Example sentences of "[was/were] not [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small bank at the bottom of Chalk Hill , over which hole 3 is sited , had harebells , clustered bellflowers and small scabious — all delightful blue flowers which were not seen elsewhere on the course . |
| 2 | After the ‘ great event ’ they were not seen again in the church until the next ‘ rite of passage ’ came along . |
| 3 | These important phrases were not defined anywhere in the law . |
| 4 | The tests developed by the project team were not related specifically to the curriculum operated by the schools associated with the project but they were based almost exclusively on the topics in the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 5 | I find it almost incredible that the men taking part in the tests were not monitored regularly throughout the rest of their lives , if only for scientific and not humanitarian reasons . |
| 6 | Such ideas , however , were not based entirely on the critics ' response to what was on display ; rather , they derived from opinions about O'Keeffe and her art that had been formulated by Stieglitz and his circle of friends and published before 1923 . |
| 7 | A small number of patients were not contacted further on the advice of their general practitioner , usually because of concurrent malignant disease . |
| 8 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 9 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 10 | Where reefs are notably wider than the average it may be assumed that there the corals were not killed off during the Pleistocene . |
| 11 | However , it was also claimed that feminism and gender issues were not treated seriously by the senior management . |
| 12 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 13 | In group F were to be found young children ( average age about 10 ) who sat , when they were not moved off by the police , on the wall in the front of the terrace , overlooking the dry moat . |
| 14 | Mr Lamont claimed , in an optimistic message to the nation , that the ‘ self-denigrating myths ’ of Britain 's decline as an industrial nation were not borne out by the truth . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the predictions of this very simple hypothesis were not borne out by the facts of subsequent experience . |
| 16 | Third , information will be gathered on factors within higher education which are considered to create problems in expanding Arabic studies , as these were not analysed systematically in the Parker Report . |
| 17 | Of these 1746 types ( 1121 tokens ) were not stored explicitly in the lexicon ( ignoring numbers and formulae ) . |
| 18 | After washing , twist taps were not turned off with the paper towel ; and where elbow taps were available , they were used properly only four times ; and when disposing of the paper towel in foot-operated pedal bins , nurses used their hands to open and close the bins . |
| 19 | Moving closer , Jehan saw that the ends of the rods were not attached directly to the wheel , but rather to the shaft upon which it was mounted . |
| 20 | Their rivalries were not washed away by the flows of commerce and finance . |
| 21 | We conclude that rocks of the Cordillera Blanca were not derived directly from the mantle or slab . |
| 22 | But he said they went back up after a picture request from the Bootle Times , and were not removed again till the next day . |
| 23 | For the first time they were not photographed together for the cards . |
| 24 | The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it . |
| 25 | During debates in the House , the offending Mapplethorpe photographs were not brought on to the floor lest they offend the ‘ decorum ’ of the House . |
| 26 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 27 | Most of these newer techniques of systems analysis and design have in fact been with us for some time , but were not brought together until the publication of the above texts . |
| 28 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ I want to know from the Chancellor why the Ministerial rules were not observed ; why the Law Officers were not informed immediately of the legal action which cost the taxpayer £4,700 ; whether the Prime Minister was consulted as the rules suggest he should be — and whether the permanent secretary to the Treasury was told about the source of the gift of the £18,000 . ’ |
| 30 | Although parachutes were not used again by the SAS in North Africa , training in their use continued right up to the end of the campaign . |