Example sentences of "which was not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until late 1988 , whisky spirits in Japan faced a special tax which was not applied to other spirits . |
| 2 | Summarized briefly , current opinions see the Roman economy as pre-eminently agricultural , occurring against a background of rising population , a growing proportion of which was not engaged in agricultural pursuits . |
| 3 | Harvard trainees , while waiting for dealing licences to be sent from the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , were given the job of establishing initial contact with persons whose names were Perfectly properly provided by Dun and Bradstreet , the American business information service , which was not dealing at all . |
| 4 | After about a mile , a humped-backed bridge crossed the L.B.S.C. Railway and the road entered the old township of Mitcham , then still part of the Croydon Rural District , which was not disbanded until 1914 . |
| 5 | And this is a Sotino which is a quality brand in those days , I , I , do n't know if it still is , I assume it is , erm , which was not advertised at all , and although the Rolex 's and so on in this world have been heavily advertised as they came on the market , Sotino 's never really was , so my father had a struggle I suspect selling . |
| 6 | From the second-floor landing , a ladder-like stair , more steeply raked than those serving the lower floors , leads up to a large loft , wholly accommodated in the roof space of the main block , which was not exploited as living accommodation in the original conversion scheme . |
| 7 | The bare infinitive expresses a possibility which was not realized in this use and is therefore conceived in the same way as it is with the modal auxiliaries , as a mere potential , except for the fact that no particular form of potentiality is attributed to it . |
| 8 | ‘ We received warnings that mentioned four specific streets and the second bomb went off in a street which was not named in those warnings , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Mr Constable said later that the provost was traditionally chairman of the board , which was not run along political lines . |
| 10 | Mr Constable said later that the provost was traditionally chairman of the board , which was not run along political lines . |
| 11 | This change , which was not provoked by any external force , was inspired by Muhammad ibn Ali , great-grandson of Abbas , an uncle of the Prophet , whence the name of the Abbasid dynasty which now succeeded the Umayyads . |
| 12 | American interests demanded a friendly and stable Middle East , one which was not exposed to Soviet interference or encroachment , and from which supplies of oil — especially to Western Europe — were assured . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom introduced legislation requiring the fitting of a ‘ dim-dip ’ device , invoking safety grounds , but it was held that the EEC directives on motor vehicle headlights regulated the matter in an exhaustive manner , so that a Member State could not require a form of lighting which was not listed in those directives . |
| 14 | According to the Guinness Book of Records , the oldest archery company in Britain is the Society of Archers of Yorkshire which was not formed until 1673 but has been in being since then . |
| 15 | Because she did not have any preparation for pregnancy or birth , her labour and delivery were quite difficult , complicated by her having curvature of the spine which was not realised at such short notice . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister and his immediate allies had rejected the possibility of devaluation — the ‘ unmentionable ’ solution to which Crosland was committed , but which was not faced until 1967 . |
| 17 | That package included agreeing the running costs of the estate with the Scottish Natural Heritage agency , which was not finalised despite lengthy negotiations . |
| 18 | For example , James Anderton , the chief constable of Greater Manchester , pursued a drive against pornography in the early 1980s which was not imitated by other chief officers . |
| 19 | For what sin can be named which was not included in this one act . |
| 20 | He was barely eighteen , he was to go on a tour of the fabled cities of England ; he was to be thrown in with chorus girls , drink with vagabonds of the stage , have the money for floozies and low bars , time to read and time to talk and be praised for doing this stage work which was not work at all . |
| 21 | This was partly to save money ( since an ambassador had to live in a style and with an expense which was not expected of lesser mortals ) and partly to minimise the risk of quarrels over precedence . |
| 22 | The heterogeneous increase of urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen concentrations in homogenates of endoscopical biopsy specimens from carcinomas of the upper gastrointestinal tract , which was not associated with several other prognostic determinants , as presented in this study , might perhaps be of value in determining prognosis in ( early ) oesophageal and gastric cancer . |
| 23 | The only politically important area of British life which was not dominated by these less than adequate children of the Victorians was the labour movement . |
| 24 | Regrettably , the whole foundation for this is the rather suspect testimony of Tschudi 's grandson , James Schudi Broadwood , which was not published till 1862 and a rather speculative connection between Handel and an evidently much altered harpsichord dated 1729 that purports to have belonged to his prima donna , Anna Strada . |
| 25 | This situation arose when a Prime Minister died in office or resigned for personal reasons , that is to say , when a vacancy occurred which was not accompanied by any change in the position of the parties . |