Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks as if the two books were not conceived as a single entity although they interrelate in the way that Hilton picks up and elaborates aspects of the subject of Scale 1 in Scale 2 . |
| 2 | Fellows seems to have acted in the sale of the Grand Union to the Grand Junction , for in a letter to the Grand Union he pointed out that the price would have to be realistic , bearing in mind that they were not dealing with a willing purchaser . |
| 3 | Drawings were not done to a standard scale ; the metric system was just being introduced in France and its conquered territories , where it replaced a range of different miles , fathoms , feet and inches ; and there were no standard interchangeable parts , even nuts and bolts and screws being individual . |
| 4 | Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party . |
| 5 | Nor are evolutionary processes progressive or purposive ; the primitive single-celled creatures which were our early forebears were not possessed of a burning imperative , or driven by a mystic higher force , to evolve into sentient humans . |
| 6 | These , he says , were not overcome without a long struggle . |
| 7 | Old stopcocks were not made to a standard size and it may take some searching in plumbers ’ merchants to find something that will enable you to connect new copper pipe . |
| 8 | However , in Re Cadbury Schweppes Ltd 's Agreement [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 307 a parent company and a subsidiary were not treated as a single person where two companies agreed to accept restrictions on the supply of goods to a third which was a subsidiary of one of them . |
| 9 | This meant that pensions were not regarded as a right but were dependent on the establishment of eligibility through contributions or ‘ work-testing ’ . |
| 10 | What would happen if the Institute were not accepted on a new Register ? was glad of the opportunity to speak on the matter and as the Institute representative on the Committee he was disturbed by the lack of progress by the appointed agent . |
| 11 | The pairs ( I , J ) were not stored as a simple list , but as a k-D tree , so that search for closest points is faster . |
| 12 | As always in such an undertaking , the art of organization lay in the avoidance of offending those who were not asked at a particular moment and in the ability to remember enmities and jealousies which could cause friction and poison the atmosphere if the wrong people found themselves together . |
| 13 | Although simultaneous oesophageal pH measurements were not done , the bursts of non-deglutitive contractions were not preceded by a small pressure plateau or other signs of a common cavity phenomenon . |
| 14 | These bursts of repetitive non-sequential pressure peaks did not show any characteristics that would suggest a common cavity phenomenon ; they were not preceded by a sudden small increase in base line oesophageal pressure occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus ; and the shape of the individual waves , although occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus , was often different from one level to the other . |
| 15 | The English actions were not combined in a single trial but subject to an order of Steyn J. which provided for the selection of lead cases to ensure determination of the major points of law and to avoid multiplicity of litigation . |
| 16 | Frequent prior recurrence ( p=0.464 ) , a heavy physical workload ( p=0.145 ) , and psychological stress ( p=0.062 ) were not associated with a decreased healing rate and there were too few patients at risk to allow assessment of the effect of regular NSAID intake . |
| 17 | The following risk factors were not associated with a decreased healing rate at two , four , or eight weeks respectively : male gender ( 38.5% , 69.6% , 93.2% ) ; age under 40 years ( 39.5% , 72.9% , 93.3% ) ; alcohol ( 40.1% , 71.9% , 93.7% ) ; beer ( 39.5% , 70.7% , 92.9% ) ; spirits ( 39.8% , 71.4% , 95.2% ) ; coffee ( 38.4% , 71.3% , 93.8% ) ; tea ( 40.8% , 69.8% , 93.4% ) ; a family history of duodenal ulcer disease ( 37.8% , 68.9% , 93.3% ) ; prior ulcer haemorrhage ( 34.8% , 68.9% , 94.2% ) ; concomitant illness ( 37.5% , 68.5% , 92.8% ) ; immigrant worker status ( 37.5% , 70.5% , 92.1% ) ; shift work ( 36.5% , 73.0% , 93.8% ) ; or a history of ulcer disease for more than 10 years ( 39.3%. 68.0% , 91.9% ) . |
| 18 | Rises in basal oesophageal pressure due to straining or breath holding were excluded by recognition of similar rises in the gastric pressure tracing , whereas true oesophageal body common cavity episodes were not associated with a comparable change of intragastric pressure ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 19 | The years were not numbered in a linear succession but according to a particular pharaoh 's reign , each mounting the throne in the year 1 , and also according to the levy of taxes . |
| 20 | In 1959 Dore Ashton was dismissed by the New York Times , the charges being that her articles were not aimed at a wide newspaper audience , and her articles on work by artist friends gave evidence of bias ( her husband , whose work she was forbidden to review , was a painter and print-maker called Adja Yunkers ) . |
| 21 | The thing , two things that struck me about it , one of which is that we were not talking about a separate soundtrack , the actual existing soundtrack of the film is merged with the audio description |
| 22 | Such a strategy would have to be very carefully designed , however , if it were not to result in a huge explosion of word hypotheses . |
| 23 | Dollars and Western valuables were not hoarded against a rainy day in the manner of Latin American dictators . |
| 24 | If the tenant could not exploit the land directly himself , with his own resources and those of his family , he would have to hire labour , but it seems likely that the small farmer was able to make a better profit than the great man , because his lands were not encumbered by a costly and unproductive bureaucracy . |
| 25 | Effective communication nationally was the one factor missing , German chemists were not concentrated in a particular city , unlike their French counterparts in Paris , and thus a forum was needed . |
| 26 | Often their estates were not concentrated in a single province , but scattered over a number . |
| 27 | Chances are Sharon , Tracy or Wayne were n't raised on a big country estate with Rupert , William , Sarah and Lucinda . |
| 28 | Professor John Garrow of the Department of Nutrition at St Bartholomew 's hospital in London , and Britain 's foremost authority on weight loss , estimates that around half the slim adult population were n't born with a magic inability to gain weight . |
| 29 | And the stacks were n't built around a central pole ? |
| 30 | v. Henn and Darby , where the Court of Appeal held that the term ‘ quantitative restrictions ’ in Article 30 of the EEC Treaty did not cover a total prohibition on imports on the grounds that such a restriction was not related to a quantitative measure , whereas the case law of the European Court had clearly established that the term in question covered both outright bans and quotas on imports . |