Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition Barker showed that total hydrocarbon yield was not related to rank in the bituminous materials . |
| 2 | Ms Weldon , a member of the committee who was not asked to sit at the hearing , described the video as a serious attempt to deal with the bride of Christ notion . |
| 3 | The decision by a court that a particular situation was not intended to come within the ambit of a statute , though within its words in what may be their most obvious meaning , does not deny the supremacy of Parliament , for if Parliament disagrees with the decision it can pass another Act dealing specifically with the type of case . |
| 4 | Yet in practice this view was not extended to take in the case of gender : the advances made as a result of the critique of behaviourism and pluralism did not go on to question the assumptions and mechanisms that continue to define politics as the affair of men . |
| 5 | In a civil question between the creditors of a deceased and insolvent certificate-holder and his widow , who , without objection by the creditors , obtained the certificate and thereafter carried on the business without any agreement being made regarding her paying her husband 's debts , or the application of the profits during her tenancy , it was decided that she was not bound to account to the creditors for the profits earned by her under her own certificate : Stewart 's Trs. v. Stewart 's Executrix ( 1896 ) 23 R. 739 . |
| 6 | The competition for them was not bound to result in the use of force , but it kept force in view . |
| 7 | Why the NTSB was not invited to participate in the investigation by the Mexican authorities is not known . |
| 8 | It bears pointing out , therefore , that silliness on this whole subject was not put to rout by the coming of a more formal and scholarly type of linguistic study . |
| 9 | As a result of US pressure Arafat , unlike the heads of other delegations , was not permitted to speak from the podium . |
| 10 | It might look at the purpose of the rule , and imply a term which , though not amending the rule , supplemented it sufficiently to change its emphasis — perhaps by holding that it was not meant to apply after the introduction of the cash-settled contracts . |
| 11 | Sodomy was not thought to originate in a pathological subjectivity ( the modern pervert ) ; rather , the sexual deviant was the vehicle of a confusion never only sexual , and sexual in a way different from the sexological and psychoanalytic accounts . |
| 12 | Washington had first seen the attractions of open land when working as a surveyor along a line running north-west to the Ohio valley and Lake Erie , and he could reckon that his survey was not going to remain as a simple tribute to the government 's desire for information . |
| 13 | She was not going to fall into the trap of thinking she wanted Vitor as Vitor . |
| 14 | But I was not going to submit to the suffering of being preserved in a past that was not my own . |
| 15 | Last week the Director of Public Prosecutions formally told the men 's second appeal court that he was not going to rely on the scientific evidence . |
| 16 | He said Sabine rushed out of the study , saying she was not going to wait on the boat any longer . |
| 17 | Sean had no where to go because he was not going to go to a friend 's house as he was not ready to face up to people he knew . |
| 18 | Matthew was not going to rise to the bait his mother dangled so expertly in front of him . |
| 19 | Although Bernard again retired early to bed , this time his wife was not forced to sleep in a cupboard . |
| 20 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |
| 21 | Naturally , in view of the political interest of Lord Milton and the Duke of Argyll , John Main was not left to languish in the state of promoted unemployment to which Colonel Haldane 's enmity had consigned him , but although they were able to secure a port appointment for Main which brought him a regular salary , it was at Bo'ness , on the Lothian shore of the river Forth and directly under they eye of Haldane 's ally , Collector Middleton , who sent the unfortunate Main ‘ on every drudgery piece of business to different places to put him to all the expence & trouble the Collector can devise ’ . |
| 22 | She reached the junction of the lane with the main road , and there she waited , because she was not allowed to go on the main road with her cycle . |
| 23 | The inevitable question , ‘ What did you do in the hols ? ’ would be greeted with a list of the films I had seen , and the dances and point-to-points I had been to , whereas in fact I was not allowed to go to the cinema ( perhaps for financial reasons ) , had never been to a dance in my life , and did n't even know what a point-to-point was . |
| 24 | Thus the tenant will not be permitted to rely on his own breach of his repairing obligations in order to depress the rent payable on review ( Harmsworth Pension Funds Trustees v Charringtons Industrial Holdings ( 1985 ) 49 P&CR 297 ) , and a surety who had guaranteed the obligations of a tenant was not allowed to rely on the tenant 's failure to register an assignment with the landlord in order to escape liability under his surety covenant ( Cerium Investments v Evans ( 1991 ) 62 P&CR 203 ) . |
| 25 | When a person was called to the Bar … he was not allowed to practise in the Court of Common Pleas in banco , but he was allowed to practise in the other courts in Westminster Hall … |
| 26 | Since in these cases incorporation and public benefit were intimately linked it was also accepted that there should be a measure of state control to ensure that private interest was not allowed to predominate over the public good . |
| 27 | Even this defection by Rothermere was not allowed to pass without a characteristic explanation from Joyce himself : |
| 28 | I was not allowed to speak to the workers … it seems that their trade union membership is not allowed by the management . |
| 29 | ( As of mid-March 1990 Clowes and six others faced charges relating to fraud , theft and deception in a trial which was not expected to begin until the spring of 1991 . ) |
| 30 | This market was n't built to deal with the numbers of animals passing through it . |