Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [was/were] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I was not saying I see people elbowed in the face 200 times a week . |
| 2 | ‘ However , when I managed to make the break I was not going to give it away . ’ |
| 3 | Well , fine for her but that meant that the rest of us had to share her night duties out amongst us , and in our present state of tension we were not giving three hearty cheers for extra work . |
| 4 | He emphasised that in dismissing McCrory 's application for judicial review he was not imposing a ban on the wearing of poppies in prison . |
| 5 | In 1517 David Cecil took a 21-year lease of land in Essendine at a rent of £18. 3s. 3d. ; not being the freeholder he was not mentioned in the muster , and there is no means of telling whether his global assessment of £46 at Tinwell embodied the profit of this farm which he very possibly sublet . |
| 6 | The subject known , broadly , as Science , was at first her favourite , because she liked playing with Bunsen burners : at home she was not allowed even to switch on the gas fire . |
| 7 | Many scientists were well-read in theological writings , and thus when in 1875 Stewart and Tait produced The Unseen Universe they were not doing anything very much out of the ordinary . |
| 8 | The schedules proved to be acceptable , Their major drawback was length , perhaps inseparable from comprehensiveness , and the fact that in this exercise they were not integrated with normal agency practice and statutory six-monthly reviews . |
| 9 | Mum said that as a Christian She was not going to write me a note when there was n't anything wrong with me and that I was to remember that we Christians are the light of the world . |
| 10 | Q. You were not involved ? |
| 11 | I 'm sure that when you adopted your working together slogan you were not thinking that it included employers . |
| 12 | Perhaps the lack of self-confidence led the woman to marry a man she knew to be unsupportive in case she was not asked by anyone else . |
| 13 | For the first year in-country I was not employed . |
| 14 | ‘ Piper , it 's a bloody good job you were not wearing your kilt last night during the patrol . ’ |
| 15 | That gave the Cork girl a lead she was not to surrender . |
| 16 | Eggs were always in short supply and I suppose the reason was that during the war we were not getting our usual supply from Denmark and the Low Countries , owing to the German occupation . |
| 17 | Funeral or no funeral they were not taking any chances . |
| 18 | After retirement they were not milked by the heavy rates previously levied by the high spending Cleveland County Council . |
| 19 | Her guests might have preferred to drink their tea on the verandah outside , since at that moment it was not raining . |
| 20 | It just occurred to me that this was the day I was not meant to see ’ |
| 21 | The main substance to their complaints was that at £26 a ticket they were not receiving value for money . |
| 22 | Catholics and Protestants united to raise over 4000 troops for the English defence , although in the event they were not needed . |
| 23 | No pair coped better with the 38 degree heat or searing , unyielding surface than Jean de Saget and Cecile Pastre in their 2CV christened James Bond who established an early hold on the race they were not to relinquish . |
| 24 | This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled . |
| 25 | Although many boatmen 's wives acted as crew they were not recognised as such and could not get compensation for injury or sick pay . |
| 26 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 27 | The beauty spot brings back horrific memories for the couple ; memories of a night they were not meant to survive . |
| 28 | In Sri Lanka Sinhalese-Buddhist cultural nationalism was linked with other grievances and was sometimes expressed through rioting , but in the absence of élite leadership it was not channelled into demands for constitutional concessions from the British . |
| 29 | In the event it was not going to be Auguste who gave this information but Naseby 's own sergeant , who burst in with the news that the Cowes harbour master had telephoned to announce the arrival of the yacht Osborne with the Prince of Wales aboard . |
| 30 | As a Nonconformist he was not admitted to the BA degree until 1857 , the first dissenter to be admitted . |