Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During the 1930s a strong pacifist movement came into being which was not tied to a major party although most of its supporters were Labour or Liberal voters . |
| 5 | The 1966 official report into his subsequent escape has some incredibly tedious and unconvincing arguments as to why Blake was not moved to a high , or at least a higher , security prison such as Birmingham . |
| 6 | Bush was not subjected to a general anaesthetic during his hospital treatment , and at no point did he relinquish executive responsibility to Vice-President Dan Quayle . |
| 7 | But because of her age and because it was a first offence , she was n't sent to a juvenile court . |