Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He supervised the exercise of common rights by the forest inhabitants , seeing to it , for example , that cattle were not pastured in the forest beyond the period allowed by the Forest law , and seizing animals illegally pastured there . |
| 2 | Almost 900 single GKM giants/supergiants in the Bright Star Catalogue were not detected in the X-ray survey ; these were well distributed over the H-R diagram ( Fig. 1 , top panel ) . |
| 3 | Radionuclides in particulate form such as strontium-90 , uranium isotopes , and plutonium were not detected in the environment and would either have been retained in the fuel or , if released from the fuel , would have remained in the coolant water . |
| 4 | Helmets exemplified this ‘ new status ’ for ‘ real polises ’ , for they were not worn in the city force , but were part of the apparel of the surrounding Northumberland County force , whose immediate boundary was only some three miles north of our divisional centre . |
| 5 | As soon as he was selected , Bill Galbraith , a Tory local , announced that ‘ bloody niggers ’ were not wanted in the town . |
| 6 | Assessments of less than £1 were not made in the subsidy , and nearly all below £2 were based on wages , except for a few based on income from land ; and since the statutory proviso , doubtless intended to allay fears raised by the inquest of 1522 , restricted taxation to one form of wealth only , any personal property belonging to persons so taxed was ignored . |
| 7 | I should say that the markings on the copy you 're receiving are mine , they were not made in the context of this discussion . |
| 8 | The proportion of the unemployed identified by the survey who were not registered in the period 1978–81 is shown in Table 3.4 . |
| 9 | On the whole , they were not favoured in the allocation of regional selective assistance where there was an element of discretion on the part of the Department of Industry . |
| 10 | Electoral alliances were not favoured in the Party , and the radicalism of local Labour Parties was of a different character from Liberal radicalism . |
| 11 | The occupants , a couple , and their two children , were not injured in the blaze . |
| 12 | They appealed by way of case stated , submitting that the patient was not ‘ unlawfully at large ’ and the police officers were not entitled to use reasonable force to enter the premises and were not acting in the execution of their duty . |
| 13 | The argument was that in this instance , the police were under no obligation to assist a person to eject a trespasser from his premises , and hence were not acting in the execution of their duty when the constable was assaulted . |
| 14 | Consequently , it was argued , the police were not acting in the execution of their duty at the time of the arrests . |
| 15 | On enquiry the Inspector contends that as the transactions were not recorded in the accounting records in March 1991 , no cognisance can be taken of the dividend , and he is therefore seeking to raise a s 419 assessment . |
| 16 | Despite these drawbacks the mid-year estimates undoubtedly provide an invaluable source and Champion ( 1987 ) concludes that for monitoring population change in England and Wales between 1971 and 1981 they may well be superior to the census ; Scottish estimates , however , he considers less accurate because they were not revised in the light of 1981 census results . |
| 17 | The reasons for the distinction were not given in the Panel 's official statements , but appeared in a newspaper article , which explained that ‘ the difference was that Forte had conducted valuations to ensure that the value of its property had been maintained or increased … |
| 18 | It was a machine particularly suited to the fast production of newspapers , and as has already been noted , women were not employed in the composition of daily papers , largely because of the Factory Acts . |
| 19 | Additional expenditure on these businesses to the date of their disposal were not reflected in the Group profit and loss account , but were applied to reduce the carrying value . |
| 20 | No hostage was released , the excuse given by Ghorbanifar being that Iran did not really need the TOW missiles so they were not counted in the exchange deal . |
| 21 | Where , for example , a tenant covenants " to keep in repair the demised property and the windows , window frames , boilers and air conditioning plant " it might be successfully argued on his behalf that he is not liable to repair the doors because they were not mentioned in the catalogue . |
| 22 | She once admitted that she would have loved a career in politics and believed she was now being forced to draw upon all her native political skills to ensure that her design ideas and her control over image were not submerged in the drive to reduce the debts . |
| 23 | As far as air quality is concerned , it must be stressed that significant improvements were not expected in the absence of considerable shifts in modal split . |
| 24 | Equally importantly , it would be wasteful to industry as a whole if questions of economy and efficiency were not identified in the course of audit work . |
| 25 | Neurones in the myenteric plexus were not identified in the colon and were sparse and appeared degenerate in the appendix and ileum . |
| 26 | In Bermuda I took a room at the Belmont Manor Hotel in Warwick county and was interested to see the notice informing guests that gentlemen were not permitted in the dining-room for dinner without a jacket and tie . |
| 27 | We also reject Urquhart 's claims that population thyroid exposures due to the presence of tellurium-132 and molybdenum in the release were not considered in the board 's study . |
| 28 | Missing data were not considered in the analysis . |
| 29 | Experiments have shown that the shorter ( 14,769 item ) word list contains insufficient items for practical purposes ( i.e. the correct words were not found in the list ) , so search times for longer lists should be considered more important . |
| 30 | A curious but important feature of the PESC system was to define ‘ constant prices ’ as being those prevailing at the beginning of the exercise : they were not updated in the light of subsequent price changes . |