Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] in the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The competition for them was not bound to result in the use of force , but it kept force in view . |
| 4 | Why the NTSB was not invited to participate in the investigation by the Mexican authorities is not known . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 8 | He was n't going to fall in the paint … |