Example sentences of "[pron] were not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I were not , I would be considerably put out at having been compelled to tidy my desk ! ’ he said . |
| 2 | The years 1945–5 I were not a period for new ideas , but for remedial action . |
| 3 | But of course , five years difference meant that he and I were not relating as equals until I was about sixteen , and then the war separated us . |
| 4 | It seemed that Ellen and I were not the only ones to take such a precaution , for late that night Jackson Chatterton lumbered on deck with a bottle in one huge hand . |
| 5 | She wrote : I thought it would be less embarrassing for the children if I were not here . |
| 6 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 7 | Once , my partner and I were not allowed to play on a vacant court , just because my friend had a brown sweatshirt on , and there was a veterans doubles match on the next court — we might put them off by playing on the vacant court ! |
| 8 | 1 openly support the FDR-FMLN and feel that it would be an opportunistic attitude on my part to expect to act as a spiritual leader of my people after the triumph of the revolution if I were not working with them at this crucial time . |
| 9 | Montaine and I were not similar in any obvious way , but Jean-Claude may well have detected in me something of the quality he relied on in his sister . |
| 10 | I felt I must keep a very firm hold on myself if I were not to lose control altogether . |
| 11 | Almost as if I were not there … |
| 12 | Wu and I were not us — not in any way . |
| 13 | ‘ If I were not able to give you pleasure , ma petite , and thus give myself great happiness , then the fault would be mine , ’ Félix said , smiling once more . |
| 14 | " If I were not willing to aid our dear uncle , it would be a strange day indeed ! " |
| 15 | ‘ I should explain that Matt and I were not lovers in the accepted sense ; we were friends — good friends , we 'd known each other from childhood so we had a lot in common . |
| 16 | So we had to obey all her orders , and Joseph and I were not allowed to scold her any more . |
| 17 | If I were not so big my mother would place me across her knee and spank me . |
| 18 | as if I were not one person as I had always thought , but divide very simply and cleanly into two — the erotic and the maternal . |
| 19 | We were now climbing fairly steeply into the mountains and silence was impossible if I were not to lose my quarry . |
| 20 | ‘ Charles Wood and I were not aware of the problems when we wrote the scene , ’ he recalled . |
| 21 | Her mind was self-referring and exclusive as theirs were not — impersonal only in relation to the teasing-out of the intellectually taxing problem . |
| 22 | For example , Christine Horton ( 1989 ) told the conference she regretted that many aspects of policing had a symbolic role which were not conducive to quantitative measures and were difficult to present with absolute objectivity . |
| 23 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 24 | Alun Evans , secretary of the Welsh football association who doubles up as chairman of the UAU committee , said : ‘ I was informed by the chairman of the UAU rugby committee that he was discussing the possible sponsorship of its championship and I received a copy of a proposal … it contained a number of features which were not acceptable to the union and it was therefore with great surprise that we learned a launch for the sponsorship had been called and it was decided that the union could not agree to this action . ’ |
| 25 | The paper quotes documents which suggest the pilot learnt that the French authorities had received several bomb threats against UTA 's African flights which were not passed on to him . |
| 26 | The ‘ TV revolution ’ started modestly enough with small screens and black-and-white pictures , which were not able to follow a match with the fluency , play-backs , close-ups , and other techniques that have made sport increasingly a ‘ televisual ’ phenomenon of late . |
| 27 | Men have kept women out of sport except as helpers for those aspects of club life like dances and teas which were not segregated . |
| 28 | Today the Government , of course , still denies legal responsibility — presumably to frighten off any other claimants — but will dispense £150 million of taxpayers ' money to com pensate investors of both the Barlow Clowes UK fund and the Gibraltar based international fund ( which is n't covered by the Department of Trade 's writ and which offered rates of interest on allegedly gilt-edged stock which were not possible with out tax avoidance ) . |
| 29 | Mr Mesic had the votes of Croatia , Bosnia , Macedonia and Slovenia , which were not enough for a majority . |
| 30 | They concern data which were not published in the original paper , but which Dr Imanishi-Kari gave to an NIH panel in order to support her published claims against Dr O'Toole 's criticisms . |