Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Either the Director was empowered not only to pose questions but to compel an answer , or she was not . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I wanted an apology and I was not given one . |
| 11 | Afterwards he simply said : ‘ It was my biggest achievement yet and I was not at all disappointed as I did something that I thought was beyond me . |
| 12 | We were talking about a point and I was not even particularly annoyed . |
| 13 | If the driver had seen that I was hurt , he would have stopped , and I was not up to explaining why I could not accept a lift . |
| 14 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 15 | He was older , bigger and possibly stronger than Jerry — and I was not around . |
| 16 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 17 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 18 | Such falsities are quickly forgotten , and I was not too worried by the press response as long as the actual details of the National Curriculum remained in my control . |
| 19 | £45,000 was the asking price and I was not surprised that the sale , so to speak , hung fire . |
| 20 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 21 | I believe her , I trust her and I was not bewitched by her green eyes , owing to the fact that I was on duty at the time . ’ |
| 22 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 23 | There was only one post for part time senior registrar training in general medicine in the whole country , and I was not successful . |
| 24 | I had never seen a happy jogger and I was not ill . |
| 25 | Without meaning there is only suffering , and I was not going to leave it at that . |
| 26 | The kitchen was not done because the local authority could not produce the money until I was a tenant , and I was not a tenant until the builders had finished . |
| 27 | ‘ I was just going out then and I was not coming home until nearly 7am . ’ |
| 28 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 29 | But shortly afterwards , er , I was in confrontation with the chairman the basis of my contract with was such that it was not to his liking and I was not prepared to give way in the matter and was dismissed within six months of the acquisition of by . |
| 30 | Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse . |