Example sentences of "were not [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now certain that Meehan and Griffiths were the murderers of Mrs Ross , the Crown Office in Edinburgh issued a statement that with Griffiths 's death and Meehan 's arrest , they were not looking for any other suspects in connection with the Ayr murder — thus , said Nicky , prejudging the very issue that was to come to trial . |
| 2 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 3 | The movies of the depression were not to go after that kind of realism . |
| 4 | It was only the ITV productions that were not led in this way , except Thames who , although they never had women in their top hierarchy , have always had extremely good women heading production teams . |
| 5 | Other groups of reptiles were not exterminated at this time , even though their fossils may be found in rocks as old as those that yield dinosaurs and the other spectacular , extinct groups . |
| 6 | But what would the interpretation be if that allegorical answer were not printed for all to see ? |
| 7 | The Brut suggests that others who were not rewarded in this way also supported the coup , including the younger Bohun brothers Humphrey and William , together with Ralph de Stafford and William de Clinton . |
| 8 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 9 | On the procedural side , 9,808 people were arrested in connection with the strike in England and Wales , but nearly one in five of these were not charged with any offence . |
| 10 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 11 | Any proposal which amounts to a new theory of justification may succeed in showing that in the Gettier cases the relevant true beliefs were not justified at all . |
| 12 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 13 | Protestants were another matter : they were not invited as such , but urged instead to return to the fold of Roman Catholicism . |
| 14 | However , the division into high and low heads as general types is probably the most basic that can be made , and it would be pointless to set up a more elaborate system to represent differences if these differences were not recognised by most English speakers . |
| 15 | Although not implausible , these suggestions were not substantiated by any solid evidence , and we had therefore been reluctant to accord them credence . |
| 16 | While new organizations may possess a strong commitment to a new policy , and may have powers that enable it to bring together the resources for its implementation that were not possessed by any single previous organization , it still has to relate to a world in which other agencies have a great deal of power to influence its success . |
| 17 | Parietal cell and intrinsic factor blocking antibodies were not detected in any subject with atrophy . |
| 18 | Comprehensive reorganization began in 1965 , although most schools were not reorganized on this basis until the mid-1970s . |
| 19 | Suffice it to say that amongst the people who were not contacted by this project within the first year are some of those seeing doctors on eight occasions . |
| 20 | He was making sure they were not exposed to any form of light source , however muted . |
| 21 | Their standard British Army issue tin helmets were not fitted with any kind of visor to protect against stones and other missiles . |
| 22 | Barclays ' top management has been heavily criticised following massive losses last year , but the bank insisted yesterday that the latest events were not connected with each other . |
| 23 | In a free market , all schools would be able to operate quality control on their raw material in this way , and it would not be long before some children were not wanted by any school because they were ‘ poor examination material ’ . |
| 24 | Boiled baits , or boilies as they are popularly known , were not devised with that purpose in mind , however , but to deter smaller fish from nibbling the bait away . |
| 25 | Not all cases , then , limited the jurists to advancing interpretations of trusts parallel to those of legacies , since trusts were not bound by all civil-law constraints . |
| 26 | Collection was not always successful and thus samples were not obtained from all subjects at all stages of the trials . |
| 27 | Nor will confessions obtained as a result of anything said or done which was likely to render them unreliable , be admissible , unless the prosecution can prove that they were not obtained in this way . |
| 28 | Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park . |
| 29 | Furthermore , they were not prepared for this by socialisation at school and at home . |
| 30 | The FI and RI categories represented the largest proportion of information needs within the EPH , and specific question lists of the other categories were not prepared at this stage . |