Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-word boundary effects were not implemented for the first prototype . |
| 2 | Some panel members believed that decisions taken by the Children 's Panel were not implemented by the Social Work Department , and therefore threatened the independence and integrity of the Panel . |
| 3 | And Tory arguments that the tax would make companies uncompetitive were not looking at the whole picture . |
| 4 | Tensions were not eased by the grudging spirit in which toleration had been granted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A central committee advisory board was created to accommodate three " old guard " revolutionaries who were not re-elected to the political bureau , namely Souphanouvong , Phoumi Vongvichit and Sisomphone Lovansay . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Q. Is there any comeback in law is a horse reveals faults which were not declared by the previous owner at the time of the sale ? |
| 9 | Calls for democracy along western lines with a multi-party system , free choice of candidates and free elections were not tolerated by the old party leaders , Who clung to centralised ‘ socialist democracy ’ . |
| 10 | But these deaths were not caused by an avenging spirit from beneath the sunset . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The huge debts which Edward inherited from his father were not redeemed until the last four years of his reign when a lengthy if fragile truce with Scotland , together with reform and refinement of treasury administration , and ruthless exactions from the Contrariants and any other offenders , enabled Edward II to leave , as no subsequent medieval king was to do , a solvent crown to his successor . |
| 15 | Flights were not disrupted by the bad visibility . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But those changes were not met with the politicized and combative attitudes of the past . |
| 18 | Will the Secretary of State explain how he was able to commission a review of teaching methods in a matter of a few weeks , although his minimum standards — first laid down in 1981 — were not met in the 10 years that the Government allowed themselves , and the current review will not now report until the autumn ? |
| 19 | These , he says , were not overcome without a long struggle . |
| 20 | They imposed a ban on all unemployment relief organisations that were not run through the Nazi Party . |
| 21 | Administrative problems played their part in this story since the centres were not run by the same authorities as those managing the state hospitals . |
| 22 | The valuations are those of estate agent Peter Freitag but , on this occasion , they were not based on the usual detailed investigation of the inside of the houses . |
| 23 | But this would not be the case where the trust assets were not exposed to the same risk that the other vendors accept . |
| 24 | The tenders were not received until the following week . |
| 25 | The DTI could have responded by saying that the absence of the monitoring return was a serious matter , that it would allow a short extension , but that ‘ consideration would need to be given to revoking the licence if a satisfactory and duly verified monitoring return were not received by the specified date . ’ |
| 26 | They also knew they were not connected with the humanitarian assistance programme ( NHAO ) that was eventually run for the contras by the State Department , since those aircraft were ‘ beautiful brand-new L-100s , the most beautifully painted things ’ . |
| 27 | But their importance was overlaid by the less formal and increasingly numerous letters of the type found in the state papers , the Privy Council 's register , and private collections : letters that conveyed information , advice , admonition , and informal orders ; documents that were not bound by the rigid formularies of legal requirement . |
| 28 | She 'd always envied Mandy her wonderful looks and her voluptuous compact figure , but she had long ago accepted the fact that she and Mandy were not made of the same stuff . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The magnificent Persian carpets in Western museums , that are generally accepted as being the epitome of oriental textile art , were not made until the early 16th century . |