Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] not [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Despite the preparation of various position papers between 1943 and 1945 the United States was not organised for the task of governing Korea . |
2 | ‘ I heard on good authority that Albert Reynolds sent an emissary to the north to make sure it was understood that Spring was not speaking for the government . |
3 | The Kerry Group Irish Champion Stakes lost one of its biggest draws yesterday when Rodrigo de Triano was not entered for the Group One race at Leopardstown on Sunday . |
4 | Inter-word boundary effects were not implemented for the first prototype . |
5 | Matters were not improved for the defence when the trial judge refused Mr. Small 's application for the judge to look at the January statement for himself pursuant to section 17 of the Evidence Act . |
6 | The Dialogue was not published for the benefit of transvestite amateur countertenors : Mopsa 's part in it was aimed at young ladies . |
7 | Russia took 75 per cent ; Moldova and Ukraine would finance in full the troops on their territories and participate in financing joint forces through absolute contributions ; Tajikistan , Kirgizstan and Turkmenistan were not paying for the upkeep of troops on their territory . |
8 | Thus the company responsible for the hoist accident at Littlebrook Dee power station were not prosecuted for the fact that five men died , but for the fact that the machinery was not properly maintained or inspected . |
9 | Apparently matrimony was not permitted for the servants . |
10 | But in a statement to an inquest in Bishop Auckland yesterday , Jacob Blenkinsop , of Northam Close , Stainton Park , Middlesbrough , said truck driver Ian Burrige was not to blame for the accident near Sedgefield on March 5 . |
11 | Brightly-coloured uniforms and gleaming breastplates were not kept for the parade ground , but were meant to be worn in battle . |
12 | IMF boss Michel Camdessus praised Germany 's tough policies and insisted that its interest rates were not to blame for the chaos . |
13 | I am sure their bodies were not designed for a two- or three-week period out of the fifty-two weeks in a year , however important that period may be . |
14 | Strong and prescient words , yet Marsh was not calling for a halt to all human interference . |
15 | It may at least be surmised that such a role was not envisaged for the CNAA by university representatives in the discussions which led to its being proposed and established' . |
16 | Oliver wondered why Angelina was not clamouring for a new vote in order to support her fiancé and decided that this was some further infamous plan on her part . |
17 | This method has also shown that a similar pattern of damage was caused to the DNA in human cells for the complex 9 whereas damage to intracellular DNA was not detected for the complex 10 ( 9 ) . |
18 | It said a lot for the captain himself that his team remained confident in themselves even when results were not going for the Scots . |
19 | The African bush was not place for an antelope which had acquired a taste for imported peanuts and strawberry yoghurt . |
20 | Yet history records that the nation was not waiting for a programme of national reconstruction . |
21 | One of Jacob Rothschild 's first decisions as Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund was not to acquire for the nation the most comprehensive collection in England of naive art shop signs , weather vanes , country furniture , marine samplers and quilts , made between 1750 and 1900 offered by dealer/collector Andras Kalman . |
22 | The Doctor was n't going for the bait . |
23 | The tone of voice was gently musing , but Guy was n't fooled for a minute . |
24 | After a loud exclamation about the electricity being back on , I was informed electricity was not needed for the phones to work . |
25 | In In re Midland Railway Co. 's Agreement [ 1971 ] Ch. 725 there was no ‘ clearly expressed bargain ’ that the term should continue until the crack of doom if the demised land was not required for the landlord 's undertaking or if the undertaking ceased to exist . |
26 | However , the company was not prosecuted for the fact that four people died , but because the machinery was not properly maintained ; they were fined £5,000 . |
27 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
28 | The Republic 's Foreign Minister Dick Spring yesterday insisted that Dublin was not pressing for a US envoy ‘ for the present ’ . |
29 | She expected him to keep looking over his shoulder to make sure that all the fuss was not intended for the man behind . |