Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 2 | The Barnet crisis dominated yesterday 's meeting although their problems were not even on the agenda . |
| 3 | Essential services like housing and transport were not even on the drawing board . |
| 4 | Tearful farewells , after a night on the toot , were not really on the cards . |
| 5 | Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners . |
| 6 | These are comments about young people which were spoken with a tenor of near hatred at a meeting of a council committee when young people were n't even on the agenda . |
| 7 | They certainly were n't anywhere on the Moon , or anywhere else I 've ever heard of , before or since . |
| 8 | Batts and Dorigo were nt even on the bench for England , Speed was a sub for Wales ( cos they wanted to play sweeper … |