Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 2 | Our analysis was based on internal comparisons , and selection bias would be introduced only if the relation of head circumference and ponderal index to death from cardiovascular disease differed in those who were or were not traced . |
| 3 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 4 | These had been voluntarily sold to the Nazis , or were not repurchased by the owners who had sold them under duress , or were part of the estates of Dutch citizens who died during the war leaving no heirs . |
| 5 | Dietary iron intake was measured by a prospective seven day diary record of weighed and estimated food intake in patients who had not changed their diet before the first attendence or were not admitted for investigations to be performed . |
| 6 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
| 7 | Maybe they all wanted a rest , or did n't rate the £550,000 prize-money , or were n't offered a skins ' game as an enticement to attend . |
| 8 | The information was n't either was n't available to him or was not understood by him and he was n't able to interpret it for the board . |
| 9 | It is well settled law that the exercise by the Court of its discretionary power to validate a post-petition payment does not turn on whether the company was or was not damaged by the payment . |
| 10 | Firstly , homosexual conduct , although no longer subjected to criminal penalties , except when it occurred in clearly defined public circumstances , would continue to be viewed as morally reprehensible ; and secondly , the move did not imply a relaxation of control over homosexual behaviour or was not intended by its main supporters to imply such a relaxation of control . |
| 11 | Information sources ? — which either went by a different name or was not recognised at that time . |
| 12 | Shock , do you understand the difference between the loss of pressure and loss of volume , volume would be when liquid was leaking out , coming out of the blood vessels , okay , pressure would be when the heart itself , the pump itself had failed or was not working properly , failed completely or was not working properly , do you understand the difference ? |
| 13 | Shock , do you understand the difference between the loss of pressure and loss of volume , volume would be when liquid was leaking out , coming out of the blood vessels , okay , pressure would be when the heart itself , the pump itself had failed or was not working properly , failed completely or was not working properly , do you understand the difference ? |
| 14 | Lord Morton of Henryton commenting on that example said that in each case it would be for the Commissioners to make a finding as to whether the income in question was or was not paid to or for the benefit of the child by virtue or in consequence of the settlement . |
| 15 | Table 3.1 reveals that the OR was not restored after the retention interval when exposure to the test context filled the interval — habituation of the specific response to the light must therefore have survived the retention interval . |
| 16 | ( a ) Unregistered land Recitals to a conveyance can be very useful , not only to describe briefly the reason for the deed but also to recite additional information which , owing to the provisions of s45(6) of the Law of Property Act 1925 ( the section providing that a recital 20 years ' old shall be sufficient evidence of the truth of the fact recited unless proved to the contrary ) , might not be readily available later ( for instance , because a copy marriage certificate is mislaid or was not abstracted ) . |
| 17 | On another occasion he gave chase to someone running down the platform but when he reached the platform end whoever it was or was n't had vanished . |
| 18 | At the , at the last search , at the last highway committee , although were not having , having , having the , the full service at the envisage in the first instance , a lot is going to be done , is going to be some more erm shelters directed there and one or two other facilities and somebody has even suggested that we put a toilet there which is a very good idea . . |
| 19 | They seemed angry with the therapist although were not saying this openly . |
| 20 | But their importance was overlaid by the less formal and increasingly numerous letters of the type found in the state papers , the Privy Council 's register , and private collections : letters that conveyed information , advice , admonition , and informal orders ; documents that were not bound by the rigid formularies of legal requirement . |
| 21 | Would she ever have any memories that were not bound up with Fen ? |
| 22 | I once taught a student who claimed to believe in Satan but thought that demons were used by the biblical writers as a means of explaining the sources of diseases and mental illnesses that were not understood in modern medical terms . |
| 23 | ‘ Then the twenty-five ships from Denmark sailed over to Siward 's ships and took aboard the men from the wrecked ships , and greeted the ones on the three ships that were not damaged , and , led by the three ships , set sail across the mouth of the estuary . |
| 24 | Mrs Tate has a contract with the Ismay Gorton Gallery covering all works that were not exhibited before my father 's death . |
| 25 | While new organizations may possess a strong commitment to a new policy , and may have powers that enable it to bring together the resources for its implementation that were not possessed by any single previous organization , it still has to relate to a world in which other agencies have a great deal of power to influence its success . |
| 26 | These are questions that were not asked during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century nation-building experiences in Europe and the United States . |
| 27 | There would be an infinite number of finite remainders that were not determined by the theory . |
| 28 | W in the estimates will you have will have received , we have made provision for some additional costs that were not covered by the original quote , the new weapons for example , were not covered in the original quote so they will be covered in the new programme cost . |
| 29 | Since the subjects in Study 2 did not expect a recognition phase it was clearly not sufficient to simply repeat the study without subjects making any judgments , instead judgment tasks had to be found that were not related to risk and were still sufficiently engaging for subjects not to suspect a memory test afterwards . |
| 30 | Gastro-oesophageal reflux of gas resulted in a peculiar manometric pattern consisting of repetitive peristaltic pressure waves that were not related to swallowing . |