Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] were not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Major problems might lie ahead for the ‘ enabling ’ health service schemes , if they were not complemented by new local authority back-up services . |
| 62 | The other was that the goods , if they were not purchased by the recipient , still belonged to the sender . |
| 63 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |
| 64 | All these resources , if they were not spent on making shell substance , could be spent on something else such as making more offspring . |
| 65 | The 1946 legislation introduced dependency benefits for wives , irrespective of age , provided they were not earning . |
| 66 | They would leave rights over the base 's grassland in existence , provided they were not exercised . |
| 67 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 68 | He could not know that Sophia was taking a keen interest in him and had even been considering him — provided he were not divorced or otherwise unsuitable-as a husband for her sister . |
| 69 | If it were not given the Vendor would be liable for any breaches of warranty . |
| 70 | If it were not to do this , it would be no more than the futility of changing or avoiding the subject . |
| 71 | For John Simon , it was ‘ so puny a play that if it were not extended in all directions by Dustin Hoffman 's life-giving performance , it would barely be discernible to the naked eye . |
| 72 | The treaty was based on fear of the ‘ dark terrors ’ of what might happen if it were not ratified . |
| 73 | Such a strategy would have to be very carefully designed , however , if it were not to result in a huge explosion of word hypotheses . |
| 74 | Secondly , even if it were not missing , manual manipulation of large numbers of records is a very time consuming task , and hardly one that the recruitment team will have time to do during busy periods . |
| 75 | With that came a warning that if it were not paid within six months , he would serve three years extra . |
| 76 | If it were not known that pupil-dilation was intimately related to neurological functioning of the brain its absence in some cases of head injury might go unremarked ; but once its significance is appreciated , such a seemingly slight symptom assumes drastic importance . |
| 77 | Second , sealing the border with Serbia would be unlikely to work if it were not accompanied by the simultaneous sealing of the border with Croatia : the Bosnian Serbs , already talking to the Croats about a confederal division of the spoils ( see page 46 ) , would get their supplies from Croatia , and the Croats — never mind their signatures on the Vance-Owen plan — would anyway continue their military campaign for territory . |
| 78 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 79 | If he were not to take her home , where would they go ? |
| 80 | Nevertheless , I have checked with my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , North-East ( Mr. Kirkhope ) , who would have leapt to his feet to speak if he were not precluded from doing so by virtue of his office , and I have read the document to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 81 | His father Ted , of Stoke-on-Trent , said : ‘ He could endure prison if he were not chained . ’ |
| 82 | ‘ My son kept a diary … three weeks before he flew to Moscow he recorded that he met an Alan Millet … four days before he left he met again with Alan Millet … why now does this Alan Millet speak of our son as if he were not known to him ? |
| 83 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 84 | ‘ We have been down to see the plans and were told we were not consulted because we were not affected , ’ she added . |
| 85 | We erm , sold bigger parcels to other parts of the countries in , in this town because we were not dealing specially in Walsall leathers at that time . |
| 86 | At present , six children are killed and 400 hurt in a year in crashes because they were not wearing a restraint . |
| 87 | Because they were not enacting any kind of simulation of hospital life , the exercise could be described as INDIRECT . |
| 88 | Despite these drawbacks the mid-year estimates undoubtedly provide an invaluable source and Champion ( 1987 ) concludes that for monitoring population change in England and Wales between 1971 and 1981 they may well be superior to the census ; Scottish estimates , however , he considers less accurate because they were not revised in the light of 1981 census results . |
| 89 | In those obvious cases , they have not been compensated properly because they were not covered due to a lapse of cover in the law . |
| 90 | The Icelanders protested , not because they supported the cause of Facisim or German expansion — given the choice they would doubtless have stood with the Norwegians , fellow Vikings — but because they were not asked to choose . |