Example sentences of "[noun sg] was not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the work which really made Wordsworth 's reputation , The Excursion ( 1814 ) , is usually dismissed as almost unreadable ; it offers Wordsworth 's mature opinions ‘ on Man , on Nature , and Society ’ , and one must grant that , as The Prelude was not published in 1814 , it appeared to be his most considerable poem . |
| 2 | After 1805 the flood of ideas poured on past Wordsworth , without him ; for The Prelude was not published until 1850 . |
| 3 | Conversely , in the high-risk group , which included all subjects who were not in the low-risk group already defined ( Table 3 ) , the ACE/ID polymorphism was not related to myocardial infarction . |
| 4 | In some cases a carefully monitored rolling programme ensured that over a given period of time , say a week or a fortnight , the teacher engaged directly with every child in every area of the curriculum ; but in other cases the inequality of investment was not adjusted in this way , and the result was the persistent neglect of certain children and certain areas of the curriculum . |
| 5 | The Gardeners Dictionary was not confined to English readers ; it was first translated into Dutch in 1745 , an indication of the author 's close association with Holland . |
| 6 | The peace which ended this episode was not concluded until 1669 . |
| 7 | Attlee did not expect to win the general election held on 5 July 1945 ( though the result was not declared until 26 July , to allow the votes of the Armed Forces to be garnered from around the globe ) . |
| 8 | If the litigant was not assisted at first instance , or before one of the appellate tribunals , a full application for a legal aid certificate must be made . |
| 9 | Equal adult suffrage was not conceded in local government in Northern Ireland until 1969 ( Arthur 1980:108 ) . |
| 10 | This was then subsequently taken over by Oatridge College and this department was not involved at that time . |
| 11 | The effectiveness of the Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was not addressed in this study , but was examined in a second study ( described later on in this chapter ) . |
| 12 | It should also be noted that on this occasion the march was not accompanied by nationalist bands . |
| 13 | The results in Table 7.2 clearly show a reduction in the number of word-paths for all sets ; however there were also many utterances for which the correct word-path was not included as one of the alternative word-paths ( Table 7.3 ) . |
| 14 | Initially the rule was not viewed with any great significance by either the Commission or academic commentators . |
| 15 | In the event the gap was not measured by relative own resources and allocated EC expenditures , but by relative VAT payments and allocated EC expenditures . |
| 16 | Figure 2 shows a typical STIM image of a plaque in unstained tissue , together with the corresponding elemental maps of S , P , C and N. The results of analyses on unstained tissue is shown in Table 2 , which indicates that aluminium was not observed in any of the neuritic plaque cores scanned , at a sensitivity of 15p.p.m . |
| 17 | This extra promise on the side was not signed by both parties . |
| 18 | Baldwin 's practice of dedicated delegation was not confined to foreign affairs . |
| 19 | Even if the rock was not broken in such circumstances , the fiery blast shooting forth from the hole could inflict awful injury . |
| 20 | The lock was not designed for rough treatment . |
| 21 | This could be done , and the lord would be in a position to rack-rent , if there was any demand for land , and although this latter condition was not met for much of the fifteenth century , it did apply as the sixteenth century advanced . |
| 22 | Before he succeeded Balfour then , Law was not associated with any of the features that were to characterize his party leadership ; his contribution was to use the leadership in the service of all of these causes , to make himself the spokesman for the most spirited sections of the party . |
| 23 | Over the years , although never establishing a close friendship with the Profumos , I have had an admiring acquaintance with both of them and am happy to see that their marriage was not ruined by this solitary episode and distressed indeed by its revival from time to time by creatures animated solely by greed . |
| 24 | The abolition of the ILEA was not based on educational considerations nor even on economic ones . |
| 25 | Agreement on withdrawal was not reached until early 1929 . |
| 26 | Mr Adams said the republican demand for a British withdrawal was not aimed at northern Protestants . |
| 27 | The pastry crust that had topped the pie during its parade through the village was not eaten for hygienic reasons , so 50,000 squares of puff pastry had been baked separately and these were reheated — not too successfully — in a mobile oven in the huge open-sided marquee into which the pie , on its trailer , eventually came to rest . |
| 28 | Its legitimacy was not based on electoral success but on its revolutionary principles and antecedents . |
| 29 | The work was not written in liturgical order , and Mozart 's own part in it breaks off after eight bars of the Lachrymosa . |
| 30 | His work was not confined to this one area , however . |