Example sentences of "were not [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These plans were not sent to the Parish Council or the local residents for comment . |
| 2 | ‘ It is obvious to me that you were not born to the position you now occupy . ’ |
| 3 | These haematological and biochemical parameters , however , were not related to the presence of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody reactivity , except for a negative correlation between the presence of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and serum albumin concentration ( r=-0.215 ; p=0.031 ) . |
| 4 | They were not related to the duration of gestation . |
| 5 | In their study maternal age , the length of time from birth , and maternal education were not related to the accuracy of reported birth weight . |
| 6 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 7 | He argued that in some markets the lumpy nature of demand made it essential that contracts be shared out , to ensure that the competitors were not exposed to the risk of alternating ‘ feast and famine ’ in their order books . |
| 8 | If the amp head were not connected to the speaker when switched on would it damage the amp ? |
| 9 | Did any towns thrive which were not connected to the railway system ? |
| 10 | ( ii ) Trusts were not bound to a set form . |
| 11 | In the colonial courts payments were not made to the judge , but to witnesses , court officials and lawyers whose task it was to manipulate the evidence placed before the judge in order to produce an outcome favourable to the client . |
| 12 | Although the parents and the study staff were not blinded to the vaccine groups , parents gave informed consent before knowing which vaccine their child would receive . |
| 13 | Chantries were not limited to the laity ; some of the more senior clergy certainly availed themselves of the system and numerous chantry chapels survive in most of the monastic-foundation cathedrals to abbots and priors . |
| 14 | However , as with military expenditure , the effects were not limited to the sterling area : capital inflows allowed much larger demands on the dollar pool by recipient countries . |
| 15 | In a second study , Kennedy ( 1972 ) found that repetition after 1 year was less common in patients admitted to the Edinburgh Regional Poisoning Treatment Centre ( 12 per cent ) than in those who made attempts and were not referred to the Centre , irrespective of whether the latter were referred to psychiatrists elsewhere ( 38 per cent repeated ) or not ( 37 per cent repeated ) . |
| 16 | After the Seebohm Report ( Cmnd. 3703 ) with the creation of the local authority social services departments in 1971 , expectations of improved community care services were not fulfilled to the extent expected . |
| 17 | Indeed , by the outbreak of World War II , there is considerable evidence that working class families were not responding to the call by the Royal Commission on Population and policy makers for larger families ( a result of anxiety regarding the dramatic decline in the birth rate during the 1930s ) . |
| 18 | However , at the first annual general meeting in February 1968 , Banks and Harris were not returned to the executive committee and although Sinclair replaced Harris in the chair , Peters was replaced as secretary by John McAnerney of the CSJ . |
| 19 | 2.14 The Landlord shall procure that the obligations of the contractor under clause of the Building Contract are complied with within the period applicable but ( save as provided in clause 16.3 [ of this agreement and in clause [ s ] of the Lease ] the Landlord shall with effect from the Certificate Date be under no liability to the Tenant in respect of any failure to carry out the Works in accordance with clauses 2.2.1 and 2.2.3 ( save as regards matters specified in any Defects Notice which were not remedied to the Surveyor 's [ reasonable ] satisfaction ) The part of this clause commencing … but ( save as provided in clause 16.3 … to the end of the clause should be deleted , as a tenant may consider it unreasonable for a landlord to exempt itself from liability in this manner . |
| 20 | He said those being asked to leave — mainly machinists — were not suited to the industry . |
| 21 | This paper 's remarkable success in increasing sales between 1965 and 1969 not only showed what could be achieved by a powerful sales campaign ( which also brought in advertising at higher rates ) but also indicated that new purchasers of newspapers were not attracted to the party press , whose sales remained relatively stagnant . |
| 22 | Speaking on Feb. 9 at NATO 's annual Munich Conference on Security , which was attended by leading figures from the 16 member countries , Quayle warned of the consequences if a solution were not found to the deadlock in talks on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT — see p. 38746 ) . |
| 23 | We compared the incidence in the study areas with national data using the following sources : for childhood cancer , data from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours for 1969–87 ; for young people aged 15–24 , cancer registration statistics for England and Wales for 1971–86 , though these data were not subjected to the review processes carried out for the specialist registries ; for leukaemias and lymphomas in those aged 25–74 , data from the data collection study covering about one third of the population of England and Wales . |
| 24 | Previous generations may also have felt a passing pang of regret as they allowed the younger generation to take their place , but they were not subjected to the pressure to stay young which affects men and women of forty or fifty today . |
| 25 | This time , however , we were not going to the Consulate but driving straight to the border . |
| 26 | The couple were not going to the palace of Saint Cloud , which would certainly not have provided an intimate setting for a honeymoon , but to a small house at Villeneuve l'Etang , which the Emperor had purchased himself . |
| 27 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 28 | AN ADDITIONAL series of allegations that Serious Crime Squad detectives in the West Midlands Police fabricated confessions were not disclosed to the public and the Police Complaints Authority for more than a year . |
| 29 | ( In fact , shares were not offered to the public , but instead the management were offered the chance to organise a management buyout . ) |
| 30 | The bourgeoisie were not admitted to the court or to the nomenklatura . |