Example sentences of "which [was/were] not [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of them which were not about the Englishman 's standard of living ( no peasant wooden shoes and no Irish potatoes ) were shared by many of the " middling people " ; these were the issues and they were more important than any lingering popular Jacobitism , although that sentiment certainly existed . |
| 2 | John Aitken , defending , said he would be trying to persuade the court not to confiscate some of the weapons which were not on the charge . |
| 3 | Losses which were not under the insurance safety net — such as product loss or damage , investigation costs and loss of corporate image — were also accounted for ; these were the uninsured losses . |
| 4 | The burghers of Kinsai ranked is lesser Khans , and they had done their best to decorate in suitable style those areas of their city which were not in the path of the official progress . |
| 5 | An emergency prohibition order was served on the restaurant and joint proprietor Mohammed Uddin , 29 , was later charged with selling an item which was not of the substance of the food demanded by the purchasers . |
| 6 | Shildon had excused his initial omissions on the grounds that he had concealed that he was engaged in work which was not for the business section . |
| 7 | Although a separate issue which was not on the Forum 's agenda , the ‘ Let ’ proposal nevertheless drew much adverse comment from many of those present , including Stefan Edberg and Steffi Graf , the latter player who thought it ‘ silly ’ . |
| 8 | I sat and looked at what I had got to do and in quite lateral ways determined how to do it , which was not in the way they had always done it . |
| 9 | If they did not and Harris had been free to work for a GUS company which was not in the mail order business he could still have passed Littlewoods ' business secrets back to the mail order companies because of the structure of the GUS group . |
| 10 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 11 | With the addition of the information about the effect of the sentence on the daughter , which was not before the trial court , the court had come to the conclusion that the appellant should not remain in custody . |
| 12 | At that hearing , according to information which is before us but which was not before the judge , the first appellant was not present . |