Example sentences of "were not [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Exactly similar inferences can be made in cases like example ( 18 ) , and it is clear that such inferences are fundamental to our sense of coherence in discourse : if the implicatures were not constructed on the basis of the assumption of relevance , many adjacent utterances in conversation would appear quite unconnected . |
| 4 | ( h ) Presenting another 's cheque : Wille , above , even though the bank had no mandate to honour the cheque , and Chan Man-sin v R , above , where the cheques were not binding on the company . |
| 5 | On the other question , new temples were not built on the Acropolis until after the middle of the century ( a ‘ Cimonian Parthenon ’ appears to me a mare 's nest , and even its proponent does not think it was begun before the sixties ; below , p. 93 ) . |
| 6 | The niceties of these social distinctions were not lost on the pub designer of the period , as they boosted pub taking by enabling such a wide range of people to be served in the same building . |
| 7 | For example , the States of Indiana , Ohio , New York , Pennsylvania , New Jersey , Maryland , Delaware , Connecticut and Rhode Island were not represented on the House Committee on Agriculture in 1985 ( Johnston , 1988c ) , and of those only Indiana was represented on the Senate 's Subcommittee on Agriculture , Nutrition and Forestry . |
| 8 | They argued that most of girls ' lives were not conducted on the street in any case , and that it was necessary to study them in their homes instead . |
| 9 | If one is willing to discard the possibility of Picasso having focused his attention on these particular heads in the Louvre — and this is unlikely since they were not shown on the ground floor like the Osuna reliefs , the Dama de Elche and other important Iberian pieces , but in a small room in the basement together with some twenty other heads — his acquisition of them is useful in establishing a chronological sequence for the painting of the different sections of the Demoiselles . |
| 10 | Among the 83 controls for whom neither parent was interviewed , 58 sets of parents declined an interview , 14 were not approached on the advice of their general practitioner , and the current addresses of the remaining 11 were not traced . |
| 11 | I am not certain why the other three crew members were not included on the memorial as none of the bodies were recovered . |
| 12 | Western scientists were not allowed on the scene then , and for many months afterwards had only restricted access . |
| 13 | Bermuda in the mid-30s was even more charming than it is now : motor cars were not allowed on the island and most residents travelled on bicycles , usually with a large wicker pannier between the handle-bars . |
| 14 | If those men were not working on the gas I would go over there now , and I 'd switch the fire and I 'd leave it on . |
| 15 | The Liberal Democrats were not working on the hypothesis that the phone would ring to ask them to join a coalition government . |