Example sentences of "was not on " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , in a cosmopolitan place , racism was not on the agenda . |
| 2 | Her doctor had told the jury she was not on the pill and knew of no tests . |
| 3 | The judge said that the officer was not on trial for being a ‘ faithless husband , womanising in his motor car or for breaching police regulations ’ . |
| 4 | Although Pretoria said the release of Mr Mandela himself was not on the agenda , that decision appears to be his own . |
| 5 | When he discovered their attention was not on him he went back to his books . |
| 6 | When it was taken up with the Headmaster he said that the boy 's name was not on the roll , they did not know of him . |
| 7 | Southwell 's all-weather meeting last Wednesday was not on the original fixture list and neither is today 's , but we will be covering meetings there on November 14 and 21 because there were ordinary jump meetings already scheduled . |
| 8 | TIMING was not on the side of Thames Television yesterday as it unveiled the £57million purchase of American TV production house Reeves . |
| 9 | DeFries was not on the road , I was not on the road and I think David began to feel very abandoned by this company MainMan . |
| 10 | DeFries was not on the road , I was not on the road and I think David began to feel very abandoned by this company MainMan . |
| 11 | Inevitably this meant that the tax-credit system proposed by the Heath Government was not on the agenda and nor were some of the more ambitious income-guarantee schemes which inevitably required reform of taxation and social security being taken together . |
| 12 | London was not on the way to somewhere else . |
| 13 | His name was not on the passenger list . |
| 14 | However , it was not on the priority list of 20 rivers singled out for urgent action by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 15 | Mr Blair said the leadership was not on the agenda , adding : ‘ Mr Kinnock had a brilliant campaign . ’ |
| 16 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 17 | As a failure , if failure it was , the lift was not on its own . |
| 18 | O'Donnell , the reporter , had realised that Wells was not on the list of witnesses and wondered why . |
| 19 | But she was not on the tour , so I had to grin and bear it . |
| 20 | As the song was not on any album or on any previous release , failure seemed impossible . |
| 21 | Like many previous reports , including the Cleveland Enquiry , the focus was not on whether children had been abused , but on whether ‘ proper procedures ’ had been followed . |
| 22 | I once bought a mill house from a family in Cumbria , and during my survey found that a part of the land they were selling did not legally belong to them since it was not on the original conveyance from the lord of the manor . |
| 23 | Lord Scarman 's inquiry was not on the same scale as the famous Kerner Report in 1968 on the US riots , but since the publication of his Report in November 1981 his views and prescriptions have played an important role in fashioning political debate about the riots . |
| 24 | Another mile revealed a track going up to the plateau and a sign pointing straight ahead to ‘ Hamouda ’ — a village which was not on any of the maps . |
| 25 | But the Prime Minister himself had compiled the circulation list and Sir Edward 's name was not on it . |
| 26 | Despite the repression practised by the Somoza regime in Nicaragua , its legacy of under-development was not on the same scale as that left by some 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique . |
| 27 | The moment I saw the church , although there were considerable differences — the main and obvious one being it was not on a hill — I accepted it as my church . |
| 28 | However , as it was not on the list submitted to Angell and Pownall for examination , his design was probably never tested for its practicality or compliance with the conditions , and must have been brought to the lay judges ' attention after the assessors had completed their work . |
| 29 | If it was not on asbestos paper it should have been . |
| 30 | This probably accounted for the fact that she was not on duty at the theatre as much as she should have been and was very moody when she was there . |