Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the alchemists , he claimed , was in his way an incarnation of Mercurius — the ever-ambiguous tutelary spirit of the Art who promised much and was not to be had for the asking . |
| 2 | Edward stayed in the Engineers for a bit , then came out and was not very successful in finding a job to suit him . |
| 3 | Passing Baku in the 13th century , Marco Polo noted that the black oil burned well but was not good with food . |
| 4 | Marsh went away and was not silly for he came back with a micro-testing machine which worked , which he had designed and built himself . |
| 5 | As the cohort died out and were not replaced , the asylums could be shut down . |
| 6 | Shock , do you understand the difference between the loss of pressure and loss of volume , volume would be when liquid was leaking out , coming out of the blood vessels , okay , pressure would be when the heart itself , the pump itself had failed or was not working properly , failed completely or was not working properly , do you understand the difference ? |