Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [prep] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland , 1,483 people were arrested and charged , but as many as 33 per cent of these were not proceeded against by the Procurator-fiscal . |
| 2 | break-up of family through death , divorce , separation ( especially when the child was not cared for by the mother ) |
| 3 | However , this was not relied on by the Court of Appeal who reversed the decision on the facts ( see p60 below ) . |
| 4 | This lower use of hospital inpatient facilities was not accounted for by the older age of the people in residential homes although fewer of all those aged 85 or more had spent time in hospital — 64 per cent against 80 per cent of those under 85 . |
| 5 | However , this study demonstrated that the increased prevalence of macrovascular complications was not accounted for by the increased frequency of cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension . |
| 6 | It was significant that the Official Secrets Act — the use of which would have been fatal to the publication — was not resorted to by the government . |