Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , levity would not help her to convince fitzAlan that they were not being followed . |
| 2 | She had to resist a constant urge to glance back over her shoulder to make sure they were not being followed , although she had given fitzAlan enough time to be well ahead of her before starting out . |
| 3 | When he was certain they were not being followed he darted down a narrow , stinking court and knocked at a door . |
| 4 | The only reasonable conclusion appeared to be that because the two stallions lived in yards , and at that time were not being ridden , they consequently had a life that demanded virtually no decision making at all — their days were so dominated by habit that they had become completely unable to think . |
| 5 | It argued that without them : it would not be possible , in practice , to operate a system of resale price maintenance because it would be impracticable for each publisher to specify his own conditions of sale ; booksellers would find it impossible to comply with all the varied terms imposed by different publishers ; booksellers would lose their assurance that they were not being undercut ; and the Association itself could not effectively monitor individual resale agreements . |
| 6 | Perhaps it 's surprising that in some cases the learning outcomes and performance criteria were not being assessed or applied — all the National Certificate publications stress that these features are at the heart of the competence-based system and that they can not be varied under any circumstances . |
| 7 | ‘ The report would not have come to the Bank as such a surprise either if PW … had more plainly and directly , more consistently , more comprehensively and , if they felt their messages were not being received , more vigorously , brought them to the notice of the Bank . ’ |
| 8 | Ambulance services were hit in many areas , but the dispute remained centred on London , where management published a list of 999 calls which it said were not being answered . |
| 9 | Members complained that their phone calls were not being answered ; federal appointments were being made without reference to them ; legislative proposals were emerging without prior consultation with congress and senior presidential staff were accused of not treating Congressional leaders with sufficient respect . |
| 10 | Mr Thomson also felt undermined because ‘ untoward occurrences ’ , including allegations of staff threatening residents , were not being relayed to him for up to three weeks , even though he was legally responsible for reporting them to the county council . |
| 11 | It would be surprising if a similar tally were not being kept in Moscow now , against the day when Gorbachev may over-reach himself . |
| 12 | He said 87 people had died in the past two months — but that deaths occurring on the trek to the camp were not being recorded . |
| 13 | This phenomenon is almost impossible to illustrate in a monologue , and I would at this point have issued a handout , if the talk were not being recorded , for it is very easy to see a sentence in progress when the turns in the dialogue are written down . |
| 14 | We did not want to be the cause of friction ; but as we were unable to ascertain what the Club had in mind by way of arrangements , we proposed tea or dinner , or , if he were not being entertained in the evening , both . |
| 15 | I would tell him scores from matches that were not being played , scores from matches that could never have been played , fanciful scores , impossible scores . |
| 16 | As a result of that dispute , the NGA members were on strike and the Dimbleby newspapers were not being printed . |
| 17 | And some voluntary bodies felt they were not being given adequate enough attention . |
| 18 | Tension over the status of the territory continued in 1990 , continuing allegations from Logologofolau that his elected colleagues , together with the traditional chiefs , were not being given a sufficient say in decision-making by the French-appointed Chief Administrator . |
| 19 | Furthermore , new teachers were not being trained fast enough to replace the trained teachers who were leaving the profession . |
| 20 | Things were not being made to last . |
| 21 | The inquest had been adjourned in August after the hospital insisted on a independent pathologist 's report but Ian Gilmour , QC , for the Cardiothoracic Centre NHS Trust , said that the post mortem findings were not being challenged . |
| 22 | The Bush tour produced no substantial new initiatives , and was seen primarily as a US effort to reassure the region 's governments that they were not being ignored , even though US foreign policy was currently dominated by eastern Europe and by the Gulf crisis . |
| 23 | Agreement was reached on April 3 to increase wages by 25 per cent in each of the next four quarters , in exchange for productivity increases , but on the following day IUM representatives announced that since the strikers ' political demands were not being met the strike would not be suspended . |
| 24 | A spokesman told The Northern Echo yesterday some local education authority staff were also working for the Dyslexia Institute and there was no indication the needs of dyslexic youngsters were not being met . |
| 25 | They are boycotting new assessment procedures , claiming social welfare officers were not being recognised for increased workloads . |
| 26 | This study was carried out to determine the number of haemophilic patients seropositive for HIV antibodies and the mortality from HIV infection and to confirm that young children were not being exposed to the virus . |
| 27 | For his convulsing limbs , gripped within the slender yet firm framework , were not being consumed — even in his agony he understood that his substance remained unblemished . |
| 28 | Prussia 's pre-eminence was institutionalised in that the King of Prussia was ex-officio the chairman of the Bundesrat , but this was only as titular Head of State , not head of government : in all matters Bismarck was keen to stress the federal , decentralised aspects of the constitution , both to reassure the smaller states that they were not being swallowed up and also to convince Prussia that she was not losing sovereignty to the supranational authority either . |
| 29 | Respondents were asked to describe how they would like to expand their training programmes : this elicited needs that libraries perceived as significant but which were not being satisfied , and information about the factors that they felt were preventing them from undertaking ‘ enough ’ training . |
| 30 | ( They were not being condemned , but applauded by the phrase ! ) |