Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few more war damaged cars and non-standard cars for which spare parts were not available were moved into Purley depot . |
| 2 | Evolutionary sources of ‘ goodness ’ have been defined earlier as arising from beneficial changes , changes which were not beneficial being simply designated ‘ not good ‘ because they were not intentionally harmful . |
| 3 | Those schools which were not satisfied were asked to give examples of the constraints which limited provision and , apart from time , those most commonly mentioned in the primary sector related to the low priority given to health education when compared with other developments , and to the lack of a specific school policy . |
| 4 | To say that the teaching staff were not Anglo-Catholic is an understatement . |
| 5 | The old nursery block had been taken over temporarily as part of the laundry , and the children who were not sick were maintained in a ward on the female side . |
| 6 | Hello baby we were n't long were we ? |
| 7 | they were n't laughable were they ? |
| 8 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 9 | No you were n't sick were you ? |
| 10 | Even people who were n't British were calling out my name . |
| 11 | Well I mean these were the kind of jobs that were n't replaceable were n't they really ? |
| 12 | and they were n't disposable were they ? |
| 13 | Well you were n't surprised are you ? |
| 14 | What was not apparent was that there had been a total flight instrument failure because of a complete electrical breakdown while the aircraft was flying in cloud . |
| 15 | The people I had seen , the sounds I had heard , and that vile smell , had been real , not supernatural ; what was not real was the absence of any visible machinery — no secret rooms , nowhere to disappear — or of any motive . |
| 16 | To say that Mr Grovey was not amused is a bit of an understatement . |
| 17 | Children whose first language was not English were excluded from the sample . |
| 18 | That he was not Jewish was seen as another point in his favour . |
| 19 | What was not clear was the manner or the extent of their involvement . |
| 20 | One Delhi-wallah of whom this was not true was our unfortunate mali . |
| 21 | He was n't Dominican was he . |
| 22 | She was n't well was she ? |
| 23 | The first time Nathan knew for certain that something was n't right was when Donald smashed him over the head with a can of beans . |
| 24 | It was n't Victorian is was the twentieth |
| 25 | It was n't pre-arranged was it ? |
| 26 | That was n't heavy was it ? |
| 27 | That was n't difficult was it ! ’ |
| 28 | See it was n't difficult was it ? |
| 29 | Yeah that was n't bad was it ? |
| 30 | She was n't happy being Cara , was n't comfortable with the name ; it was n't hers . |