Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He must be made to realise that she was speaking up for Kirsty 's sake , that she was not motivated by personal spite . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This difference of opinion was not caused by cultural misunderstanding but by social conflict . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But this urban growth was not matched by commensurate development of a bourgeoisie comparable to that of many parts of the West . |
| 9 | He noticed that when viewed with a camera obscura the image of the sun was too large but this enlargement was not explained by existing theory . |
| 10 | This fantasy was not fuelled by disinterested speculation but by envy . |
| 11 | But the Congress in its present form dates back to Mikhail Gorbachev 's ; it was not elected by general suffrage , but ( on behalf of the whole of what was still the Soviet Union ) partly elected on a local basis and partly nominated by special interest groups . |
| 12 | The bile acid concentration in faecal water also decreased with increasing dietary calcium , and this was not influenced by dietary phosphate . |
| 13 | In many cities , most vacant land was not owned by local government but by the private sector and statutory authorities . |
| 14 | Because of the predominance of low renin hypertension among black Kenyan patients we compared the efficacy of propranolol plus diuretic , a standard treatment in Africa , with nifedipine plus diuretic in Kenyan patients whose blood pressure was not controlled by diuretic treatment . |
| 15 | The crash was not reported by state-controlled radio for 12 hours , and relatives of the dead were not informed for up to two days . |
| 16 | Survival of patients was not improved by preoperative radiotherapy , but was significantly associated with a radical tumour resection . |
| 17 | " The Times " reported this evidence — which , having been given in a foreign court , was not protected by absolute privilege . |
| 18 | As a priest and bishop he was not marked by revolutionary fervour — on the contrary , he was deeply conservative and disapproved of ‘ political ’ priests . |
| 19 | The ability of Margaret Thatcher 's government to carry through the radical departure from ‘ consensus ’ economic policies in the 1980s was not inhibited by civil service power , although there were titanic struggles and some officials were replaced by others more sympathetic to the government 's policies . |
| 20 | Hepatocyte expression of pre-S1 and pre-S2 in chronic type D hepatitis also correlated significantly with status of hepatitis B virus replication , and was not modulated by concurrent hepatitis delta virus infection . |
| 21 | The most important point is that the volatility of raw recruits from the countryside was not complemented by increasing moderation on the part of their more thoroughly ‘ proletarianized ’ comrades . |
| 22 | She also said that Spaniards ' general ignorance of the benefits of such a service was n't helped by poor advertising from Telefonica . |
| 23 | I did n't think it likely that John would be killed — after all , he was n't held by Islamic Jihad — but I felt the tension all the same . |