Example sentences of "were not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These rallies , which were not infrequently marked by violent clashes with communists , reminded many people of Hitler 's Nuremberg rallies . |
| 2 | The Tuileries gardens were not infrequently decorated by electric lights and the palace itself , when there was a state ball , added electric lamps to the exterior illuminations . |
| 3 | It would also be surprising if the problems for which we have developed such services , be they , in our case , radio isotope testing , or information retrieval software , or computer systems for stock or other control , were not equally recognized by competitors and people in other fields of business . |
| 4 | But these distinctions and considerations were not expressly addressed in the Convention 's negotiating process and so do not feature explicitly in its text . |
| 5 | The meetings were informal and were not normally based upon consideration of specific statistical or financial reports , being instead discursive , impressionistic and somewhat gossipy . |
| 6 | They remained so throughout the nineteenth century and were not normally trusted with public office . |
| 7 | They were not normally used on the Sutton route , but had to use the depôt for overhaul facilities . |
| 8 | In Japan , there had been criticism that Japanese officials were not adequately consulted during the Gulf crisis . |
| 9 | A system of means tested assistance would be necessary as a ‘ safety-net ’ for the minority whose needs were not adequately covered by the scheme . |
| 10 | The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor . |
| 11 | ‘ Clients were not adequately informed about the permanent nature of the operation in over 40% of the centres ’ Joint World Bank , WHO , SIDA , Government review of sterilisation in Bangladesh , 1983 |
| 12 | German towns were not adequately equipped with clergy or churches ( Berlin in 1880 had churches for only 25,000 worshippers ) . |
| 13 | Environmental groups also called for measures to protect the rights of forest peoples , which were not adequately addressed in the report . |
| 14 | The disparities between rich and poor were becoming greater and they were not successfully justified in the official media . |
| 15 | The 1984 Kirklees Report showed that ethnic minority clients were not well represented among CAB clients at the time . |
| 16 | Clegg has examined the reasons for this in the early 1930s and suggested that employers were not well organized at this time and that there were fewer jobs being lost in the early 1930s than in the early 1920s . |
| 17 | The ‘ Thorneycroft Proposals ’ were not well received by the Americans , but they were prepared to consider them . |
| 18 | Mark 's quarterly reports which highlighted the plant problems were not well received by the Chairman — according to his personal staff . |
| 19 | Such images , it may be surmised , were not well received by the nobility , who continued to commission portraits of conventionally austere appearance . |
| 20 | Yet even his findings were not well received by the financial community . |
| 21 | The majority of interviewees were not well informed about the services provided by the CSSU , and , partly as a consequence , the services were considered to be inadequate . |
| 22 | Consumers , the report found , were not well informed regarding risks to health , and the mounting practice of eating raw fish was described as " disturbing " . |
| 23 | An important clue was his reading of Malthus on population , which allowed him to see that the ‘ struggle for existence ’ caused by population pressure would act within the species , killing off any individuals who were not well adapted to the conditions and allowing only the ‘ fittest ’ ( i.e. best-adapted ) individuals to survive and breed . |
| 24 | Although in retrospect it might seem a vain hope to disguise ourselves as a motor yacht , we were not well known in the area and there were , after all , quite a few converted HDML 's about in those days , so we removed a few obvious identification marks from the ship including our uniforms , flew the red ensign and settled down to wait . |
| 25 | The details of his work were not well known within the US embassy in Rabat . |
| 26 | In 1951 in four widely read newspapers — two national dailies ( Daily Mirror and The Times ) , the national Sunday ( Sunday People ) and one evening paper ( the London Evening Standard ) — there were only two cases reported which were not also covered by the News of the World . |
| 27 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 28 | Guide books from the mid-twelfth century to " The Wonders of Rome " ( Mirabilia Urbis Rome ) began to pay attention to the pagan monuments and were not just guides to the tombs of the martyrs and the saints . |
| 29 | But they were not just pawns in the political game : students had their own ideas which will be addressed in this chapter on Chinese students in mid-1980s . |
| 30 | There is also a suggestion that in Britain the elaborate chambered tombs and long barrows , and such structures as Newgrange in Ireland , were not just used for burial but for other purposes as well . |