Example sentences of "were [adv] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1713 , at the election for the City of London ( where the franchise was vested in the liverymen ) , " a great Mob of Weavers and such people " ( who were presumably not enfranchised ) turned up at the Guildhall in support of the Whigs , and " made a disturbance and caus 'd much fighting and quarrelling " , although the four Tory candidates eventually carried the day , " notwithstanding the Rabble " . |
| 2 | ‘ You were right not to call the police . ’ |
| 3 | Although public awareness of the Third Reich is probably greater in Germany than in the US , the organisers were right not to cut down on the documentary material . |
| 4 | The Bishops were mostly not opposed to liberty of conscience for Dissenters , the wiser of whom opposed the Declaration , but considered that only Parliament could revoke the Test Acts , so that the Declaration was illegal . |
| 5 | That having been said , where gaps appear in the Code it would be better for them to be filled by a change in the Code itself rather than by judicial interpretation , for it must not be forgotten that breach of the Code is a disciplinary offence and it would be unfortunate if the officers in the present case , who were rightly not made the subject of any criticism by the court , should even in theory be liable to disciplinary proceedings . |
| 6 | The joint DES/DHSS nature of the Circular , the necessary involvement of health and social services professionals in the multi-professional assessment , and their part in providing for those with special educational needs , were apparently not seen as sufficient reason for including them in discussions . |
| 7 | The guards were apparently not given any regular weapons training and I felt that they really carried the weapons more as part of their uniform and tradition than because of absolute necessity . |
| 8 | ‘ Wearing a white beret in among Australians , New Zealanders and every type of nationality out there brought some great wolf whistles , which were naturally not received in the right manner . |
| 9 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 10 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 11 | While most eighteenth-century beaux were obviously not disposed to live within their income and affected a bland indifference to the need to manage their personal finances , the tradesmen , the creditors on whose forbearance their insouciance depended , were campaigning against any legislation which seemed to reduce any further the chances of recovering what was owed them . |
| 12 | The patients here were obviously not allowed to feel that nobody cared about them . |
| 13 | There was an improvement in the literacy levels amongst women , but they were handicapped by the fact that they were generally not taught Latin . |
| 14 | Hamlets and farmsteads within the parishes of these villages were generally not documented before the twelfth or thirteenth centuries and were therefore assumed to be secondary or daughter settlements created as the population expanded , more land was cleared and farmed , and new settlements were needed . |
| 15 | This seems to suggest that for films with many moving objects or with high levels of subjective risk subjects ignored the fixed information in the recognition phase and were thus not biased by it . |
| 16 | Certain authorities , originally identified by Sir Geoffrey Howe as potential recipients of enterprise zones in the 1980 Budget speech — notably Sheffield and Wolverhampton — were unable to reach agreement with the Treasury over this issue , and were thus not granted zones . |
| 17 | Despite the extensive damage to Kuwaiti oilfields in particular , the earlier predictions of massive oil price increases in the event of war were thus not fulfilled . |
| 18 | They were just not telling him . |
| 19 | Honestly , it was just sitting there , we were just not moving . |
| 20 | For our part , the Government were just not prepared to stand by and see our capital city and its people denied the benefits of this imaginative project . |
| 21 | They were just not talking to each other at all . ’ |
| 22 | We had a big management shakeup in BHS when I could see that certain people were just not going to change their spots . |
| 23 | ‘ Some players were just not doing their stuff at Bradford and there has been some strong talking this week . ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes one partner suspects hidden meanings which were genuinely not intended . |
| 25 | The locks were still not completed so that whatever traffic moved between then and the opening of the Foxton Flight on 1 October 1813 must have involved portage up the tramway . |
| 26 | As it pointed out , we could double our expenditure on dentists but if people were still not prepared to brush their teeth ( and governments still refuse to fluoridate drinking water ) then the same number of teeth would probably have to be extracted : an appalling 8 million that year , with almost 30% of the people in the country having no teeth of their own . |
| 27 | However , the implementation of the Declaration was left up to the relevant ministers and as of early 1990 political parties , trade unions , strikes , civil marriage , divorce and gambling were still not permitted . |
| 28 | At a time when my country had a woman in the highest office of state , women were still not admitted to the lowest order in the church , that of deacon . |
| 29 | Somehow he had survived the attempted assassinations , the palace revolutions of his childhood , and was beginning to gather about him men who were willing to gamble their fortune with his , as well as others who were still not committed , and yet others who might , before he grew any stronger , take any chance that presented itself to push their own claims . |
| 30 | But the Labour Government which had intended the Festival as a celebration of welfare-minded , egalitarian , planner 's Britain — a Britain where identity cards were still not abolished — was , by the time it opened , hanging on by a slender majority of six and , by the time it ended , on the point of being ejected . |