Example sentences of "were not [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brightly-coloured uniforms and gleaming breastplates were not kept for the parade ground , but were meant to be worn in battle . |
| 2 | It was held that as he had only paid to avoid seizure of his goods and never voluntarily nor intending to give up his rights to the sums paid nor to close the transactions , he was entitled to recover those payments which were not barred by the Statute of Limitation . |
| 3 | It was October before negotiations reached any resolution and the troops were not withdrawn until the end of the year . |
| 4 | The 1900 Olympics were not ratified by the IOC until 1912 ( ironically the year of the ill-fated Triangular Tournament , first-class cricket 's first attempt at an international tournament ) . |
| 5 | These were not understood by the workers and the management on the floor , and indeed should never have been put into operation . |
| 6 | The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists . |
| 7 | As Jones comments , ‘ possible variables such as the rate of development of community services , the aging of the population , economic uncertainty , and the limits of public tolerance , were mentioned , but were not weighted into the predictions ’ . |
| 8 | To remind them that their rule was derived from God himself , and that they were neither creators nor rulers by right , God forbade them only one thing : they were not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil ; such a mysterious gnosis belonged to God alone . |
| 9 | Toys were not manufactured during the war , at least not for the home market . |
| 10 | During the years immediately preceding this meeting AIB had been involved in a number of foreign investigations conducted abroad concerning foreign registered aircraft that were not manufactured in the UK . |
| 11 | When it became possible to study the German foreign office records after 1945 , says an American scholar , ‘ tests did not reveal essential documents … that were not printed by the editors of Die grosse Politia , [ but ] they did reveal that the editors , in making their selection , were influenced by a desire not to make the task of the rulers of the Weimar Republic more difficult , and not to injure the reputation of foreign statesmen who were still active after World War I and who were sympathetic to Germany ’ . |
| 12 | The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth . |
| 13 | They were not caused by the coming of de Gaulle : that merely served to crystallise them . |
| 14 | The difficulties associated with the introduction of the community charge were not caused by the time taken for the Bill to pass through the House , but by the fact that a large number of regulations relating to the charge were passed close to its introduction . |
| 15 | Central bodies were not to negotiate on the transfer of facilities to Lithuanian jurisdiction ( on March 13 the Lithuanian Supreme Council had passed a bill establishing the principle of Lithuanian jurisdiction over all economic facilities in the republic currently held solely by the USSR central authorities or jointly with Lithuania ) . |
| 16 | Booking clinics were not geared to the needs of deaf mothers , who needed to be greeted and dealt with individually . |
| 17 | In the eyes of such politicians , industrial managers were not seen as the creators of the nation 's wealth , and the providers of job opportunities for the people , but as despoilers of the environment ; obsolete men , peddling obsolete views , who did n't really fit in with the new social scheme of things . |
| 18 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |
| 19 | Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making . |
| 20 | In this study , the most striking histological finding was the presence of extensive amyloid infiltration of the smooth muscle in the AL and the AH cases , but such amyloid deposits were not seen in the AA cases . |
| 21 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
| 22 | Recently my female Oscar laid eggs , but they were not fertilised by the male . |
| 23 | He supervised the exercise of common rights by the forest inhabitants , seeing to it , for example , that cattle were not pastured in the forest beyond the period allowed by the Forest law , and seizing animals illegally pastured there . |
| 24 | The results of this interim analysis were not revealed to the members of the study team until after the trial . |
| 25 | These plans were not sent to the Parish Council or the local residents for comment . |
| 26 | ‘ It is obvious to me that you were not born to the position you now occupy . ’ |
| 27 | They were not born in the mushrooms . |
| 28 | The result of tests on them were not placed before the trial . |
| 29 | WHILE Australia 's 27–12 and 37–13 victories over Scotland in the test series saw the Wallabies again rewrite the record books , the two victories were not achieved with the slickness and perfection which coach Bob Dwyer and his team are striving . |
| 30 | It meant the costs and the financial implications were not explained to the relatives , although the consequences for them were quite serious . |