Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While many hitherto disinterested onlookers could , perhaps , stomach the loss of several insect species ( even dragonflies and butterflies ) , there were few who were not moved by the prospect of extermination for a number of species of birds . |
| 2 | ‘ Fashion Mad ’ , it was titled , and this one was not written by a celebrated style pundit , but by a previously unrecognised talent called Associated Press . |
| 3 | But I received another note from Mellowes ; it said I was not to leave the office ; I was not to answer the phone ; above all I was not to speak to the press . |
| 4 | Those who were not participating in this type of research had to make do with walking in the oh so prolific Manchester rain , holding pillow-fighting competitions or otherwise bear the dreadful timetabled events . |
| 5 | Children who were slow to walk or slow to walk and talk had significantly lower IQ scores and experienced greater reading difficulties than those who were not delayed in walking or talking . |
| 6 | As always in such an undertaking , the art of organization lay in the avoidance of offending those who were not asked at a particular moment and in the ability to remember enmities and jealousies which could cause friction and poison the atmosphere if the wrong people found themselves together . |
| 7 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 8 | It is useful at this stage to indicate that guarantors and indemnifiers are of two types , those who act as such at the request of the customer and those who were not requested by the customer to do so . |
| 9 | On the other hand , should a change take place in the Administration , opportunities were created for those who were not established in the ministerial waiting list , and pressure could be increased upon the member of parliament to actively solicit preferment for his own constituents . |
| 10 | Whatever the differences between them , however , those who were not attached to religious organizations saw sport and recreation as the ‘ first reasons ’ for their existence . |
| 11 | But there were mistakes and sometimes a wrong tune was precented which did not fit the words , and on one or two occasions the congregation took up a tune of their own which was not intended in my precenting . |
| 12 | English manuscript illumination , as we shall see , also developed some qualities of its own which were not determined by French models . |
| 13 | It is really my own it was n't given by the government I paid for it . |