Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients with hyperplastic polyps only were not accepted for enrollment . |
| 2 | But the first two pairs were on adjacent lanes three and four and so were not affected by any inequality in the lanes . |
| 3 | well I know it says from the Midlands freezing fog , so were not going out in it so I can |
| 4 | Three of yesterday 's heads had n't enough money so were not supplied . |
| 5 | Representatives of foreign governments were persuaded to give large sums to the contras , but were not asked directly , so the story went , and so were not solicited . |
| 6 | The morning rehearsals each day were a Tiller rule not demanded by the management and so were not paid for . |
| 7 | Thus , for example , the items get , next , never did not show the phonetic range of variation characteristic of the /Ε/; class in Belfast and so were not counted as tokens of ( Ε ) ; in fact , they varied between [ Ε ] and [ ? ] , forming a small phonolexical set of which the total membership can not easily be specified . |
| 8 | Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises . |
| 9 | ‘ There was no damage to the police vehicle involved and the officers inside were not injured . |
| 10 | The sin , curiously enough was not committed by any woman . |
| 11 | The boyfriend , who suddenly was not allowed to be involved in these discussions at all , talked to his girlfriend and they were married by special licence . |
| 12 | This statement ‘ out of the blue ’ naturally was not understood by the speechreader , who wondered why people laughed . |
| 13 | The appeal target for the last Games in Auckland in 1990 was also £250,000 and , significantly perhaps was not reached , £195,000 including sponsorship from McEwans of £100,000 being raised . |
| 14 | People will wonder if it is their fault that the person who died in the road traffic accident perhaps was not looking where they were going because of being preoccupied with what was happening just before they left home . |
| 15 | This procedure obviously was not followed in this case and Turning Point is looking into what happened . ’ |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman obviously was not listening to my answer . |
| 17 | Though she had swum the river on her own , she obviously was not going to risk it with her family . |
| 18 | He said this kindly , as if he meant it as a tip she could use on her next date — which obviously was not going to be with him . |
| 19 | The presence of columnar epithelium of the gastric type only was not considered to be Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 20 | One duty only was not passed on — for it was decided to convert the bell system from manual to electrical operation . |
| 21 | Why this was so was not explained . |
| 22 | Councillor Malachi Curran , the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , claimed the area had not received a fair share in the past and there was an onus on the government to ensure Down was not neglected . |
| 23 | A similar sensitivity was observed for GST-protein A probed with enzyme-conjugated rabbit antibodies ( AP-Conjugated Rabbit Ab ) , while GST alone was not detected . |
| 24 | The social democrats generally were not isolated from these changes . |
| 25 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 26 | Cover features just were not delivered . |
| 27 | Indeed , the Hampstead ABC did n't seem to be hungry : two rabbits in a hutch ten yards away were not touched . |
| 28 | For once her motive for staying downstairs was not to avoid the bedroom routine — his request and her reluctant compliance . |
| 29 | was laid out late in the first century , but its continuation southwards was not constructed until the mid third century . |
| 30 | This fear of American inroads into areas that Britain used to control effortlessly was not confined to civil aviation ; the British also resented the activity of US oil companies in the Middle East , and US attempts to break into the British-dominated international rubber market and the sterling bloc . |