Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the second-floor landing , a ladder-like stair , more steeply raked than those serving the lower floors , leads up to a large loft , wholly accommodated in the roof space of the main block , which was not exploited as living accommodation in the original conversion scheme . |
| 2 | Lysozyme mRNA expression was not related to histological disease activity , as there was no significant difference between active and inactive ulcerative colitis ( lysozyme positive cells in 12 of 14 active ulcerative colitis , 10 of 13 inactive ulcerative colitis ) . |
| 3 | Conversely , in the high-risk group , which included all subjects who were not in the low-risk group already defined ( Table 3 ) , the ACE/ID polymorphism was not related to myocardial infarction . |
| 4 | Future fertility was not related to induced abortion . |
| 5 | When we grouped the sectors approximately into local government districts and then ranked them on density of oil workers , this ranking coincided with that based on data for offshore workers in the 1981 census , suggesting that our data was not affected by geographic bias . |
| 6 | There was a period when the Cabinet did not seem and , in fact , was not acting with collective responsibility , because one person was not playing as a member of a team . |
| 7 | He must be made to realise that she was speaking up for Kirsty 's sake , that she was not motivated by personal spite . |
| 8 | Obviously he was not referring to obstetrical anaesthesia , in which controversy thrives . |
| 9 | The argument of Edward 's lawyers that a woman could not succeed to a fief was not upheld by local custom , and so Jean I of Armagnac remained the beneficiary of much of the de Goth inheritance in the duchy . |
| 10 | The work was not written in liturgical order , and Mozart 's own part in it breaks off after eight bars of the Lachrymosa . |
| 11 | It is likely that Gorbachev 's Mediterranean initiative was not intended for serious negotiation . |
| 12 | It is plain that the solicitors ' claim was not prepared with proper care . |
| 13 | American interests demanded a friendly and stable Middle East , one which was not exposed to Soviet interference or encroachment , and from which supplies of oil — especially to Western Europe — were assured . |
| 14 | The mitogenic activity of the GGFHFB1-encoded protein was detected within lysates derived from transfected cells and was not detected in conditioned medium . |
| 15 | The Party could always be relied upon to orchestrate the massive demonstrations whose purpose was to cow those who doubted Franco 's strength and silence allegations that the regime was not legitimated by popular support . |
| 16 | On the one hand it would be perfectly in order to write the biography of a poet as long as it is understood that it would be ‘ on a par with biographies of generals and inventors ’ ( Tomashevsky 1978 : 55 ) and was not mistaken for literary science . |
| 17 | Tshisekedi 's election was not met with universal approval . |
| 18 | This difference of opinion was not caused by cultural misunderstanding but by social conflict . |
| 19 | Shrinkage was not caused by exterior shell erosion because the outside periostracum was largely unbroken in shrinking shells and the nacre and crystalline layers inside had been removed , leaving the excess periostracum . |
| 20 | Equal adult suffrage was not conceded in local government in Northern Ireland until 1969 ( Arthur 1980:108 ) . |
| 21 | As judgment was not given in open court , I think that the operative part of Waite J. 's reasoning should be given in full . |
| 22 | Such perivascular concentration of TNF α+; cells was not seen in ulcerative colitis or in Crohn 's lamina propria . |
| 23 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 24 | The standard of care owed by a competitor to a spectator was not to act with reckless disregard for the spectator 's safety . |
| 25 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |
| 26 | The mastery of a new urban idiom or style was more important than the specific content of any one film , and , as we have seen , anything that departed too far from tradition was not regarded as good box-office . |
| 27 | Two principal ( albeit contradictory ) difficulties arose : the belief of the governments of some member states ( including the UK ) that any such procedure should be voluntary , and the fact that Vredeling was not limited to collective representation of employees through trade unions . |
| 28 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
| 29 | But this urban growth was not matched by commensurate development of a bourgeoisie comparable to that of many parts of the West . |
| 30 | The conflict was not lacking in human interest . |