Example sentences of "were not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain critics like Hourcade and Allard , who did not realize the importance of what Picasso and Braque were doing , continued to take a broad view of Cubism as simply a return to a more sober , classical form of art , and thus to include within the movement a large number of artists who were not strictly speaking Cubist but had been slightly influenced by the style . |
| 2 | They were not strictly speaking , ‘ Carry Ons ’ but you could have fooled the audiences . |
| 3 | These procedures were not strictly observed , resulting in temporary or permanent loss of items . |
| 4 | This , say Mrs Bagwell and her supporters , the swastikas and posters notwithstanding , is the final proof that the attacks on the Ks were not racially motivated . |
| 5 | Random undercover checks at 50 MOT garages in the Durham and Cleveland area showed almost half were not up to scratch . |
| 6 | Scotland , though , were not thus attired . |
| 7 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 8 | These rallies , which were not infrequently marked by violent clashes with communists , reminded many people of Hitler 's Nuremberg rallies . |
| 9 | The Tuileries gardens were not infrequently decorated by electric lights and the palace itself , when there was a state ball , added electric lamps to the exterior illuminations . |
| 10 | Polish schools were not physically suppressed , but were simply left outside the system of Prussian state subsidy . |
| 11 | It would also be surprising if the problems for which we have developed such services , be they , in our case , radio isotope testing , or information retrieval software , or computer systems for stock or other control , were not equally recognized by competitors and people in other fields of business . |
| 12 | None of these techniques were able to detect any difference in the pattern of wild-type and mutant RNA polymerases downstream of -38 , indicating that crucial recognition patterns in the -10 and -35 regions were not visibly modified . |
| 13 | For these reasons Magharba and Zuwaya who were not tribally minded stayed away : voters who regarded themselves as modernizing were silent , and the turn-out was somewhat lower than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 14 | But these distinctions and considerations were not expressly addressed in the Convention 's negotiating process and so do not feature explicitly in its text . |
| 15 | The meetings were informal and were not normally based upon consideration of specific statistical or financial reports , being instead discursive , impressionistic and somewhat gossipy . |
| 16 | However , they were not normally set up for the heavy infantryman 's tactics of prolonged defence before a steady advance , although they were misused in these roles at times . |
| 17 | They remained so throughout the nineteenth century and were not normally trusted with public office . |
| 18 | But the sellers were not normally asking the maximum wage which the traffic would bear and offering in return the minimum quantity of labour they could get away with . |
| 19 | There is evidence to suggest that the walls which carried these pictures were not normally plastered but panelled , though plaster is used in the tombs of Etruria and Paestum , as it had been in Bronze-age palaces and was to be in Hellenistic tombs in Greece ( below , p. 176 ) . |
| 20 | As most were not normally distributed , results are expressed as median values with 95% conidence intervals ( 95% CIs ) . |
| 21 | Children were not normally admitted , so Nannerl and Mozart were privileged . |
| 22 | Prisoners were not normally allowed to visit the library to choose their own books . |
| 23 | They were not normally used on the Sutton route , but had to use the depôt for overhaul facilities . |
| 24 | He had argued that the prints were not improperly taken but it was said that his possession must have originated in breach of trust , confidence or contract and , therefore , an injunction was granted preventing the exhibition . |
| 25 | In Japan , there had been criticism that Japanese officials were not adequately consulted during the Gulf crisis . |
| 26 | Two patients had very high insulin concentrations before starting treatment ( 161 and 213 mU/l ) , suggesting that they were not adequately fasted . |
| 27 | A system of means tested assistance would be necessary as a ‘ safety-net ’ for the minority whose needs were not adequately covered by the scheme . |
| 28 | The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor . |
| 29 | ‘ Clients were not adequately informed about the permanent nature of the operation in over 40% of the centres ’ Joint World Bank , WHO , SIDA , Government review of sterilisation in Bangladesh , 1983 |
| 30 | German towns were not adequately equipped with clergy or churches ( Berlin in 1880 had churches for only 25,000 worshippers ) . |