Example sentences of "not [verb] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salt marshes , too , would not exist were it not for the tides . |
| 2 | Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information , Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service . |
| 3 | And not included were 40 charges which he had asked to be taken into consideration on that occasion . |
| 4 | The four ministers who were not reappointed were Alberto Jorge Triaca ( Labour ) , Humberto Romero ( Defence ) , Alberto Kohan ( Health and Social Action ) and Jose Roberto Dromi ( Public Works and Services ) . |
| 5 | In minutes he was dressed and looking for his signallers at the Dutch HQ , for as second in command of the Company he must warn headquarters and the platoons in their hill positions above the town , as well as contacting Sparrow Force , whom he did not know were under attack the same night . |
| 6 | Those animals not ransomed were usually sold cheaply to cultivators or butchers who knew full well the origins of the animal . |
| 7 | Although some of the animals stolen in the Northern Band were sold for agricultural use , especially in Chilaw and the Western Province , a high proportion of those not ransomed were sold for beef in the Roman Catholic villages on the littoral , and more importantly , in Colombo . |
| 8 | Instead cattle which were not ransomed were sent to Salpiti Korale in Colombo district , and cattle were also received from that area . |
| 9 | What the cameras did not show were the anonymous men mingling with the crowd , the sophisticated electronic surveillance devices , the hidden cameras monitoring the crowd , the concealed marksmen at vantage points above their heads . |
| 10 | during the same period the results which I feel I did not achieve were … |
| 11 | We can boast that changes not made were not necessary but without looking ahead and of course responding , we will leave our organization floundering and will lose out locally to others . |
| 12 | The six cases in which the client 's chosen outcome was not adopted were : |
| 13 | She stood in front of the mirror and in front of her mother , and she suffered because she knew that there was no escape ; the reasons why the dress would not do were reasons which could never be communicated . |
| 14 | Many people who were not needed were leaving Liverpool each evening to sleep in the woods at Huyton or at various halls and cinemas on the outskirts of the city , but Julia was too frail to be moved . |
| 15 | that the people he did not see were ‘ normal ’ ; and |
| 16 | What we did not see were any examples of pupil-centred enquiry methods being employed by teachers and using materials specifically purchased for this purpose with project funds , as predicted in the proposal documents . |
| 17 | Those who did not work were better off , therefore ? |
| 18 | Despite the heat , Ludovico 's passion had taken her to heights she had not dreamed were possible . |
| 19 | William Whitelaw believes , however , that there were no abstainers : the six who did not vote were either too far away to present themselves at Westminster , or they were ill . |
| 20 | Those who did not vote were : Hilary Armstrong ( Lab Durham NW ) , Nicholas Brown ( Lab Newcastle upon Tyne E ) , David Clelland ( Lab Tyne Bridge ) , Frank Cook ( Lab Stockton N ) , Tim Devlin ( C Stockton S ) , Michael Fallon ( C Darlington ) , Conal Gregory ( C York ) , Doug Henderson ( Lab Newcastle N ) , Ashok Kumar ( Lab Langbaurgh ) |
| 21 | One hundred and sixty Old Boys a very substantial proportion had volunteered before conscription was introduced , and many more thereafter , and the names of the fifty-two who did not return were to be recorded on the School 's War Memorial . |
| 22 | None of the children who did not recover were receiving medical care for symptoms of constipation at the time of follow up . |
| 23 | Students who could not attend were able to obtain the examiners ' notes , which highlighted the main points of each talk . |
| 24 | The FSE/SAM group had the highest proportion of never smokers ( 83% , 924/1113 ) , and the SAM group the lowest ( 74% , 732/989 ) ; the 148 pupils for whom smoking status was not known were excluded from the data . |
| 25 | The parents of the 33 children who had not recovered were interviewed a second time to answer the question whether the constipation/soiling problems had persisted or recurred , because we were not able to determine this from the initial questionnaire . |
| 26 | He said some people who found it difficult to pay for relatives ' funerals — due to redundancy or mortgage payments were offered payment by monthly instalments while others who would not or could not pay were pursued to the small claims court . |
| 27 | Stars could not shine were it not for particles — called neutrinos — that are so insubstantial that they have no mass at all and can travel right through a solid object like the Earth as if it simply did not exist . |
| 28 | The only people not involved were the crowd . |
| 29 | Women not admitted were markedly more likely to have a male family member consulted . |
| 30 | Finally , ministers who could not agree were sent before a ‘ Star Chamber ’ of non-spending ministers or ministers who have ‘ settled ’ . |