Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | For three separate periods I have taken up quarters , each time for several weeks , where I was not known , and as a lodger have shared the lives of people … |
| 2 | The applicant had to sign agreement to a statement that confirmed he or she was not less than eighteen years of age , and they understood that the bank reserved the right to decline the application without being required to state any reason , and that no correspondence would be entered into in those circumstances . |
| 3 | From the adult position it will be clear that he or she was not in fact guilty of anything but that someone in a position of strength and power was taking advantage of his or her vulnerability mentally as well as physically . |
| 4 | It is that a person who takes another 's car ‘ can escape liability to tougher sentences only if he or she can show , on the balance of probabilities , that either the aggravating event occurred before he or she committed [ the basic s. 12 offence ] , or that he or she was not present at the relevant time . ’ |
| 5 | Either the Director was empowered not only to pose questions but to compel an answer , or she was not . |
| 6 | An accident may happen — such as when a sufferer form alcoholism takes a sip of a drink that he or she was not aware contained alcohol — and this would not even be termed as a sip . |
| 7 | But for the average home-owner to find good taste cheaply , displayed informally , and feel certain that he or she was not making a mistake because it was already arranged and coordinated , was quite new to Parisians . |
| 8 | A child was classified as being temporarily absent if he or she was not in the compound when visited at least three times during a week . |
| 9 | For a moment , Sara argued with him , and then seeing he was not going to leave the room unless she went with him , unwillingly she followed him out . |
| 10 | Twice , when he had run out of ideas , he had driven the little Triumph out of the district to a coffee shop where he was not known , and had sat drinking coffee and talking to the men next to him at the counter , surprised to find himself accepted as a member of the grown-up world . |
| 11 | After being diagnosed as HIV positive he was transferred to the Craigavon Hospital , Craigavon , Armagh , where he was not involved in any surgery . |
| 12 | Where he was not active , he at least had guilty knowledge . |
| 13 | In other cases , where he was not present , we know that he was contradicted by contemporary sources . |
| 14 | ( 23 ) above expresses a favourable reaction to the fact that the speaker happened to find friendship where he was not seeking it . |
| 15 | After being diagnosed as HIV positive he was transferred to the Craigavon Hospital , Craigavon , Armagh , where he was not involved in any surgical practice . |
| 16 | Apart from the coal areas , where sympathetic strike action was strongly evident , and the rural areas , where it was not , the rest of the country displayed immense diversity . |
| 17 | In general , Labour seemed relatively to suffer from high poll tax levels even where it was not in control of the council . |
| 18 | It is the danger of imposing reason and order where it was not always present . |
| 19 | This policy caused great hardship in villages where it was not possible to grow enough rice for the needs of the residents . |
| 20 | In most cases this was slander but I have seen instances where it was not far from the truth . |
| 21 | Although quite early in World War I both sides moved underground into elaborate trench systems , there were areas where it was not possible to dig deep trenches . |
| 22 | But their view on how this should be achieved was quite different : correction was to be an applied science whose goal , where feasible , was to be the rehabilitation of individual offenders ( where it was not feasible , segregation or elimination , for the protection of society , was to suffice ) . |
| 23 | This came to an end during the Seven Years War ; and although it was refounded in 1775 it seems to have been designed merely to produce men capable of filling such relatively minor posts as those at Warsaw and The Hague , where it was not necessary for the Prussian representative to be of high social rank . |
| 24 | He also took tapings from Jacob 's hands and from his head , where it was not a mask of blood . |
| 25 | The trouble was that ( where it was not already part of tradition ) the introduction of piece-work was often resisted , especially by the skilled men , and that it was complex and obscure not only for the workers , but for employers who often had only the haziest idea of what production-norms to set . |
| 26 | Goulding J found as a fact that all parts of the sales information had been used for the purposes of the defendant 's business and he divided information into three categories where it was not the subject of any express provision : ( 1 ) Information which because of its triviality or public accessibility was not confidential at all . |
| 27 | I served for two years , 18 months of which where in Egypt , during the so called Middle East Crisis , where it was not unusual to be sniped at , almost daily , by an unseen enemy who did n't always miss . |
| 28 | The writer of this extract may have felt that she or he was paraphrasing rather than plagiarising , and might point to the reference made in the extract to Leech and Short as evidence that she or he was not being dishonest . |
| 29 | Put it this way : in Danu , even with FAKINTIL on the way out , with my history it was like I possessed a personal qualification : doctor , lawyer , accountant , except I was not one of those but a traitor . |
| 30 | Although I was not fortunate enough ever to see him in the flesh , I suggest that his picture should be tattooed on the brain of every aspiring judge . |