Example sentences of "[noun sg] was not [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if Lubor said he had heard , but that Ven was n't returning for another week ? |
| 2 | However , the Court had also held in Case 362/90 , d'Urso , [ 1990 ] 1 ECR 4105 that a collective decision to contract out of the Directive was not binding on individual employees who wish subsequently to transfer . |
| 3 | Fair amount of arguing , I do n't know if that 's part of the ploy with the free kick , just before it came over I think you were getting frustrated that the free kick was n't coming over quick enough , a lot of arms being raised , is that a ploy or was it actually real frustration ? |
| 4 | Branson himself was assured by British officials that the government were wholly on his side , and that there would be ‘ an unholy row ’ if Virgin was not flying on 22 June . |
| 5 | The conflict was not lacking in human interest . |
| 6 | This raised the obvious question of why , if the money supply was expanding so rapidly ( it averaged 12 per cent p.a. 1981–87 ) , inflation was not running at 9 per cent or more . |
| 7 | Daine was n't bothering with fine detail here . |
| 8 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 9 | Bowen C.J. held that the listing decision had not been taken under the treaty-making power , and that the Cabinet was not acting under any internationally binding obligation . |
| 10 | Special considerations : the medical evidence was that the appellant was not suffering from mental illness or mental impairment , and was not suffering from psychopathic disorder . |
| 11 | Although the appellant was not suffering from mental illness , there was clearly something radically wrong with him : he presented a deeply worrying problem . |