Example sentences of "this was not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was n't to do with fearsome flashbacks from the great TV war . |
| 2 | This was n't helping at all . |
| 3 | She began to hope that maybe she 'd already been rescued and this was n't Spiderglass at all . |
| 4 | This was n't going at all how she had hoped . |
| 5 | The bile acid concentration in faecal water also decreased with increasing dietary calcium , and this was not influenced by dietary phosphate . |
| 6 | Part 2 of the National Insurance Act authorized technical retraining schemes for adults , but this was not implemented until 1925 . |
| 7 | It originates from an Italian request to the Council of Ministers in 1973 to identify environmentally ‘ balanced ’ and ‘ unbalanced ’ areas in the Community ; the first attempts to do this were unsuccessful and , though by 1981 it was clear that a new approach based on an environmental information system was the most promising one , funding for this was not secured until 1985 . |
| 8 | This was not planned in any way ; it just happened . |
| 9 | This was not related to any change in adhesive properties . |
| 10 | This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy . |
| 11 | This was not done in any of the other cases . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , while the government might successfully have enacted and implemented its rate-capping proposals , this was not achieved without considerable political cost . |
| 13 | Cadmium is a very volatile metal that has to be prepared by distillation ; as this was not achieved until 1818 , solders containing cadmium can not be ancient . |
| 14 | The most likely candidates are local firm MSP Sp zoo , and DHI , which is majority owned by Munich-based Computer 2000 GmBH — although this was not confirmed by American Technologies ' executive vice-president Alex Barkaloff . |
| 15 | It has been suggested on the basis of short periods of observation that sleep depresses colonic motility , but this was not confirmed by some authors , and others noted a wide variability of rectosigmoid motor activity during sleep . |
| 16 | Yet Maxwell , perhaps because he never achieved an adequate exposition of what he described as his ‘ somewhat awkward theory ’ ( this was not made until 1941 ! ) failed to convince such leading contemporaries as Thompson and Helmholtz , or even the brilliant Austrian Ludwig Boltzmann ( 1844–1906 ) , whose memoir of 1868 virtually launched statistical mechanics as a subject . |
| 17 | This was not welcomed by all the students , some of whom left the College after the secretary 's dismissal , causing it to issue an advertisement calling on clients not to employ them as farriers . |
| 18 | The quality of life after restorative proctocolectomy seems now to be appreciably better than after conventional proctocolectomy although this was not measured in this audit . |
| 19 | This was not invented until 1913 and in its early simple form consisted of steel with a chromium content : this made the alloy highly resistant to corrosion . |
| 20 | The nodular sclerosing form was the dominant histological sybtype , although this was not specified in all patients . |
| 21 | A train was authorized to enter the succeeding section only when this was not occupied by another train . |
| 22 | Iraq was for some years generally regarded as possessing air superiority , although this was not translated into any particular battlefield advantage . |