Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , interviews with pupils are included but were not carried out on a systematic basis and the results have not been correlated with pupils ' GT4 scores . |
| 2 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 3 | A public school was more alien to his nature than his father realized : this son was not cut out for a smooth ascent of the ladder of preferment . |
| 4 | All this administrative devolution was done by Conservative Governments , and it was not done out of a feeling of national sentiment , but because of the administrative requirements needed to achieve good government for the Scottish people . |
| 5 | I was not going back into a situation where I only had myself to talk to . |
| 6 | It is Perhaps a pity that Mary Queen of Scots was not brought up on a diet of d'Ayala . |
| 7 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 8 | His biggest regret , he said , was not signing off with a 34th try . |