Example sentences of "[was/were] not the [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 2 | But it was not the Federation 's decision . |
| 3 | Whether or not that was the intent of the regulations — and I am willing to believe that it was not the Minister 's intent — that has been the net effect of the way in which the three-week period was cut off due to the way that the regulations were tabled . |
| 4 | It may be the highest summit but it was not the year 's highlight . |
| 5 | On security issues Meckel maintained during a debate in the Volkskammer ( unicameral parliament ) on April 26 that membership of NATO was not the government 's aim , and would be conditional upon a change in the structures of the Western Alliance . |
| 6 | Lewis replied that that was not the Government 's intention , nor was it ‘ committed or pledged to the adoption ’ of any of the competition designs . |
| 7 | On Dec. 21 , however , the Minister for Lands , Agriculture and Rural Resettlement , Witness Mangwende , sought to reassure the white farming community that it was not the government 's intention to " grab land " for the resettlement programme . |
| 8 | It was not the Church 's policy to execute the members of noble families retrieved from Jeopardy 's clutches . |
| 9 | It was not the American 's day . |
| 10 | Other members argued that it was not the EC 's fault if Britain paid more money than others under the terms of membership , and there were bitter arguments before a temporary ( three year ) settlement of the issue was reached , at the Luxembourg summit of April 1980 , when Britain got some repayments . |
| 11 | In response , Pat Arbor , the chairman of the Board of Trade , said it was not the exchange 's fault that it had been duped by Stotler 's doctored financial records . |
| 12 | But it was not the earl 's death that had sent these influential couriers of de Burgh riding hard across country to Parfois , it was the fall of the coveted prize into the hands of Richard of Cornwall . |
| 13 | He was not the wife 's solicitor and yet , in the view of the Privy Council , he had come under a duty to safeguard her interests . |
| 14 | R was not the LA 's function to do the planners ' job . |
| 15 | It was not the committee 's function to recommend release , but inevitably the committee would attempt to set a date at which there would be a reasonable prospect that the local review committee and then the Parole Board might be able to recommend release . |
| 16 | It is worth noting that it was not the Committee 's objective to assert directly the primacy of English over classics , but instead to capture for their subject some of the cultural authority invested in classics for an altered social and educational purpose . |
| 17 | It was not the Committee 's understanding , nor , I am sure , was it in the Under-Secretary of State 's heart , that those crucial regulations would be bodged together with the uprating statement so that there would be insufficient time to discuss them . |
| 18 | Equally , it would be no defence to the charge of insulting behaviour founded upon , for example , handing out leaflets seeking to persuade soldiers to desert that it was not the leafleter 's intention to insult , so long as the leaflet was in fact insulting , and the person distributing it was at least aware that it might be regarded as insulting by the person to whom it was addressed . |
| 19 | Besides , it was not the general 's assassination so much as that of the emperor a year later which was vital . |
| 20 | He was not the bank 's agent . |
| 21 | Bridget concealed her pregnancy from everybody until she was about four months when she told her boyfriend , who was not the baby 's father . |
| 22 | It is thus a defence to show that the reason for the alleged act of discrimination was not the plaintiff 's disability but rather an inability to perform the work in question . |
| 23 | This was not the Manager 's idea , nor anybody else 's around him . |
| 24 | The Party 's leaders were held up to the public 's scrutiny ; it was not the Party 's fault that some , those with speech defects in particular , failed to receive the customary standing ovation after their speeches from an enthusiastic conference , or that others , standing some way up the ladder of promotion , were pinched for drunken driving . |
| 25 | It was not the falcon 's nesting site , John wisely keeps all such eyries a closely guarded secret ; Scotland has more than its fair share of egg stealers . |
| 26 | It was not the UN 's fault that heavily armed SWAPO guerrillas violated the Namibian peace deal in its first hours by crossing the border into the territory ( see page 75 ) . |
| 27 | Yet the UN ideals embodied in the Charter still retained respect and moral authority because most people knew it was not the UN 's fault that the Security Council was paralysed . |