Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 31 | £45,000 was the asking price and I was not surprised that the sale , so to speak , hung fire . |
| 32 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 33 | I believe her , I trust her and I was not bewitched by her green eyes , owing to the fact that I was on duty at the time . ’ |
| 34 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 35 | There was only one post for part time senior registrar training in general medicine in the whole country , and I was not successful . |
| 36 | I had never seen a happy jogger and I was not ill . |
| 37 | Without meaning there is only suffering , and I was not going to leave it at that . |
| 38 | The kitchen was not done because the local authority could not produce the money until I was a tenant , and I was not a tenant until the builders had finished . |
| 39 | ‘ I was just going out then and I was not coming home until nearly 7am . ’ |
| 40 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 41 | But shortly afterwards , er , I was in confrontation with the chairman the basis of my contract with was such that it was not to his liking and I was not prepared to give way in the matter and was dismissed within six months of the acquisition of by . |
| 42 | Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse . |
| 43 | And I was not in the position to show the sternness which would have nipped it all in the bud . |
| 44 | ‘ I have been introduced and I was not impressed . |
| 45 | ‘ I know Devlin a little better than he imagines and I was not at all fooled about this easy assignment of yours . ’ |
| 46 | The reason why I consulted my brief was because I am to visit the Young Vic shortly and I was not certain whether the hon. Gentleman would appear on the stage or in the audience on that occasion . |
| 47 | But this is a very difficult track and I was not happy with the car this afternoon either . |
| 48 | Ten percent disagreed , and I was not surprised . |
| 49 | ‘ Today he told me to deliver a packet and I was not to tell you . |
| 50 | ‘ I was nervous and I was not making my first serves . |
| 51 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 52 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 53 | I went to a co-educational school and I was not aware of any pressure for girls to go into arts and boys into science . |
| 54 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 55 | A good spiritual director would have been able to interpret this experience and have led him , step by step , past these dangerous swings of mood to a disciplined equanimity which was rooted in a deeper part of the self and which was not so dependent upon exterior circumstance . |
| 56 | This opinion required that the other party to the Mandate agreement , South Africa , accept supervision by a body to which it had not consented and which was not even in existence at the time of the agreement . |
| 57 | The absence of an increase [ in cases of leukaemia ] in the rural high oil category overall in 1979–83 is due to a deficiency that is almost significant in areas with a lower child density or a lower oil impact score — and which was not present in the previous period , 1974–8 . |
| 58 | Apart from this final item — a charge which District Audit assure me is not made by most other banks and which was not made by yourselves in previous years — I have been very happy with the standard of service provided by Natwest Bank . |
| 59 | A property which was neither helping — as a qualifier forming part of the same noun phrase — to identify that entity , nor ascribable to any entity within the sentence , and which was not simply adverbially qualifying the verb , would have no convincing reason for appearing in the sentence at all . |
| 60 | Special schools for mentally handicapped children now exist throughout Prior to the 1971 Act , the education of mentally handicapped children was governed by legislation dating from 1944 , which advocated a selective procedure to determine which children were considered educable and which were not . |