Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granada 's defence that the words were not intended to refer to the plaintiff and would not have been so regarded by reasonable viewers was rejected by the jury , after hearing that the officer had received " unpleasant and damaging " comments afterwards . |
| 2 | More recently some Universities and Polytechnics developed courses for ethnic minorities — but these when they were focused on developing multilingual skills were not intended to lead to a specialism in minority languages but simply to serve support strategies which fall far short of teaching the languages as such . |
| 3 | They were not equipped to deal with a progressive condition , they were not that kind of establishment . |
| 4 | On April 9 the then Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Abdul Rahman Abdallah as Awadi said that elections were unlikely to be held before August or September 1992 due to the continued absence of an estimated 400,000 Kuwaitis ( including " second category " citizens ) who had left the country during the Iraqi occupation and who were not expected to return before the end of 1991 . |
| 5 | The first shipments were not expected to arrive in the country until the autumn . |
| 6 | As in World War I , deaf persons were not permitted to serve in the armed forces , yet there were thousands of able-bodied deaf men and women who could be used to serve their country in a civilian capacity . |
| 7 | The children were allowed no breakfast , the younger two were not permitted to go to the bathroom , and none of them was allowed to take a single personal possession , not even a teddy bear or something to be a link with home . |
| 8 | A statement of law based upon facts which either were not found to exist in the case or were found not to be material to the decision . |
| 9 | Similarly , in Bowes v Sedgefield DC [ 1981 ] ICR 234 the defendants were not allowed to rely on a statutory defence at trial which they had not pleaded . |
| 10 | These included cigarettes , because they were not allowed to smoke in the Institution . |
| 11 | Phelpses built boats , maintained boats , became champion scullers , taught the gentlemen how to scull , and bowed and doffed their caps ‘ below stairs ’ at the clubs before the war when watermen were not allowed to drink at the bar . |
| 12 | The local musicians who had been brought in to entertain us were not allowed to perform in the guest-house , so we provided our own ( less professional ) entertainment by singing and reciting poetry . |
| 13 | Once , my partner and I were not allowed to play on a vacant court , just because my friend had a brown sweatshirt on , and there was a veterans doubles match on the next court — we might put them off by playing on the vacant court ! |
| 14 | ( Pathfinders were still supposed to be something secret , and photos of that giveaway gilt albatross were not allowed to appear in the Press . ) |
| 15 | The subjects were studied in the semirecumbent position and were not allowed to eat during the study . |
| 16 | B. T. We had to make sure — it was the strictness on our part — that gangs were n't allowed to gather on the corner . |
| 17 | W. R. You were n't allowed to talk to a girl in my time . |
| 18 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 19 | you would n't you still were n't allowed to go to the funeral ? |
| 20 | That 's like some boys done in my school and they got caught and then they were n't allowed to go to the disco . |
| 21 | You were n't allowed to punch on the break . |
| 22 | But er I used to go I did n't eat with the men you were n't allowed to eat with the men you see , it was only the full men that sat round this table well |
| 23 | How did you how your m mother er come to terms with the idea that you were n't going to go to the county school ? |
| 24 | They were n't going to settle for the one goal . |
| 25 | She was glad they were n't going to stay at the farm , though . |
| 26 | They were nt looking to get behind the defence at all . |
| 27 | In addition Barker showed that total hydrocarbon yield was not related to rank in the bituminous materials . |
| 28 | Ms Weldon , a member of the committee who was not asked to sit at the hearing , described the video as a serious attempt to deal with the bride of Christ notion . |
| 29 | The decision by a court that a particular situation was not intended to come within the ambit of a statute , though within its words in what may be their most obvious meaning , does not deny the supremacy of Parliament , for if Parliament disagrees with the decision it can pass another Act dealing specifically with the type of case . |
| 30 | Yet in practice this view was not extended to take in the case of gender : the advances made as a result of the critique of behaviourism and pluralism did not go on to question the assumptions and mechanisms that continue to define politics as the affair of men . |