Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [verb] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The remaining two pups were not registered with the AKC , as they were not thought to be of high enough merit . |
| 4 | Motilin , administered exogenously at physiological doses , also increases the distal colonic motility index but these results were not confirmed with the motilin agonist erythromycin , which had no effect on segmenting sigmoid pressure activity or colonic transit . |
| 5 | In ex parte Norwich City Council , the local authority were not proceeding with the sale of council houses as expeditiously as the minister wished . |
| 6 | Can construct accurately 2-D shapes with a ruler , protractor and compass The test results , described in Chapter 4 ( pp. 41–102 ) , suggest that rectangular shapes can be drawn with good accuracy but they were not drawn with the use of geometrical instruments . |
| 7 | But it was very clear that the Irish were not playing with the conviction they had demonstrated in Dunedin . |
| 8 | No limit was imposed upon the spending of a PAC on behalf of a candidate as long as its activities were not coordinated with the candidate . |