Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] were not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’ |
| 2 | Even in the nuclear family , women told me that certain jobs should never be done by a man , they were not Izzat wali kam ( i.e. jobs of honour ) or they were not manly , and predictably these tasks included almost all household chores . |
| 3 | None of these special Cabinet committees really did anything : it did n't matter a damn that people like Wedgie [ Mr Benn ] and me were not on SEP [ Steering Committee on Economic Policy ] or OPD [ Oversea Policy and Defence ] . |
| 4 | But of course , five years difference meant that he and I were not relating as equals until I was about sixteen , and then the war separated us . |
| 5 | It seemed that Ellen and I were not the only ones to take such a precaution , for late that night Jackson Chatterton lumbered on deck with a bottle in one huge hand . |
| 6 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 7 | Once , my partner and I were not allowed to play on a vacant court , just because my friend had a brown sweatshirt on , and there was a veterans doubles match on the next court — we might put them off by playing on the vacant court ! |
| 8 | Montaine and I were not similar in any obvious way , but Jean-Claude may well have detected in me something of the quality he relied on in his sister . |
| 9 | Wu and I were not us — not in any way . |
| 10 | ‘ I should explain that Matt and I were not lovers in the accepted sense ; we were friends — good friends , we 'd known each other from childhood so we had a lot in common . |
| 11 | So we had to obey all her orders , and Joseph and I were not allowed to scold her any more . |
| 12 | ‘ Charles Wood and I were not aware of the problems when we wrote the scene , ’ he recalled . |
| 13 | Special schools for mentally handicapped children now exist throughout Prior to the 1971 Act , the education of mentally handicapped children was governed by legislation dating from 1944 , which advocated a selective procedure to determine which children were considered educable and which were not . |
| 14 | She told me about the Sheikhas of Al Ain , which were good and which were not truly hospitable or kind . |
| 15 | Researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States and at the Medical Research Council Unit for Applied Psychology in Cambridge simultaneously identified the tasks sensitive to the effects of even one night 's loss of sleep as those which were not self-timed , which went on for at least ten minutes and which were not intrinsically motivating . |
| 16 | However , this does not take account of the importance of decisions and amongst the research families , there was widespread agreement about which decisions were important and which were not . |
| 17 | In contrast to Leavis 's haphazard approach of determining which writers were important , and which were not , literary theory was going to be rigorously objective . |
| 18 | What is persuasive in this case is a consistent series of answers given by the minister , after opportunities for taking advice from his officials , all of which point the same way and which were not withdrawn or varied prior to the enactment of the Bill . |
| 19 | It has become usual that there should be a generally drafted indemnity against all taxation liabilities arising from trading transactions prior to the last balance sheet date and which were not provided for in such accounts , or which arose from transactions outside the ordinary course of business since that date . |
| 20 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 21 | These were questions you should not have asked , and you were not answered ; but you heard that men were animals , and could not control themselves . |
| 22 | But it did not take your breath quite away and you were not turned upside down , which she hated . |
| 23 | Tell the truth , English , the thing that sticks in your throat is that we were successful and you were not . ’ |
| 24 | Also me feelings go to my english friends today — i watched some 30 mins of highlights on TV and you were not ex. lucky — Ronald Koeman ( correct spelling , guys ! ) should clearly have been sent off . |
| 25 | Doctor Gysi , also calling for ‘ social integration ’ of Stasi members , told the party 's congress : ‘ There were many honest comrades in the Stasi who loyally fulfilled their duties and who were not able to choose the tasks they were given . ’ |
| 26 | The Volkstag hardly met at all by this time , so those anti-Nazis who had not fled and who were not under arrest had no voice in the government of the city . |
| 27 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 28 | On April 9 the then Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Abdul Rahman Abdallah as Awadi said that elections were unlikely to be held before August or September 1992 due to the continued absence of an estimated 400,000 Kuwaitis ( including " second category " citizens ) who had left the country during the Iraqi occupation and who were not expected to return before the end of 1991 . |
| 29 | Persons who were merely unable to perform particular types of job and who were not really handicapped by their disability might be protected . |
| 30 | A letter was considered regarding a tutor whose students were not registered and who were not up to examination standard . |