Example sentences of "were not [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-word boundary effects were not implemented for the first prototype . |
| 2 | Some panel members believed that decisions taken by the Children 's Panel were not implemented by the Social Work Department , and therefore threatened the independence and integrity of the Panel . |
| 3 | And Tory arguments that the tax would make companies uncompetitive were not looking at the whole picture . |
| 4 | Tensions were not eased by the grudging spirit in which toleration had been granted . |
| 5 | A central committee advisory board was created to accommodate three " old guard " revolutionaries who were not re-elected to the political bureau , namely Souphanouvong , Phoumi Vongvichit and Sisomphone Lovansay . |
| 6 | Q. Is there any comeback in law is a horse reveals faults which were not declared by the previous owner at the time of the sale ? |
| 7 | Calls for democracy along western lines with a multi-party system , free choice of candidates and free elections were not tolerated by the old party leaders , Who clung to centralised ‘ socialist democracy ’ . |
| 8 | They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’ |
| 9 | The huge debts which Edward inherited from his father were not redeemed until the last four years of his reign when a lengthy if fragile truce with Scotland , together with reform and refinement of treasury administration , and ruthless exactions from the Contrariants and any other offenders , enabled Edward II to leave , as no subsequent medieval king was to do , a solvent crown to his successor . |
| 10 | Flights were not disrupted by the bad visibility . |
| 11 | But those changes were not met with the politicized and combative attitudes of the past . |
| 12 | Will the Secretary of State explain how he was able to commission a review of teaching methods in a matter of a few weeks , although his minimum standards — first laid down in 1981 — were not met in the 10 years that the Government allowed themselves , and the current review will not now report until the autumn ? |
| 13 | They imposed a ban on all unemployment relief organisations that were not run through the Nazi Party . |
| 14 | Administrative problems played their part in this story since the centres were not run by the same authorities as those managing the state hospitals . |
| 15 | The valuations are those of estate agent Peter Freitag but , on this occasion , they were not based on the usual detailed investigation of the inside of the houses . |
| 16 | But this would not be the case where the trust assets were not exposed to the same risk that the other vendors accept . |
| 17 | The tenders were not received until the following week . |
| 18 | The DTI could have responded by saying that the absence of the monitoring return was a serious matter , that it would allow a short extension , but that ‘ consideration would need to be given to revoking the licence if a satisfactory and duly verified monitoring return were not received by the specified date . ’ |
| 19 | They also knew they were not connected with the humanitarian assistance programme ( NHAO ) that was eventually run for the contras by the State Department , since those aircraft were ‘ beautiful brand-new L-100s , the most beautifully painted things ’ . |
| 20 | But their importance was overlaid by the less formal and increasingly numerous letters of the type found in the state papers , the Privy Council 's register , and private collections : letters that conveyed information , advice , admonition , and informal orders ; documents that were not bound by the rigid formularies of legal requirement . |
| 21 | She 'd always envied Mandy her wonderful looks and her voluptuous compact figure , but she had long ago accepted the fact that she and Mandy were not made of the same stuff . |
| 22 | The magnificent Persian carpets in Western museums , that are generally accepted as being the epitome of oriental textile art , were not made until the early 16th century . |
| 23 | Pairs of brooches often have similar values of silver , but some reveal significant differences in copper values indicating they were not made from the same batch of metal . |
| 24 | They were not prepared for the thousands of young people demonstrating on the streets , apparently with Deng 's blessing . |
| 25 | First of all you should eliminate all those who do not have the essential qualifications for the job you listed while you were still being objective and were not influenced by the different personalities of the candidate . |
| 26 | She has a lot of fun with Vogue 's heartless frivolity , Paul Theroux ( ‘ I 'd suggest a vasectomy ’ ) and the Surrealists ( ‘ What did these young people do with themselves when they were not engaged in the revolutionary act of sleep ? ’ ) . |
| 27 | ( Four of the homelands — Ciskei , Bophuthatswana , Transkei and Venda — were nominally independent of South Africa , but were not recognized by the international community ; the remaining six were " self-governing " ; all remained heavily dependent on subsidies from South Africa . |
| 28 | Consequently the vast majority of contests were not decided until the second round on March 18 . |
| 29 | The frequency of gap junctions between the absorptive cells in the area of the intestinal metaplasia was low ( Fig 4 ) , and gap junctions were not observed in the lateral membranes of goblet cells . |
| 30 | The only problem was that the big men in Formula One were not delegated at the Plenary Conference of FISA and so did not have a vote . |