Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VOLPONE : 'Fore heav'n , a brave clarissimo ; thou becomest it ! pity thou wert not born one . |
| 2 | Koch 's attempt to promote immunity with extracts of the organism ( tuberculins ) were not crowned with therapeutic success . |
| 3 | Some panel members believed that decisions taken by the Children 's Panel were not implemented by the Social Work Department , and therefore threatened the independence and integrity of the Panel . |
| 4 | Utilitarian ideas such as codification and the setting of fixed punishments for specific offences were not implemented . |
| 5 | Other multi-way trees were not implemented due to increase in search times ( e.g. B-trees , section 3.2.3.1 ) over the 26-way tree . |
| 6 | Ministerial caution and the General Election of 1964 ensured that these proposals were not implemented . |
| 7 | But their explanations of the deterioration of national physique in terms of the reckless breeding of the unfit , and their policies of forced segregation of degenerates and the issuing of marriage certificates , were not implemented . |
| 8 | This was perhaps the main single reason why changes in teaching methods were not implemented . |
| 9 | Inter-word boundary effects were not implemented for the first prototype . |
| 10 | But they were not nabbed , and the warning was extended by a week . |
| 11 | Notice that A1 , M1 , M2 and M3 were not called upon . |
| 12 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 13 | Before we start Scottish questions , I remind Members from Scottish constituencies that , as is my practice , I shall seek to call those who were not called last time and give them some preference . |
| 14 | Often the clerks would accept no more cards after midday , and even then those whose cards were taken in close to that hour were not called up until near midnight . |
| 15 | The effects of the error were not rectified until 1888 , when the Commissioners agreed that the vacant appointment should be filled by a nominee from " the Magistrates for Lancashire meeting at Manchester and qualified as ex officio Poor Law Guardians of the Board of Guardians for the Union of Stockport . " |
| 16 | Councillors were not kept informed of the deals either . |
| 17 | Some of my best writing has been lost in this way , for I have reason to suppose that the letters were not kept , not even in an old shoe-box . |
| 18 | Moreover , Zuwaya and Magharba thought that their larger groupings were temporary : activated to demand compensation , they then relapsed into the noumenon , leaving households to go about their business ; revenues from taxes were not kept in a fisc , but allocated to household budgets — and so on . |
| 19 | Pledges to check expenditure were not kept ; indeed , it continued to rise , as did the district rate , a fact that was conveniently blamed on the unfortunate legacy of labour 's investment programme , but was due rather to the desire of the Alliance to extend municipal enterprise and trading , particularly in tram-ways and electricity . |
| 20 | Brightly-coloured uniforms and gleaming breastplates were not kept for the parade ground , but were meant to be worn in battle . |
| 21 | They were not kept waiting , the train coming in exactly to schedule . |
| 22 | The villages were patrolled by company uniformed ‘ policemen ’ whose ‘ duties were primarily concerned with the maintenance of the appearance of the village , keeping the lawns tidy and litter off the streets , for example ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 98 ) , but Waller 's respondents also reported company ‘ policemen ’ who watched over children 's play , recorded untidy properties ( ‘ It seems clear that the threat of dismissal was thought to hang over men who did not keep their gardens tidy in several villages ’ — p. 100 ) , and ensured that dogs were not kept as pets ( thus preventing the men from engaging in the popular contemporary sport among miners of training and racing greyhounds and whippets ) . |
| 23 | The treaty had promised the restoration of their Scottish inheritances to Beaumont and the other disinherited ; but these promises were not kept . |
| 24 | They were not kept in suspense for more than five minutes . |
| 25 | Er everything depending on the the the the work of the farm would come to a standstill if erm if the horses y if they were not kept in good condition , they would n't be strong enough to keep on going every day . |
| 26 | Formal minutes of the various meetings and appraisal interviews were not kept , although informal personal notes were sometimes made by members of the Senior Management Team . |
| 27 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 28 | The report accuses DTI staff of taking decisions on the basis of telephone conversations , of which written records were not kept . |
| 29 | However , on some of the older machines , stocks of major component parts were not kept and had to be ordered from Italy ; hence the instances of four-weeks-plus deliveries of certain components that was highlighted on the television programme . |
| 30 | It was held that as he had only paid to avoid seizure of his goods and never voluntarily nor intending to give up his rights to the sums paid nor to close the transactions , he was entitled to recover those payments which were not barred by the Statute of Limitation . |