Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenya administrators also discovered the ‘ importance and usefulness of [ cattle ] sales as a meeting place for the transaction of official business ’ , but except in wartime , when the army needed meat , veterinary quarantines imposed in response to pressure from representatives of the European livestock industry meant that such sales were not a prominent feature of life in Kenya Masai District . |
| 2 | A survey by Houghton and Prosser found that delays were not a major problem for a research worker borrowing copies of periodical articles through the interlending system . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps it would be wise to search you ? ’ he asks , almost politely , as though it were not a rhetorical question . |
| 4 | The studio could see that labour-management relations were not a suitable theme for feature films and no attempt was ever made to repeat this particular experiment . |
| 5 | Though both these statements were true they were not a great advance on Lucretius . |
| 6 | The three words were not a great deal for Carrie to pin her hopes to , but she had a warm and happy glow deep inside her as she let herself in at the door of the cottage . |
| 7 | They were not a shapeless porridge of symbols , for at any rate some of them were consistently connected with others . |
| 8 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 9 | On other , more inclusive counts there were not a hundred or so nationalities in the USSR ( the 1989 census recorded 128 ) but as many as 400 , or even 800 . |
| 10 | While conceding her part in the enterprise was not as extensive as her paramour accomplice , Judge Kenneth Rubin did say , ‘ Quite clearly you were not a passive person . ’ |
| 11 | Divisions among different groups of students were clear ; they were not a homogeneous group but differentiated along the lines of study area , social origins , gender and so on . |
| 12 | If Britain were not a racist society , transracial adoption would not be an issue ; but as long as race relations continue their current path transracial adoption must be an area of concern . |
| 13 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 14 | He hoped he at least sounded businesslike , as though it were not a private call , and realized immediately that Alexandra would refuse to take the call if she knew it was him . |
| 15 | ‘ The internal dissension in the three parties , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb in her diary , ‘ each party finding its bitterest enemies among its own members or ci-devant members , would be ludicrous if it were not a sinister symptom of the decadent disrupture of British public opinion , owing to lack of faith either in the present order or in any consistent and comprehensive principles of reconstruction . ' |
| 16 | If the object reflecting the echoes were not a static tree but a moving insect , the Doppler consequences would be more complicated , but the bat could still calculate the velocity of relative motion between itself and its target , obviously just the kind of information a sophisticated guided missile like a hunting bat needs . |
| 17 | The anger generated by this sort of situation among English Protestants underlay the mob destruction of the chapels attached to the Bavarian and Sardinian legations during the Gordon Riots of 1780 ; but in general religious frictions of this kind were not a serious source of difficulty . |
| 18 | Though changing methods of planning for traffic specifically in residential areas were not a central thrust of Traffic in Towns , the book provided a context for residential area strategies which , in the event , have guided a number of countries in the ensuing quarter century . |
| 19 | As Turbosoft were not a limited liability company , the proprietors are personally liable for the losses and could be made bankrupt . |
| 20 | It must be stressed that the Zealots were not a religious sect or denomination . |
| 21 | That the acts were not a new departure is argued by those who draw attention to the pre-existing illegality of trade unions under the law of conspiracy and under around forty statutes , a number of which were specific to particular trades . |
| 22 | Clearly , even if the acts were not a new departure in terms of the basic question of legality , they were hardly more of the same . |
| 23 | ‘ We were not a good team then but we are now . |
| 24 | That means that they were not a good fit in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | I was advised to speak initially to the region 's director of public health , who told me that geographical limitations and the pastoral duties of a vicar 's wife were not a good enough reason to train part time , and he would not support my application . |
| 26 | They said it gave people ideas , Dorcas gathered , which were not a good thing unless they were the right kind of ideas . |
| 27 | However , the changes were not a complete break with the past . |
| 28 | Commercial attachés were not a complete answer to the problem of coping with the increasing volume and importance of economic diplomacy . |
| 29 | The rich were not a hereditary class , for most wealthy men were self-made . |
| 30 | The overall conclusion to these studies is that organisations under capitalism are likely to have a more elaborate division of labour , hence a more extensive organisational hierarchy , make greater use of rules and procedures , and generally have a more complex form of organisation than would be the case if there were not a fundamental conflict being worked out within the firm between capital and labour . |