Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were we were not looking for an exception to policy E two we were looking for a policy which complements erm I five . |
| 2 | Moreover , Zuwaya and Magharba thought that their larger groupings were temporary : activated to demand compensation , they then relapsed into the noumenon , leaving households to go about their business ; revenues from taxes were not kept in a fisc , but allocated to household budgets — and so on . |
| 3 | ‘ The bad effects of island driving on the long sentences were not caused by an increase in the number of false alarm seeds . |
| 4 | It should be noted that videos were not seen as a substitute for training but rather as a useful tool for the instructor . |
| 5 | The Act of 1918 set the scene of the entire political world between the wars , often through consequences that were not seen for a generation . |
| 6 | In the sham operated controls , acidophilic atypical acinar cell foci were not detected within an area of the pancreatic tail corresponding to at least 30000 counted points . |
| 7 | ( ii ) Trusts were not bound to a set form . |
| 8 | Contraceptive IUDs as such were not developed until 1930 by Ohta in Japan , and were not made in a form suitable for mass use until after the Second World War . |
| 9 | The millwrights and other inventors who were making these technical developments were not operating in a vacuum . |
| 10 | The showmen created an entertainment and annexed an audience in a spectacular initial burst , but , of course , they were not operating in a vacuum and there was one major hurdle that had to be overcome before their victory could be regarded as complete and of permanent rather than fleeting significance . |
| 11 | However , whilst there is no need to take account of the attributes of a particular contracting partner , if a business contracts with people of a particular class , the steps must be reasonably sufficient to bring the terms to the notice of a member of that class — in Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 , terms on a steamer ticket for carriage in steerage class were not incorporated into a contract because the defendant had taken insufficient steps to bring them to the notice of steerage class passengers . |
| 12 | We 've also in London , the London Region took , took tribunal for caretakers who were , who were not transferred from a school and we won that tribunal . |
| 13 | The medical advances cited by Dr. Botting were not developed as a result of animal research , but clinical investigations based on human studies were far more crucial to their development . |
| 14 | Can the Secretary of State confirm that , notwithstanding the encouraging programme that he has just reported , Nuclear Electric 's directors could not continue to pay the £1 million per day that it costs to continue the Sizewell B construction project if they were not covered by a letter of comfort from the Treasury , without which the company would be technically insolvent ? |
| 15 | Until well into the nineteenth century the nation 's coalminers were not regarded as a race apart , living and working in closely-knit communities dominated by the colliery 's winding gear and huge , ugly muck stacks , but merely as one of a number of groups of village craftsmen and labourers . |
| 16 | For one thing , the British people at that stage of history were not regarded as a nation still reliant on divine approval for their acts , and for another , they did not have any ancient writings purporting to endow them with territorial rights . |
| 17 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 18 | Although the BMA 's anxieties were not supported by a study carried out by the Department of Health 's Advisory Committee on Medical Manpower Planning and published in 1985 , the association 's policy did not change . |
| 19 | John Biffen , the former Leader of the Commons and Chief Secretary to the Treasury , said yesterday he found government policy ‘ confusing ’ , and party nerves were not calmed by a fringe speech from Sir Geoffrey Howe , the deputy prime minister , which echoed some of Michael Heseltine 's criticism on Tuesday of government policy and presentation . |
| 20 | Discussions of local government reorganisation in Wales were not conducted in an atmosphere of concern over population growth — quite the contrary . |
| 21 | Surprisingly , however , he found that sentences took longer to understand when they were preceded by a context than when they were not preceded by a context . |
| 22 | Under-fives services were not identified as a priority . |
| 23 | Although proceedings were not instituted as a result of Mrs Whitehouse 's intervention , she had nevertheless brought the book to the notice of the Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 24 | Again the terms were in a standard form , and were not negotiated as a result of the imbalance of bargaining power . |
| 25 | For this reason the Defense Department opposed the early conclusion of a peace treaty because of the basic uncertainties over Japan 's position at the end of the occupation : the generals were not attracted by an idea of Japan as an Asiatic Switzerland . |
| 26 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 27 | I am sure their bodies were not designed for a two- or three-week period out of the fifty-two weeks in a year , however important that period may be . |
| 28 | I had thought that if you were not following with a score to marvel at Rattle 's ability to achieve those dynamics so accurately , you would probably feel alienated until you arrived at the next big moment . |
| 29 | Their selves were not woven into a voice |
| 30 | There were complaints of inordinate delay such as to make a fair trial impossible ; that regulation 7 notices were served far too late ; that the police officers were not interviewed until a year later , that being the first time that they were notified of any specific allegations against them . |