Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brightly-coloured uniforms and gleaming breastplates were not kept for the parade ground , but were meant to be worn in battle . |
| 2 | It was held that as he had only paid to avoid seizure of his goods and never voluntarily nor intending to give up his rights to the sums paid nor to close the transactions , he was entitled to recover those payments which were not barred by the Statute of Limitation . |
| 3 | It was October before negotiations reached any resolution and the troops were not withdrawn until the end of the year . |
| 4 | The 1900 Olympics were not ratified by the IOC until 1912 ( ironically the year of the ill-fated Triangular Tournament , first-class cricket 's first attempt at an international tournament ) . |
| 5 | The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists . |
| 6 | To remind them that their rule was derived from God himself , and that they were neither creators nor rulers by right , God forbade them only one thing : they were not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil ; such a mysterious gnosis belonged to God alone . |
| 7 | Toys were not manufactured during the war , at least not for the home market . |
| 8 | The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth . |
| 9 | They were not caused by the coming of de Gaulle : that merely served to crystallise them . |
| 10 | The difficulties associated with the introduction of the community charge were not caused by the time taken for the Bill to pass through the House , but by the fact that a large number of regulations relating to the charge were passed close to its introduction . |
| 11 | Central bodies were not to negotiate on the transfer of facilities to Lithuanian jurisdiction ( on March 13 the Lithuanian Supreme Council had passed a bill establishing the principle of Lithuanian jurisdiction over all economic facilities in the republic currently held solely by the USSR central authorities or jointly with Lithuania ) . |
| 12 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |
| 13 | Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making . |
| 14 | Recently my female Oscar laid eggs , but they were not fertilised by the male . |
| 15 | He supervised the exercise of common rights by the forest inhabitants , seeing to it , for example , that cattle were not pastured in the forest beyond the period allowed by the Forest law , and seizing animals illegally pastured there . |
| 16 | These plans were not sent to the Parish Council or the local residents for comment . |
| 17 | ‘ It is obvious to me that you were not born to the position you now occupy . ’ |
| 18 | The result of tests on them were not placed before the trial . |
| 19 | WHILE Australia 's 27–12 and 37–13 victories over Scotland in the test series saw the Wallabies again rewrite the record books , the two victories were not achieved with the slickness and perfection which coach Bob Dwyer and his team are striving . |
| 20 | The levels of IgA-ANCAs were not explained by the occurrence of agglutinating rheumatoid factors ( not illustrated ) . |
| 21 | These haematological and biochemical parameters , however , were not related to the presence of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody reactivity , except for a negative correlation between the presence of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and serum albumin concentration ( r=-0.215 ; p=0.031 ) . |
| 22 | They were not related to the duration of gestation . |
| 23 | In their study maternal age , the length of time from birth , and maternal education were not related to the accuracy of reported birth weight . |
| 24 | The colleges have always taken the view that accreditation was not a prerequisite for appointment ; a recent survey revealed that approximately one third of physicians were not accredited at the time of their appointment . |
| 25 | From the planet 's surface you might think there is an eastward force , but there is n't , and if you were not rotating with the planet then this would be obvious . |
| 26 | In pursuing their administrative and legislative strategies , the Reaganites were not fiddling at the margin or tinkering with the status quo . |
| 27 | Sulphate reducing bacteria , which were not detected during the control diet , were found and viable counts of methanogenic bacteria fell from 10 7 –10 9 /g faeces to 10 6 /g . |
| 28 | Almost 900 single GKM giants/supergiants in the Bright Star Catalogue were not detected in the X-ray survey ; these were well distributed over the H-R diagram ( Fig. 1 , top panel ) . |
| 29 | Radionuclides in particulate form such as strontium-90 , uranium isotopes , and plutonium were not detected in the environment and would either have been retained in the fuel or , if released from the fuel , would have remained in the coolant water . |
| 30 | Jimmy 's hands were not sinking into the concrete . |