Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [adv] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the sellers were not normally asking the maximum wage which the traffic would bear and offering in return the minimum quantity of labour they could get away with . |
| 2 | This boast suggests that the vase-painters were not just copying the innovations of great artists but felt themselves in the van of the movement , true pioneers . |
| 3 | ‘ While partnerships are part of our industry 's culture , we were not even scratching the surface of the benefits that could come from taking traditional relationships many steps further , ’ he said . |
| 4 | At the start of the study 70 patients in the control group and 74 in the prompted group were not currently attending a hospital eye clinic . |
| 5 | If workers were spending their time in this way , they were not only exercising a leisure preference but were consuming a non-essential . |
| 6 | So those gentlemen were not only infringing the Sale of Goods Act they were committing a criminal offence as well by infringing the Trade Descriptions Act so they ended up being prosecuted by Trading Standards . |
| 7 | There appeared to be little prospect of dialogue , however , as Serbian political leaders were not only denouncing the Albanian demonstrators as " terrorists " , but openly accusing leaders in Slovenia and Croatia of trying to undermine Serbia by voicing support for the demands of the Kosovar Albanians . |
| 8 | Girls were sometimes called apprentices , more often simply " learners " : indicating that they were not really acquiring a skill , just " learning on the job " , which was the standard training for most semi-skilled occupations . |
| 9 | Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference ; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness . |
| 10 | They were n't just humming a chorus of ‘ North Sea Sunrise ’ , the jazz tribute to the industry which the Norwegian contractor Kvaerner commissioned for its reception at Aberdeen 's Beach Ballroom . |
| 11 | During the market decline in August and September 1987 many brokers were n't even answering the phones . |
| 12 | we were n't even having the bloody gas heater on during the day |
| 13 | I mean , it did make me realize that for large parts of a drama lesson when the kids were supposed to be working on their own they were n't probably doing an awful lot . |
| 14 | If you were n't actually having a ‘ sleep-argument ’ you were probably dreaming about having one . |
| 15 | If they were n't actually paying the players — Cavaliers , South Pacific Barbarians , Centenary Tour — they were always threatening to break away and instigate a professional circuit if they were n't given games . |