Example sentences of "and [adj] [was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not only able to review social security , I had the opportunity as a politician of implementing the changes — always provided I could get the support of my colleagues , of course , and that was not going to be easy . |
| 2 | She began to hope that maybe she 'd already been rescued and this was n't Spiderglass at all . |
| 3 | The bile acid concentration in faecal water also decreased with increasing dietary calcium , and this was not influenced by dietary phosphate . |
| 4 | This led to a certain amount of friction , as Matthew was in the habit of practising on his flute when he went to bed , and this was not appreciated by the men trying to sleep over his head , let alone those in the next room to him , and one day in the Mess they protested strongly and threatened to flatten him if this continued . |
| 5 | Bobby had an excellent goalscoring record with the Palace and his 18 League goals in both 1966–67 and 1967–68 were not approached in the top divisions by a Palace player for fully twenty years . |
| 6 | Thirteen patients did not enter the study : two did not want to , two were pregnant at the time of colposcopy , and nine were not treated in accordance with the study protocol ( no cervical scrape or no biopsy specimen was taken or no treatment was given when the biopsy specimen showed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia ) . |
| 7 | In return , the non-Muslims , although officially regarded as second-class citizens , were free to practise their religion and most were not conscripted for military service . |