Example sentences of "[was/were] not [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judges in that case recognised that decisions of the stewards might affect the public but concluded they were not decisions in the sphere of public law . |
| 2 | They were contributors to a family wage rather than independent earners , but they were not members of a family unit of production . |
| 3 | Of the 78 members of the Constitutional Convention , 24 are new in the sense that they were not members of the Assembly , and of those 24 , 20 belong to the UUUC coalition . |
| 4 | The Minister 's choice was based upon an examination of the Registers of Exchequer , by which it appeared ‘ that the owners of much of the greater part of the property in the district interest themselves for Mr. Lapslie ’ , who accordingly obtained the presentation regardless of the fact that two of Lapslie 's supporters were not members of the Church of Scotland . |
| 5 | Such a move would probably be ruled out even if we were not members of the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 6 | To the waiters standing about it seemed to be perfectly stationary , but they were not members of the Chop Society and it was not their table . |
| 7 | The words in square brackets have now been repealed by the Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1982 , removing the anomaly which prevented local authorities from taking legal action under this section , in respect of odours affecting employees and others who were not inhabitants of the neighbourhood , despite being of the opinion that the odour was sufficiently obnoxious to amount to a nuisance . |
| 8 | The new electronic media of the 1980s , such as cable , satellite TV and video recorders , were not variations in the product reaching the audience , as were those changes in the press . |
| 9 | But Virgin were not victors at every auction . |
| 10 | They were not puppets like the garden-master . |
| 11 | The USA was authorized both by international law and by UN sanctions to intercept shipping destined for Iraq in the wake of the Gulf war , but had no authority to divert shipments bound for Iran or Syria because Iran , North Korea and Syria were not signatories to the Missile Technology Control Regime . |
| 12 | Chapman insisted that his players were not slaves to a system , but merely followed the ‘ fundamental principles of teamwork ’ . |
| 13 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 14 | Gandhi and Nehru , Mandela and Mugabe , or for that matter the late Zulfikhar Bhutto , who complained about the absence of a sense of Pakistani nationhood , are or were not nationalists in the sense of Landsbergis or Tudjman . |
| 15 | To Napoleon , the reduction of the monasteries and the abolition of the Inquisition were not part of a plan to reform and regenerate Spain but improvised responses to financial necessity and to the French idée fixe that rebellion was the work of monks . |
| 16 | But local department stores or specialist shops which were not part of a chain were used less by credit buyers than cash buyers , whereas fuel board showrooms were used more . |
| 17 | Moreover , since the 1788 petitions were not part of a movement pursuing significant change in the political system or attacking the range of government policy , the application of humanitarian and general interest criteria to a question of trade probably appeared relatively innocuous to those who were not directly involved . |
| 18 | The passages were not part of the ratio of the decision by which we are bound and with which I respectfully agree . |
| 19 | It dealt with Rastafarian spiritual entities such as Jah or with ganja ( marihuana ) which were not part of the skinhead scene . |
| 20 | This theory carries with it the implication that the cyclostome characters mentioned above were not part of the history of gnathostomes but were instead specializations restricted to lampreys and hagfishes . |
| 21 | They also include a couple of originals that were not part of the promotion , plus Jane Barry 's Casting ( Corgi ) for a light fun read , and Liane Jones ' The Dreamstone ( Mandarin ) for a glorious time-travel romance . |
| 22 | Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway . |
| 23 | The expenses and toils of a long war are but too just an excuse that the thought of a new library were not part of the public cares . |
| 24 | Sir , you will remember in the deposit , Skelton was inset , although these two fields were not part of the inset . |
| 25 | If these principles were not part of the staple diet of home life , the battle was ‘ already half lost ’ , no matter how skilled teachers , social workers or other professionals might be in making up the deficiency . |
| 26 | France were not part of the tournament in 1892 , and 100 years later I would be reluctant to predict precisely what their impact will be this time round , Villepreux or no ! |
| 27 | As Eikhenbaum so firmly insists : ‘ [ they ] were not advocates of a method , but students of an object ’ ( 1965 : 131 ) . |
| 28 | Secondly , it was emphasised that ex hypothesi the responsible third parties — and in particular the solicitors in this case — were not parties to the transaction and received nothing under it . |
| 29 | The basis of these decisions was that strikes would result in unlawful ‘ secondary ’ action involving employers who were not parties to the dispute . |
| 30 | The Crown submitted that , even if the defendant 's approach be accepted , the defence could not exclude admissible evidence , even if proper notice of it had not been given , and further argued that Zaidie 's evidence ( confirmed by the defendant ) that an accident was not suggested in the telephone call to him was conclusive when taken with the incontrovertible circumstances of the shooting , thereby suggesting that the ‘ irregularities ’ were not material in the sense that the defence could have profited if they had not occurred . |