneath the door . |
| 8 | We were we were not looking for an exception to policy E two we were looking for a policy which complements erm I five . |
| 9 | Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the discovery . |
| 10 | Police investigating the cause of a suspicious house fire in which a 33-year-old man died said yesterday ( Wed ) they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident . |
| 11 | They were not looking at us . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And Tory arguments that the tax would make companies uncompetitive were not looking at the whole picture . |
| 14 | Notice that A1 , M1 , M2 and M3 were not called upon . |
| 15 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 16 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 17 | The movies of the depression were not to go after that kind of realism . |
| 18 | The effects of the error were not rectified until 1888 , when the Commissioners agreed that the vacant appointment should be filled by a nominee from " the Magistrates for Lancashire meeting at Manchester and qualified as ex officio Poor Law Guardians of the Board of Guardians for the Union of Stockport . " |
| 19 | Brightly-coloured uniforms and gleaming breastplates were not kept for the parade ground , but were meant to be worn in battle . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They were not kept in suspense for more than five minutes . |
| 22 | Er everything depending on the the the the work of the farm would come to a standstill if erm if the horses y if they were not kept in good condition , they would n't be strong enough to keep on going every day . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They were very conscious during this requiem mass that they were not to pray for him , but pray to him . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As pesticides became more widely used by most farmers , ‘ organic ’ farming took on a broader meaning — the crops were not sprayed with synthetic pesticides either . |
| 30 | It was only the ITV productions that were not led in this way , except Thames who , although they never had women in their top hierarchy , have always had extremely good women heading production teams . |