Example sentences of "not [noun pl] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | To most serious naturalists ( and the term ‘ biologist ’ , coined at the beginning of the century by Lamarck and Trew , took long to come into use ) , relationships which were not affinities were not really of much interest . |
| 2 | Bones thus describes the effect of Rastafarian speech on Jamaican attitudes : " Those Jamaicans who were not Rastas were somewhat ashamed of Patois . |
| 3 | Disputes , both before and after 1381 , were concerned with questions of rents to be paid and services to be performed , or with whether or not individuals were free men or villeins . |
| 4 | Those who were not Christians were even more exposed to the belief that the dead might continue to harbour feelings , including , perhaps , feelings of resentment for injuries suffered in life . |
| 5 | It would be a complete misunderstanding to discuss this argument as though it were dependent on empirical facts about whether or not myths were the product of one person . |
| 6 | This was the case whether or not calculi were present at the time . |
| 7 | The size of each household depended upon the stage of the life cycle that the occupants had reached and upon whether or not adolescents were living-in as servants or apprentices . |