Example sentences of "not [vb infin] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | during the same period the results which I feel I did not achieve were … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | that the people he did not see were ‘ normal ’ ; and |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Those who did not work were better off , therefore ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | None of the children who did not recover were receiving medical care for symptoms of constipation at the time of follow up . |
| 14 | Students who could not attend were able to obtain the examiners ' notes , which highlighted the main points of each talk . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Finally , ministers who could not agree were sent before a ‘ Star Chamber ’ of non-spending ministers or ministers who have ‘ settled ’ . |
| 18 | Even excluding the admittedly ‘ popular ’ works included in what is a random list , many of the volumes I did not find were by authors who were represented by other titles . |
| 19 | He cracked jokes she did n't think were very funny . |
| 20 | No , because things come up unexpectedly , so things will become urgent that maybe you did n't think were important , but have just suddenly emerged . |
| 21 | She makes me discover things in myself I did n't know were there . |
| 22 | Two days of dieting completed and you 've found muscles in your body you did n't know were there . |
| 23 | They exposed strengths and weaknesses they did n't know were theirs . |
| 24 | We had that well she 's claiming for loss of earnings , think she 's broke a leg , we do n't know were n't allowed to take a photo bike she had a brand new . |
| 25 | The unlucky ones who did n't drown were eaten by crocodiles in the water , and by scorpions and snakes if they reached the shore . " |
| 26 | The Kwanggu prints moved me to tears , and to wish that all the people who did n't vote were made to view these simple but powerful images . |
| 27 | We never had a phone in that cottage , so the words I could n't hear were never spoken . |
| 28 | Or had a child who acquired a severe stomach upset after eating berries form the garden , which you did n't realise were dangerous ? |