Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following year , 1926 the Ministry of Health issued draft proposals for reform of the Poor Law but copies were not sent to Boards of Guardians , and it was decided that a letter of protest about the omission should be sent . |
| 2 | The daily temperatures were not related to exposure of the vaccines to temperatures >10°C . |
| 3 | However , positive school experiences were not related to outcome among the comparison sample . |
| 4 | Table III shows that standardised mortality ratios for cardiovascular disease were not related to duration of gestation , though the highest ratio , 107 , was in men born at 37 weeks or less . |
| 5 | Thirteenth-century reformers expended much energy and ingenuity trying to ensure that parishes were properly served and that the souls of parishioners were not exposed to perdition by the negligence and greed of pluralist incumbents . |
| 6 | It was interesting , moreover , to see that Conductive Education groups at the Institute were not limited to children with severe motor problems . |
| 7 | The end of the cylinder box had to suffice ( 27 ) , and paper labels were not attached to discs until 1901 ( 28 , left ) . |
| 8 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 9 | His family arranged his cremation , but his ashes were not taken to Paris until 30 November 1950 , the fiftieth anniversary of Wilde 's death . |
| 10 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 11 | His interests were not confined to works on paper , but also included tapestries , silver , glass , bronzes and paintings , some of which were offered at auction by Sotheby 's in 1987 . |
| 12 | In other words , er they were n't trying to sort of scrape it together to actually repay your , repay your twelve thousand pound wh loan at the end of twenty years . |
| 13 | They 'd not long allowed white caddies at Augusta , and the police were n't used to people like me . |
| 14 | He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more . |
| 15 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 16 | Practical experience ( number of arrests attended ) was not related to skills before or after the course . |
| 17 | Urinary albumin excretion progression was not related to changes in urinary sodium and urea excretion , glycated haemoglobin concentration , or weight , but it was related to the sum of urinary sodium excretion during the whole treatment period ( r '=0.44 , p=0.05 for all patients ; r '=0.39 for enalapril group ; r '=0.36 for hydrochlorothiazide group ) . |
| 18 | Data from 100 deaf and mentally handicapped children showed considerable variability and performance was not related to scores from the Reynell Developmental Language Scales ( see below ) or the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test ( see above ) . |
| 19 | The Federal Constitutional Court ruled on April 23 that landowners and industrialists whose property was expropriated during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany in 1945-49 did not have a right to its return , and that this was not counter to clauses in the federal Constitution on the right to property and equal treatment before the law . |
| 20 | The fact is , however , that ownership of Chestvale was not transferred to Delion until days before Telecom paid over £9.4m on May 7th , 1990 . |
| 21 | The country was not ringing to calls for their shutdown from either legislators or the judiciary . |
| 22 | Her was not given to eloquence about the beauties of the countryside , and was puzzled that he should come out with this remark . |
| 23 | The Project set out to develop and encourage ‘ good practice ’ in the teaching of mathematics to low-attaining pupils , but it became clear at an early stage that low attainment was not limited to pupils in the ‘ bottom 40 per cent ’ attainment range . |
| 24 | Loretta hoped Mr Koogan 's experience of journalists was not limited to representatives of the Sun . |
| 25 | ( Debate about Cuba , however , was not permitted to surface in print until very recently . ) |
| 26 | Endometriosis was not linked to duration of taking oral contraceptives . |
| 27 | If by neutralisation is meant establishing Great Power guarantees for the neutrality of states or regions , then Soviet interest in this process or regime certainly was not confined to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 28 | The region 's legacy from these centuries was not confined to models of conflict , however . |
| 29 | Both sides did their best through the medium of television to ensure that the general population 's familiarity with the war was not confined to news of casualties . |
| 30 | Belief in progress was not confined to supporters of scientism , but the two went very easily together ; and we should now review this progress . |