Example sentences of "was not [verb] [prep] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parish church , Holy Trinity , was not built until 1862 and the feast predates that by at least 200 years . |
| 2 | This is because the British Boxing Board of Control ( BBBC ) , the governing body of the sport , was not formed until 1929 and quite openly barred non-whites from challenging for British titles until 1948 . |
| 3 | A revised merger proposal between UB and Imperial , which involved disposing of Imperial 's Golden Wonder subsidiary , thus reducing market share in the snack foods market , was not referred to MMC and hence both bids were allowed to proceed . |
| 4 | The HLA-DR was not expressed on untreated and TNF-α treated colo 205 . |
| 5 | Concern that the conflict would spread to the mainly Albanian-populated Serbian province of Kosovo was not assuaged by Yugoslav and Serb leaders ' rejection of Lord Carrington 's proposal for an international conference on Kosovo , made in Belgrade on July 21 . |
| 6 | was not maintained in good and efficient working order and properly adjusted . |
| 7 | ‘ was not maintained in good and efficient working order and properly adjusted ’ . |
| 8 | on which the windscreen wiper was not maintained in good and efficient working order , and/or properly adjusted . |
| 9 | ‘ on which the windscreen wiper was not maintained in good and efficient working order and/or properly adjusted ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ on which the windscreen wiper was not maintained in good and efficient working order and/or properly adjusted ’ . |
| 11 | The parasite was originally described in 1907 but the first human case was not recognised until 1976 and only eight cases were described in the literature before 1982 . |
| 12 | This was not invented until 1913 and in its early simple form consisted of steel with a chromium content : this made the alloy highly resistant to corrosion . |
| 13 | Regrettably , the whole foundation for this is the rather suspect testimony of Tschudi 's grandson , James Schudi Broadwood , which was not published till 1862 and a rather speculative connection between Handel and an evidently much altered harpsichord dated 1729 that purports to have belonged to his prima donna , Anna Strada . |
| 14 | Now she was not orientated at all and for all she knew she could have been going round in circles . |
| 15 | It also resembles the strategy of the early modern female cross-dresser for whom sexual difference was not derived from natural and divine law , but produced by ‘ custom ’ , that is , culture . |
| 16 | She and Paula , who was in the sixth form , had struck up a close relationship ; when Louise was not occupied in tantalising and inflaming some poor young man she and Paula were always together , drinking endless cups of espresso coffee to the accompaniment of Elvis and Cliff and Tommy Steele on the juke-box in the Black Cat Coffee Bar , haring about on Louise 's smart little Lambretta scooter , or simply spending an evening painting one another 's toenails , plucking one another 's eyebrows and generally trying to make themselves even more fatally attractive to the opposite sex , which , without doubt , they already were . |
| 17 | Er erm and then later on I , I , I think maybe she did realize , you know , cos I said I was n't prepared for that and that has n't happened before . |