Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] were not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mick and Paddy had been well briefed on most things , but in the last-minute rush they were not given full details of my self-made code of conduct . |
| 2 | The workers who were fiddling at this particular factory were able to keep their self-image and conduct their working lives as good citizens ; like most unconvicted white-collar criminals they were not stigmatised . |
| 3 | ‘ Piper , it 's a bloody good job you were not wearing your kilt last night during the patrol . ’ |
| 4 | The control surfaces became sluggish and in spite of full power we were not making any height . |
| 5 | Many scientists were well-read in theological writings , and thus when in 1875 Stewart and Tait produced The Unseen Universe they were not doing anything very much out of the ordinary . |
| 6 | They always want to follow legal procedures up to a point , when even they realised that without some kind of help from other unions they were not going to win this strike . |