Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [not/n't] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Senior Management Team were not pleased with this complacency : |
| 2 | If points on a circle were not equidistant from some fixed point , then that figure would just not be a Euclidean circle . |
| 3 | In this respect , the opinions of the parliamentary leadership were not dissimilar to those of the majority of Labour supporters , but this congruence does not invalidate the claim that Labour 's substantive and definite electoral support bloc was on the decline , and was being replaced , at least at the margin , by a more conditional and circumspect form of popular support . |
| 4 | It may well be , having regard to their verdict on count 6 , that the jury were not satisfied about that alleged representation . |
| 5 | Those who had come by train had the same problem as the trains for the return journey were not due for several hours . |
| 6 | ‘ There is no doubt that your situation is very difficult and the panel were not unsympathetic to this or any of the other cases before them with similar unfavourable circumstances . |
| 7 | Company were not satisfied with this and commissioned Thomas Telford , the greatest canal builder of all , to survey a route . |
| 8 | The loose-knit and voluntary grouping of independent states , united by ties of sentiment and not much else , could not match the political , economic and technological power of the homogeneous United States or Soviet Union although the total population and raw material resources of the Commonwealth were not inferior to those of the two superpowers . |
| 9 | Some views expressed at this time were not dissimilar to those of the ‘ Li Yi Zhe ’ document , whose authors were released in February 1979 . |
| 10 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 11 | Jargon is technical language that has become vernacular and , similarly , it is not intrinsically bad ; if technical language were not vernacular to those who need to use it , then it would actually serve very little purpose . |
| 12 | It is worth quoting here from a speech made by Gladstone when he opened St Martin-in-the-Fields public library a hundred years ago , and a few words in answer by W.H. Smith who , incidentally , was of the opposite political persuasion : party politics were not involved in these vital matters then . |
| 13 | ‘ But the family were n't artistic in any way , really . |