Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] were not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal held that residential occupiers were not a class for the purpose of the offence of harassment created by the Rent Act 1956 ( McCall v Abelesz [ 1976 ] QB 585 ) . |
| 2 | Appearing before the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee on March 18 Shamir said that the Golan Heights were not a subject for territorial negotiation . |
| 3 | Such matters were not the concern of a Khan . |
| 4 | I 'm glad to say that in the Navy such luxuries were not a part of our conditions of service , and when I was ordered back to Germany in 1949 I had no option but to return . |
| 5 | Domestic pets were not a part of Irish life ; animals were worked , not cosseted . |
| 6 | All this was intended to demonstrate to the king of France that these officials were not the king-duke 's accredited representatives , but merely the delegates of his seneschal . |
| 7 | These observations were not the result of intestinal stricture or bactrial overgrowth . |
| 8 | The Revenue has subsequently responded that these costs did not fulfil the requirements of s 84(1) of ICTA 1988 , arguing that these fees were not an expense of the trade but ones which put the client in a position to carry out his trade , being akin in their opinion to home to business mileage . |
| 9 | Imaginary bears were not the essence of the matter . |
| 10 | But the caustic critics were not the majority . |
| 11 | The report focussed particularly on universities which were constructed at a time when long-lasting buildings were not a priority . |
| 12 | For both spot and futures returns , there was no significant autocorrelation , suggesting that stale prices were not a problem for the index . |