Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in his judgment the RM said the defendants had failed to satisfy him that the dogs were not pit bull type terriers . |
| 2 | The study of 90 French enterprises , of which 70% were not Sun clients , determined that the majority , 79% , of the respondents see a major evolution in their computing architecture . |
| 3 | Even when industries were not state owned there were various other instruments by which government actually exercised a large measure of control over the private sector . |
| 4 | Even Jimmy 's early morning blues were not proof against that , and they eventually arrived back at base in a much better humour than when they took off . |
| 5 | In the second half of 1848 the Prussian ambassador was reporting to Berlin that St Petersburg 's main concerns were not revolution but a cholera epidemic , the expectation of a poor harvest and a shortage of cash . |
| 6 | But there were still those who suggested that its ‘ clumsy ’ diction and experimental forms were not poetry at all . |
| 7 | I tried repeatedly to explain at public meetings that we were not sex police and not in the least concerned with people 's morals . |
| 8 | We may suspect that the first replicators on the primitive Earth were not DNA molecules . |
| 9 | I realised at the beginning of 1992 that we were not core and that we were to be disposed of — we had a very difficult year . ’ |
| 10 | Was it ever anything more homogeneous than the sum total of the systems which were not communism ? |
| 11 | In Tuberville v Savage , the accused laid his hand on his sword and said : " If it were not assize time , I would not take such language . " |
| 12 | These costs were not litigation costs . |
| 13 | Riding on again , down the road which they thought would be the easiest route to the Fire Court , Fenella began to have the feeling that the twisty Tree stumps were not Tree stumps at all , but horrid , stunted living things and that malicious ancient eyes looked out from their depths . |
| 14 | Tolkien was not by any means cut off from the mainstream of English poetry , though the qualities he valued were not surprise , the mot juste , verbal complexity , but rather a slow probing of the familiar . |
| 15 | In Lawson v Rolfe ( 1969 ) 46 TC 199 , it was held that stock dividends paid under a particular provision in the law of California were not income in the hands of a life tenant of an American will trust . |
| 16 | As Suger said much later , the king recognized that he held of St Denis and that , if he were not king , he would owe the saint homage . ’ |
| 17 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 18 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
| 19 | We were not spell bound by David . |
| 20 | Tent pegs were not cancer cells . |
| 21 | The air that stirred round their trunks seemed green , thick , rippling — as if it were not air but drifting water . |
| 22 | Mr Brooke said the summer 's inter-party discussions were not peace talks as such , but they were one of the pressures that could be mounted on the terrorists . |
| 23 | We are quite clear , and we were clear when we conducted the talks this summer , that they were not peace talks because they would not bring an end to the violence , but were one of the pressures that can be mounted against the terrorists . |
| 24 | The positive non-inflammatory bowel disease culture also grew acid fast bacilli which were not M paratuberculosis . |
| 25 | What were their motives , if they were not rapine and robbery ? |
| 26 | The CSE boards were not university dominated . |
| 27 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 28 | She would as often as not weep during the song , and these were not glycerine tears , and they were not , except in the later years , produced to order . |
| 29 | The truth , I suspect , is that sport and Mr Punch were not bosom chums . |
| 30 | Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway . |