Example sentences of "not [adj] were " in BNC.

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1 Charges against two other individual defendants had been formally dismissed by the judge on Sept. 30 , 1991 , while on Jan. 30 , 1992 , verdicts of not guilty were returned by the jury at the direction of the judge in respect of all three corporate defendants .
2 Children whose first language was not English were excluded from the sample .
3 The old nursery block had been taken over temporarily as part of the laundry , and the children who were not sick were maintained in a ward on the female side .
4 A few more war damaged cars and non-standard cars for which spare parts were not available were moved into Purley depot .
5 The areas for which data are not available were excluded by specifying that values less than zero should not be shaded but should be left blank .
6 Those schools which were not satisfied were asked to give examples of the constraints which limited provision and , apart from time , those most commonly mentioned in the primary sector related to the low priority given to health education when compared with other developments , and to the lack of a specific school policy .
7 Even people who were n't British were calling out my name .
8 Well I mean these were the kind of jobs that were n't replaceable were n't they really ?
9 and they were n't disposable were they ?
10 No you were n't sick were you ?
11 Hello baby we were n't long were we ?
12 they were n't laughable were they ?
13 The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel .
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