Example sentences of "[was/were] n't [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was cleaks there was er cleaks in er in Most of the kitchens had rafters , a lot of them , and there was cleaks just specially for the hanging the pigs and the er the hams of the And then you left them until they were fairly dry , and then you had to cover them well and truly with a for all summer , because the fly would go for them , if the were n't properly salted and dry . |
| 2 | ‘ Ah , but these were n't — I mean , they were n't properly in the Prince 's harem . ’ |
| 3 | To everybody , I walked round the site with Paul and and Stuart last Friday because Paul had been whingeing to me about erm twenty five K G palletizing and the fact that they were n't they were n't properly packed as it were . |
| 4 | In court the prosecution said the accident happened because two out of four locking pins were n't properly secured . |
| 5 | They had little chance to defend themselves at their court marshal , they were n't properly represented and there was very little right of appeal . |
| 6 | And if they were n't properly done , you 'd tell the forewoman that that was n't in such and such a coach in compartment was needing under the seats were needing cleaning . |
| 7 | Erm for instance in the dockyards , erm where conditions were n't broadly the same as was prevalent for example say , in Brothers or or . |
| 8 | Though the hall was almost empty they were n't forward enough to go into the very front seats so they entered the seats three rows back , claiming two extra chairs with folded coats . |
| 9 | She had an English accent ; the English were n't normally health conscious , unlike the Americans , and they always took the lift . |
| 10 | you lose an intellectual argument because you were n't fast enough on your feet |
| 11 | If I could be absolutely sure that A and B were n't somehow mixed up in it all , I 'd be tempted to give it a go . |
| 12 | They were n't just head and shoulders better but chest and waist too . |
| 13 | They were n't just Maggie and Nevil any more , but a couple . |
| 14 | The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us . |
| 15 | But we did n't see any of that ; we did n't notice that , as O later put it , his eyes were n't just dark that night but almost blinded , blinded with grief . |
| 16 | But they were n't just ordinary straightforward pars . |
| 17 | Blushing suggested you were n't just lying , but that you had something to hide . |
| 18 | It was in the context not of an isolated individual saying it to another isolated individual , but actually feeling that this identity had a social location , a political and moral location , because it involved a whole series of things which meant you were n't just a voice crying in the wilderness . |
| 19 | These attitudes , unfortunately , were n't just those of pious Victorians ; their presence in many Christian homes today means that youngsters are growing up having to unlearn unbiblical and emotionally unhealthy ways of responding . |
| 20 | ‘ This time around I tried to write things that were n't just about me and my relationships . |
| 21 | ‘ My God , they were n't just hitting it sideways , some of them were n't even making contact . |
| 22 | The setbacks were n't just financial . |
| 23 | In those days cookery writers were n't just filling out their recipes with ingredients they were being paid to sell . |
| 24 | I had to keep reminding myself that the plans we 'd had were n't just a dream and that he had loved me . |
| 25 | Car journeys were n't just occasions for surveying the scenery . |
| 26 | What 'appened there on the first of June last year were n't just a tragedy , oh no . |
| 27 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 28 | They were n't just humming a chorus of ‘ North Sea Sunrise ’ , the jazz tribute to the industry which the Norwegian contractor Kvaerner commissioned for its reception at Aberdeen 's Beach Ballroom . |
| 29 | Mike Mann praised the site agents out in the field , saying that the accident figures achieved were n't just luck . |
| 30 | And then of course , the other characteristics that go with religion , and that he had emphasized in other books on Totem and Taboo , like guilt , the feeling that you ought to obey the moral commands of the parents , because after all the parents were n't just benevolent entities who looked after you and rewarded you and praised you , but they were your judges and censors as well . |