Example sentences of "[was/were] not [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 2 | To Napoleon , the reduction of the monasteries and the abolition of the Inquisition were not part of a plan to reform and regenerate Spain but improvised responses to financial necessity and to the French idée fixe that rebellion was the work of monks . |
| 3 | But local department stores or specialist shops which were not part of a chain were used less by credit buyers than cash buyers , whereas fuel board showrooms were used more . |
| 4 | Moreover , since the 1788 petitions were not part of a movement pursuing significant change in the political system or attacking the range of government policy , the application of humanitarian and general interest criteria to a question of trade probably appeared relatively innocuous to those who were not directly involved . |
| 5 | The passages were not part of the ratio of the decision by which we are bound and with which I respectfully agree . |
| 6 | It dealt with Rastafarian spiritual entities such as Jah or with ganja ( marihuana ) which were not part of the skinhead scene . |
| 7 | This theory carries with it the implication that the cyclostome characters mentioned above were not part of the history of gnathostomes but were instead specializations restricted to lampreys and hagfishes . |
| 8 | They also include a couple of originals that were not part of the promotion , plus Jane Barry 's Casting ( Corgi ) for a light fun read , and Liane Jones ' The Dreamstone ( Mandarin ) for a glorious time-travel romance . |
| 9 | Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway . |
| 10 | The expenses and toils of a long war are but too just an excuse that the thought of a new library were not part of the public cares . |
| 11 | Sir , you will remember in the deposit , Skelton was inset , although these two fields were not part of the inset . |
| 12 | If these principles were not part of the staple diet of home life , the battle was ‘ already half lost ’ , no matter how skilled teachers , social workers or other professionals might be in making up the deficiency . |
| 13 | France were not part of the tournament in 1892 , and 100 years later I would be reluctant to predict precisely what their impact will be this time round , Villepreux or no ! |
| 14 | The Crown submitted that , even if the defendant 's approach be accepted , the defence could not exclude admissible evidence , even if proper notice of it had not been given , and further argued that Zaidie 's evidence ( confirmed by the defendant ) that an accident was not suggested in the telephone call to him was conclusive when taken with the incontrovertible circumstances of the shooting , thereby suggesting that the ‘ irregularities ’ were not material in the sense that the defence could have profited if they had not occurred . |
| 15 | That was , Lord Jauncey said , a clear undertaking by TBL not to exercise its statutory powers for a period that could last for as long as any one of the parties to the agreement remained a shareholder and long after the control of TBL had passed to shareholders who were not party to the agreement . |
| 16 | And even good food was not proof against the malignance that hung in the air , in the rotting soil , in the ill-washed vessels from which they ate and drank . |
| 17 | Mrs Alderley was not proof against the desperation of her tone . |
| 18 | And it was not Marxism for a number of reasons and this is almost certainly going to be very controversial so I hope that it will feed discussion in the , in the second half . |
| 19 | It was not income from the interest under the trust ( which would have been a foreign possession regardless of the underlying sources ) . |
| 20 | By all accounts Saturday 's display ( it was not desertion of the cause but prior engagements which made it impossible to be there ) from the mighty Quakers was slightly better than the previous innocuous effort . |
| 21 | Some reports suggested a death toll as high as 150-200 in Mali and perhaps twice that number in Niger , in what was increasingly described as a separatist rebellion , although other reports suggested that in Mali at least the objective of anti-government elements was not independence for the north-east but the overthrow of the government in Bamako . |
| 22 | The respondents avoid this difficulty by submitting that requiring and delivering the wrappers was merely a condition which gave a qualification to buy and was not part of the consideration for sale . |
| 23 | The appellants submitted that reimbursement of their outlays was not part of the consideration for their services , but the court did not accept that argument . |
| 24 | Each Saturday morning Eric would fly to Udine from Rome in one of the Desert Air Force bombers , in which he nearly froze to death , then hitch a lift from there to Verona — the huge Fiat was not part of the service . |
| 25 | The mother argued that the society could not rely on this defence as it was not part of the state . |
| 26 | The laughter swelled , and was supplemented by applause , which died away slowly as the crowd gradually realized that this was not part of the act . |
| 27 | According to information received by one of the councillors who contacted your office by phone the re-siting of the seat was not part of the contract . |
| 28 | It was not part of the Primary Needs Programme but the method was advocated through PNP INSET . |
| 29 | ‘ I know very little , ’ Lucien said , and was about to add , ‘ it was not part of the Vibrancy studies ’ , but remembered in time that that was a remark suitable only for Walterkin 's ears . |
| 30 | This was not part of the display , i hasten to add ! |