Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would enjoy it more , though , if he were not obliged to read at the same time , in the rear windows of other cars , crude reminders of a more basic sexuality . |
| 2 | On the plaintiffs ' appeal and the defendants ' cross-appeal on the ground that the plaintiffs were not entitled to object to the amount of any costs in the accounts unless the court had deprived the defendants of the relevant costs : — |
| 3 | APPEAL ( No. 6 of 1991 ) with leave of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda by the plaintiff , Horace Brenton Kelly , from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda ( Blair-Kerr P. , Roberts and Henry JJ.A. ) given on 30 November 1989 allowing an appeal by the defendants , Margot Cooper and Helen Cooper ( trading as Cooper Associates , a firm ) from the judgment of Hull J. delivered on 14 November 1988 in the Supreme Court of Bermuda ( Civil Jurisdiction ) , whereby he awarded the plaintiff $200,000 damages for breach of contract and made a declaration that the defendants were not entitled to commission on the sale of the plaintiff 's property , and the defendants ' counterclaim for commission was dismissed . |
| 4 | This is an appeal from a judgment dated 30 November 1989 of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda ( Blair-Kerr P. , Roberts and Henry JJ.A. ) allowing an appeal from a judgment of Hull J. dated 14 November 1988 of the Supreme Court of Bermuda ( Civil Jurisdiction ) awarding the plaintiff , Mr. Kelly , damages in the sum of $200,000 , declaring that the defendants , a firm of estate agents trading as Cooper Associates , were not entitled to commission on the sale of the plaintiff 's property , Caliban , and dismissing the defendants ' counterclaim for such commission . |
| 5 | They did not want success at all costs , but likewise they were not willing to jump off the pop escalator , or stand on the spot arguing among themselves . |
| 6 | Cripps and his supporters objected that the Labour leadership had failed to absorb the lessons of 1931 and were not Prepared to deal with the inevitable " sabotage " of the Labour programme by capitalist interests . |
| 7 | In fact , his cabinet colleagues , already unsure about public support for the bill and alienated from Dr Browne by his provocative politics , were not prepared to go against the hierarchy 's condemnation and refused to support the proposal . |
| 8 | Officially users were not supposed to go outside the centres ' grounds unaccompanied by staff without senior staff 's permission . |
| 9 | As many practitioners know only too well , many pleas in mitigation would hardly get off the ground if they were not able to point to the possibility of the accused losing his job if he were sent to prison or were to have his driving licence suspended . |
| 10 | We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected . |
| 11 | And even though it was obvious to many before the 1982 ballot that the miners were not ready to go over the barricades for a pay rise , the Left leadership could n't think its way out of its own economism . |
| 12 | We were n't due to leave until the afternoon but our moods started to match the weather . |
| 13 | ‘ You were n't prepared to listen to a word I had to say , were you ? ’ |
| 14 | Although the ANAP administration , which held 292 seats in the 450-seat parliament , was not obliged to go to the polls until November 1992 , the party was troubled by internal divisions and waning local electoral support . |
| 15 | It was not pleasant to feel like a mindless bore . |
| 16 | The Court said that it was not easy to see in the circumstances what other inquiries Savory Milln could have made . |
| 17 | It was not easy to think of a precedent , and one could be forgiven for concluding that the notorious obscurity of the poem came about not by the author 's design but accidentally , because the work was the product not of one mind but of two . |
| 18 | This sometimes occurs in certain environments and when asked how this could be rectified he said it was not viable to work on a computer of that age and invest in a new one . |
| 19 | Mr Adams was not available to comment on the call , but party press officer Richard McAuley rejected it and accused the MPs of ‘ playing politics with lives ’ . |
| 20 | There really was not much to do on the plane , you were able to listen to about six different channels on the radio , read , write or drink . |
| 21 | That , my Lord , the matter moves on to the fifteenth of October on which day er the plaintiff together with Mr attended Richmond Magistrates Court and obtained a protection order from the justices in relation to the premises and then on the sixteenth of October erm this was the day when things started to go very badly wrong for the plaintiff because Mr by now had returned from his holiday and come back cautiously , he apparently attended after his holiday and on this day Mr was told that , by Mrs that it was not possible to proceed with the financial er dealings that had been agreed between them unless the Frinton property was offered as security . |
| 22 | As a consequence , it was not possible to privatise in a way that put customers ' and consumers ' interests first because the overriding interest was the Conservative Government and ensuring maximum take up . |
| 23 | However , sometimes buyers can be required to give an undertaking to their building society to effect repairs as mentioned above and otherwise undertakings are used as a device to fulfil a commitment that it was not possible to fulfil before the completion date . |
| 24 | It was not possible to know from the data available whether this was the defendants ' choice or magistrates declining to try them . |
| 25 | But while her novels of this period — The Languages of Love ( 1957 ) , The Sycamore Tree , ( 1958 ) , The Dear Deceit , ( 1960 ) , and The Middlemen ( 1961 ) — are in many respects typical products of their generation , they raise a number of issues which it was not possible to articulate within the parameters of the contemporary debate . |
| 26 | I had already discussed with Roger Penrose the idea of defining a black hole as the set of events from which it was not possible to escape to a large distance , which is now the generally accepted definition . |
| 27 | Okay , Bellow , I knew , was not due to arrive till the end of the week ; but where the hell were Márquez , Lessing , Gordimer ? |
| 28 | It arrived just before he was leaving for the United States ( another example of his self-forgetfulness , as he had not mentioned this to me ) , and he was not due to return until the end of July . |
| 29 | The Queen was not due to return from a tour of the Far East until two days later . |
| 30 | This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms . |