Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents were delighted that the decision was theirs and was not imposed on them by others . |
| 2 | Despite all of that I am driven to conclude that the decision was a voluntary one and was not vitiated by any undue influence . |
| 3 | The information was n't either was n't available to him or was not understood by him and he was n't able to interpret it for the board . |
| 4 | Mr Upham , 45 , was at Labour 's campaign headquarters when police broke the news to him and was not expected to be at last night 's count . |
| 5 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 6 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |