Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Lynch added : ‘ What I can not understand is why the bag was not checked at the mortuary or the police station ? ’ |
| 2 | But Uncle Philip was not seated at the table , scowling at the two empty places ; his place was not even set ready . |
| 3 | Three patients were excluded from the subsequent analysis as anaemia ( haemoglobin <13 g/100 ml men , <11.5 g/100 ml women ) was not confirmed at the hospital or on reviewing the family practitioners ' investigations . |
| 4 | Their house was not searched at the time of the dawn raid ; they were not driven away to a police station for questioning . |
| 5 | The resignation of Richardson , then Minister of Justice and National Security , tendered on Sept. 18 for failing to prevent the attempted coup and the ensuing looting , was not accepted at the time by the Prime Minister , with whom Richardson had been held hostage during the crisis . |
| 6 | Zaidie 's statement also contained damaging but inadmissible evidence of threats allegedly uttered to Paulette and Zaidie 's brother which was not adduced at the trial . |
| 7 | Most of these are presumably extragalactic but they include the pulsar PSR1706–44 , although this was not recognized at the time . |
| 8 | One can therefore presume that he was not looking at the landscape as scenery but as habitat . |
| 9 | Similarly , if new and important evidence came to light during a review which was not given at the inspector 's investigation , the Chief Inspector should be able to apply to have the review discontinued , following which he should reopen the inspector 's investigation . |
| 10 | The princess , wearing a red jacket and black skirt and hat , was spotted soon afterwards making her way to the paddock , chatting happily with Andrew Parker Bowles , husband of the Prince of Wales ' friend Camilla , who was not seen at the meeting . |
| 11 | These suspicions were fuelled when it was discovered that one of those killed was not employed at the mine . |
| 12 | There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle , and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy . |
| 13 | The proposed government centre ( not yet a palace ) was not situated at the end of converging boulevards , but occupied an already partially derelict and vacant site . |
| 14 | The defendant had moved a few weeks before to another address in the same town , but this fact was not discovered at the time . |
| 15 | The father was not named at the registration of birth ; but maybe his mother took revenge on him when she added an unusual Christian name , Ibbotson , to follow the two commonplace forenames , John and Thomas . |
| 16 | For reasons yet to be explained , the ‘ contract ’ affidavit concerning Mrs Mandela , given by Dlamini to a police lieutenant , was not presented at the trial . |
| 17 | Lyall , 53 last week , was shocked when his contract at Upton Park was not renewed at the end of the 1989–90 season . |
| 18 | Artemidorus of Daldis was not born at the time . |
| 19 | Dexter was sure the TV reporter 's motive for leaving the room was more to check the nanny was not listening at the keyhole than a raging thirst . |
| 20 | That was not achieved at the expense of health and safety , because over the same period fatal accidents fell by 72 per cent . |
| 21 | The TVOR was not installed at the time of the accident . |
| 22 | But the rise in aggregate demand was not anticipated at the end of period 0 when the price was set . |
| 23 | No , the rude word was not sung at the end of the fourth line but the implication was there . |
| 24 | Obiter the court said that the supply of the drug was not directed at the person of the accused . |
| 25 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 26 | The caption on p.34 bottom left states that the Merriam knapsack was standard issue ; in fact , of course , the Merriam was an unpopular novelty issued to certain units on a trial basis ( e.g. the 71st NY Volunteer Infantry ) and was not used at the front in any great numbers . |
| 27 | John Ferrar 's Life of Nicholas was not published at the time when it was written and the manuscript disappeared until 1790 . |
| 28 | Although the first part of the Pilgrim 's Progress was written during this period of imprisonment , it was not published at the time . |
| 29 | It was brought by the customers when required for use rather than all at once so that large-scale storage was not needed at the mills . |
| 30 | He might be pretentious in other ways , but he was not posing at the keyboard . |