Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether his books were or were not weighty , he thought for himself , and was no man 's copy . |
| 2 | So often , it was claimed , local government was not the voice of the local community — election turnouts were derisory , elections were fought on national rather than local issues , and many voters were council employees ( with , therefore , a vested interest in greater spending ) , council house tenants ( with an interest in subsidized rents ) , or were not ratepayers at all . |
| 3 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 4 | Now I realise that millions of people do not read The Guardian , or missed that column on that day , or were not interested in the question . |
| 5 | I have no doubt there are many things you wish they did n't do , or were not , but there must be some good points ! |
| 6 | Gandhi and Nehru , Mandela and Mugabe , or for that matter the late Zulfikhar Bhutto , who complained about the absence of a sense of Pakistani nationhood , are or were not nationalists in the sense of Landsbergis or Tudjman . |
| 7 | as if the children had n't heard her or were not aware of her presence , they all ran back towards the side of the house , and there they stood as a group , staring at the man with the short legs and the girl with hair that looked almost white , walking towards their mother . |
| 8 | These had been voluntarily sold to the Nazis , or were not repurchased by the owners who had sold them under duress , or were part of the estates of Dutch citizens who died during the war leaving no heirs . |
| 9 | We can only speculate about how accurately respondents were ( or were not ) able to differentiate between these two categories and if they were differentially interpreted by men and women . |
| 10 | Given that so much of the enthusiasm for ‘ law and order ’ in Britain has been marshalled by the Conservative Party during the late 1970s , a simple impression of how different things were ( or were not ) twenty years ago can be gleaned from the business of Conservative Party conferences in the two periods . |
| 11 | Woolf did not use the word ‘ legitimacy ’ , but it is clearly the prison 's lack of legitimacy with inmates which he saw as of central importance : ‘ It is not possible for the Inquiry to form any judg-ment on whether the specific grievances of these prisoners were or were not well-founded . |
| 12 | Whether gossip , bickering and family feuds were or were not a more prevalent feature than a wholesome communion of the population could vary from village to village and is ultimately a matter of subjective judgement . |
| 13 | Our analysis was based on internal comparisons , and selection bias would be introduced only if the relation of head circumference and ponderal index to death from cardiovascular disease differed in those who were or were not traced . |
| 14 | I wondered what would count as an adequate educational response to individuals being labelled deviant , a response which would not simply take for granted that certain acts were or were not deviant but would look at the whole context of the interaction . |
| 15 | For Cindy Hill , things either were or were not . |
| 16 | that , that spoilt the course or were not relevant and they 'd forgotten about the relevant bits . |
| 17 | If you are not related by blood , or were not legally married to the deceased , you can not inherit from him or her if he or she dies without a will . |
| 18 | It is hoped to provide a convincing explanation of why such surrenders of so-called national sovereignty were or were not to the advantage of nations . |
| 19 | Speaking after a meeting with EC Finance Ministers in Luxembourg he envisaged that a smaller number of countries with low inflation ( France , West Germany , Belgium , Netherlands and Luxembourg ) would enter a European central banking system and that others who had not reached the same degree of economic convergence , or were not ready to give up sufficient sovereignty rights , would be invited to enter later . |
| 20 | Dietary iron intake was measured by a prospective seven day diary record of weighed and estimated food intake in patients who had not changed their diet before the first attendence or were not admitted for investigations to be performed . |
| 21 | The error log file , see figure 2.2 , will also detail the categories which were , or were not , transferred . |
| 22 | On a number of other key issues in the Middle East Anglo-American interests and priorities coincided or were not in fundamental conflict . |
| 23 | For example : In the event that any person or persons who was or were not a member or members of the Company on the date of the adoption of these Articles ( " the Acquiring Member " ) either alone or in concert ( as such expression is defined in the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers ) with any other person(s) , shall become beneficially entitled to more than [ 50 ] % of the issued Ordinary Share Capital of the Company after the date of adoption of these Articles he shall forthwith be required to serve notice on each of the holders of the Ordinary Share Capital of the Company that he is so beneficially entitled and shall thereupon be bound to offer to purchase the remaining shares in the Ordinary Share Capital of the Company at a price per share ( " the Acquisition Price " ) equal to the highest price per share paid by the Acquiring Member for such shares in the Company acquired by him . |
| 24 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 25 | The question of whether he was or was not John became the most important thing in my constricted universe . |
| 26 | As the argument began to centre on what was or was not ‘ damage ’ , the Commission pinned its definition to the yellowing of conifer needles . |
| 27 | However , both the photograph , caption and the subsequent text leave open the issue of whether Sellafield was , or was not , the cause of the elevated radiocaesium levels measured in Cumbrian sheep after the Chernobyl accident . |
| 28 | Table 3.1 reveals that the OR was not restored after the retention interval when exposure to the test context filled the interval — habituation of the specific response to the light must therefore have survived the retention interval . |
| 29 | He turned to his sons demanding to know whether there was or was not to be a baptism party that night , and whether or not I would be the only white present . |
| 30 | But , having said that , it is not or was not an issue at the forefront of British politics and in a sense you can say the whole nation was guilty in that way . |