Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The southern colonies , in the islands or on the American mainland , offered tobacco and other products that could be exchanged for English exports or help the London re-export trade , but the agricultural products of New England were similar enough to those of England to mean that there were not many openings for trade , and this meant that the differences caused by religion were not healed by close commercial relations . |
| 2 | This was not a toxic effect of treatment with DMJ , as cell viability and even proliferation were not altered by DMJ or DNJ as judged by trypan blue exclusion and by counting cells from treated and untreated cultures . |
| 3 | Mr Dalglish , who was angry that his side were not awarded a penalty for a first-half tackle by Madden on Wilcox , said later : ‘ The only person who did n't play was the referee and because I told him so he says he is going to report us . ’ |
| 4 | Stirling had about 65 per cent of the play , yet Kenny Milne , the Heriot 's captain , admitted that never at any stage during the game had he felt his side were not going to win . |
| 5 | He may have lasted the full 90 mins … but the opposition were n't making life that difficult for him ! ! |
| 6 | The official results of the May 11 contest were not expected until June , and then had to be endorsed by Congress , but , with an estimated 86 per cent of the votes counted , unofficial tallies showed Ramos leading his closest rivals , Eduardo " Danding " Cojuangco and former judge Miriam Defensor Santiago , by a comfortable but not extensive margin . |
| 7 | But the towns of the south-west were not allowed to move very far towards the autonomous , quasi-republican institutions either of Languedoc or of Flanders . |
| 8 | Humility and displays of emotion were not considered unkingly . |
| 9 | But the demands these placed on industry were not imposed from outside but were the result of a scale of priorities which placed international responsibilities ( or illusions ) before domestic economic reform [ Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 10 | There were two bases on which he could have been convicted , either that the jury accepted that he had fetched the knife from his home , or , alternatively , that he had obtained the knife during the struggle but that they were satisfied that the essentials of self-defence were not made out . |
| 11 | English Electric were not building trams by this time , and the new cars had to be ordered from a railway wagon builder , Roberts of Wakefield . |
| 12 | Englefield managed to claw a goal back , but 'Mill were not finished and Hadden completed the scoring with a cracking shot . |
| 13 | The Revenue has raised an assessment charging tax in excess of £20,000 and has refused retirement relief on the sale of the milk quota because no land was sold ; farming continued after the sale ( in the Revenue 's view the provisions of s 53(2)TA88 mean that when a farmer changes the nature of his farming there is a continuation of the old trade and that the old and the new are equally applicable for CGT purposes ) ; the sales of the herd and milk quota were not effected at the same time . |
| 14 | Although Giles 's suggestions concerning the judiciary were not adopted , his report served as the basis for police reform . |
| 15 | This meant that couples who had married across the religious divide were not allowed to adopt at all . |
| 16 | The sources from which the children could find information enabling them to make fullest use of the church study were not confined to what they saw in the booklet nor what they could see and think out for themselves ; a number of people , both inside and outside the school , were enthusiastic and available for consultation . |
| 17 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 18 | Our Investigation Department were not dragging their heels in this respect and had already pulled off several coups as a result of painstaking groundwork with contacts abroad and in the UK . |
| 19 | In addition , measurements of prolonged squeezing were not recorded in the two studies where biofeedback was reported to be as effective as conventional medical treatment . |
| 20 | No doubt if such a condition were not written into the Act , the trial judge and the House of Lords would have regard to the significance of the adoption of the procedure for litigants and to their wishes in exercising their respective discretions to grant a certificate or leave to appeal . |
| 21 | For the inspectorate tended to initiate a prosecution only against firms who had ‘ unsatisfactory attitudes ’ ; others whose violations were seen to stem from adverse economic circumstances , or from some other extenuating condition were not prosecuted . |
| 22 | At that time , the principal issue was that of regulating territorial claims to the continent ; mining and mineral extraction were not seen as likely economic options . |
| 23 | Yetserday it was rvealed that an investigation into West mercia police will look into claims that fifteen hundred leads on the murder were not followed up properly . |
| 24 | The T-connectors from Sage were n't reinforced and the cabling was cheap . |
| 25 | In addition the rewards from this additional investment were not forecast to occur until 1986 . |
| 26 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 27 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 28 | It also restated downward — although not drastically , previously reported results for fiscal years to June 1992 and 1991 , to reflect the fact that customers that bought Sequoia gear were not required to pay for some kit until it was resold to end-users . |
| 29 | When this tour was announced I wondered why Catherine Wheel were n't taking the top spot on this bill considering their higher media profile . |
| 30 | Many of the officials in Moscow who approved of the experiment were not qualified to weigh up its dangers . |