Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dave were not to take part in the cabal ( ‘ I 'm a member of the Party , but that 's all ’ ) , what was he doing later on that evening ? |
| 2 | In the general improvement of the clergy , canon 18 of the Fourth Lateran Council declared that henceforth clergy were not to take part in the pronouncement of the death penalty , to fight or duel , or to perform surgery which involved cutting or burning . |
| 3 | Recent calls by the Home Office Minister , John Patten , for those who are successful to give three hours a week to voluntary causes could be taken more seriously if overall government policy were not pushing people in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | Similar proportions were not seeking work at the time of the survey . |
| 5 | Twelve per cent of students were not seeking employment at the time of the survey ; |
| 6 | Mr Major rejected the appeal and insisted the donations from Nadir 's companies had not been illegal , even though they were not made public at the time . |
| 7 | Iraq replied with a denunciation of the allied bombing of civilian targets , and the declaration that , as the allies were not providing information on the true level of their air losses , it was impossible to treat all captured airmen as prisoners-of-war . |
| 8 | Thirdly , the Upazila Health Complexes were not given funds for the collecting of the ORS packets from the storage centres , thereby reducing the incentive for the Health Complexes to use the stores to their full potential . |
| 9 | In the course of a statement to a congressional committee on Jan. 23 Greenspan said that such comments were not putting pressure on the Federal Reserve , but were merely statements that lower interest rates were preferable to higher ones . |
| 10 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 11 | In Germany , they were not allowed access to the main stations . |
| 12 | Government statistics show that the February 1993 seasonally unadjusted figure for unemployment in Scotland stood at 257,092 : 85,000 unemployed were not claiming benefit in the four weeks before the Government 's February figures , but were also seeking work , according to the Labour Force Survey . |
| 13 | Mr Rushdie also met federal parliamentarians in Ottawa , and although he was not granted time with the Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , he said that his reception by the External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall encouraged him to believe that Canada was firmly behind the campaign to get the death sentence lifted . |
| 14 | Voice of Lebanon radio reported on June 24 that Gen. Aoun had told Scheer that he was not demanding amendments to the accord , but simply a reconsideration of some of its provisions . |
| 15 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said he was not throwing Ironside to the wolves at Molineux : ‘ Ironside is 28 , not 18 , and has played a lot of games . |
| 16 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said he was not throwing Ironside to the wolves at Molineux . |
| 17 | He stressed , however , that he was not seeking confrontation with the military . |
| 18 | I was glad that she was not taking part in the Mini Marathon though the Lantern Workshop looked fun . |
| 19 | The law was not to take effect until the end of March . |
| 20 | THIS was a first-rate match , full of incident and controversy , which was not done justice by the goalless scoreline . |
| 21 | The purpose , he says , ‘ was not to give succour to the victims of harassment , but to polarise the ethnic minorities and the police . ’ |
| 22 | In acknowledgement of British decency , it must be said that Gandhi possessed the supreme advantage in his campaigns of knowing that , so long as he confined his activities to non-violent protest , he was not risking death at the hands of the authorities . |
| 23 | Meanwhile she was not to set foot outside the door , as a plague of field-mice infested the estate . |
| 24 | I said I was not commencing duties until the next day as my girlfriend worked in Richmond and I had arranged to see her , which I had , by phone . |
| 25 | November of that year , a son was born to Queen Victoria , named Edward , but he was not to become King until the beginning of the next century . |
| 26 | Prussia 's pre-eminence was institutionalised in that the King of Prussia was ex-officio the chairman of the Bundesrat , but this was only as titular Head of State , not head of government : in all matters Bismarck was keen to stress the federal , decentralised aspects of the constitution , both to reassure the smaller states that they were not being swallowed up and also to convince Prussia that she was not losing sovereignty to the supranational authority either . |
| 27 | The entry clearance officer ( ECO ) said he was not satisfied that the primary purpose of Mr Hussain 's intended marriage was not to obtain admittance to the UK . |
| 28 | The difficulty for the thieves was not to gain possession of the animal , but to arrange for its profitable disposal . |