Example sentences of "[noun pl] was not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An analysis of clinical parameters was not performed in either study . |
| 2 | The peak in our schools was not reached until 1983 ( Table 1 ) nevertheless the subsequent drop has matched that in the state sector . |
| 3 | Full use of the books was not made in some of the stricter districts of the Highlands where , it is recorded , some teachers refused to read fiction to their pupils because it was " untrue . " |
| 4 | A Ridge had been recorded in a list of nailers in the village back in Queen Anne 's reign and the family 's connection with metal hand crafts was not broken until 1970 when John Henry Ridge retired ( at the age of ninety-one ) from his part-time occupation of making gimlets in the last of Ecclesfield 's little smithies . |
| 5 | The rest of the maltings was n't finished until 1952 , then owned by . |
| 6 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott was ordered home to the United Kingdom that summer as beach reconnaissance was part of the Allied plans for these ‘ Torch ’ landings , but final approval for training the necessary teams was not cleared until 8 September , a mere eight weeks before the date for this invasion . |
| 7 | Science emerged later as a branch of education and its assimilation into the existing institutions and structures was not achieved without some noticeable exercises of accommodation . |
| 8 | Survival of patients was not improved by preoperative radiotherapy , but was significantly associated with a radical tumour resection . |
| 9 | First , that the assistant recorder refused to quash these two counts , notwithstanding that the evidential basis for the allegation that the appellant was engaged in an office or employment in consequence of his false representations was not contained in any of the committal statements , nor in any evidence that had been led before the jury , and that the appellant had not been committed for trial on the offences alleged . |
| 10 | The suggestion from the Prime Minister that education be geared to serve utilitarian ends was not received with universal approval . |
| 11 | The apparent proective effect of current and recent use of intrauterine devices was not limited to any particular type of device ( data not shown ) . |
| 12 | Two thirds of recognised seroconversions were in men aged 25 years or over , and the increase in sexually transmitted diseases was not confined to young men . |
| 13 | This doubt about world synods was not lessened by later experience . |
| 14 | The model of the tap and the glass however explains that for some people their first experience of anxiety symptoms was not caused by any specific frightful encounter but rather by the insidious , unapparent build-up of stress , one drop at a time . |
| 15 | The judge , concluding that the court 's paramount consideration on such an application was the children 's welfare , in accordance with section 1(1) of the Act , and that its power to interfere with the local authority 's proposals for the children was not confined to exceptional circumstances , granted the foster mother leave to apply for residence orders in respect of the children . |
| 16 | The Life of the Fathers was not completed until 592 at the earliest . |
| 17 | The loyalty to the Crown of English settlers was not matched by any comparable institutional framework ; a well-informed observer on the continent of Europe might reasonably have expected that the execution of Charles I would lead to the disintegration of his empire overseas and that the Republic would be unable to assert any authority at all over emigrants whose political links with England were already so relatively weak . |
| 18 | Such perivascular concentration of TNF α+; cells was not seen in ulcerative colitis or in Crohn 's lamina propria . |