Example sentences of "was not [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 2 | Gina was not turned on by these sounds . |
| 3 | It was ‘ the establishment ’ , or one very thick and influential layer of it ; but it certainly was not made up of stuffed shirts and Colonel Blimps along with their twittering wives . |
| 4 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 5 | The master ordered the limitation issue to be set down for trial within 28 days , but it was not set down until ten months later . |
| 6 | Since work was not put out to rural artificers , clothmaking remained craft-based . |
| 7 | This was not taken up by mainstream researchers . |
| 8 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 9 | The wartime hunt for German spies was not carried out with greater enthusiasm than the campaign to eliminate diamond crossings ! |
| 10 | It was not cluttered up with redundant ‘ survivals ’ , to be understood retrospectively by reference to assumed evolutionary historical stages . |
| 11 | In other words , basic steward training was not financed out of additional funding , which was devoted instead to a union-controlled programme which tackled more advanced issues . |
| 12 | Second , this investment abroad was not financed out of domestic profits ; over the same period US business received profits from its past investment overseas equivalent to around 1¼ times as much as it was sending overseas . |
| 13 | Unlike Richard he was not brought up in Welsh but learnt it as a foreign language . |
| 14 | Legislation was not brought in until 1923 , however , largely because any attempt at reform was regarded as an attack on the sanctity of marriage , despite the Royal Commission 's argument ( repeated by all later proponents of divorce law reform ) that relaxation would in fact strengthen rather than weaken it . |
| 15 | Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids . |
| 16 | However , in the Braniel a young male fieldworker found ( for rather obvious reasons ) that he was not passed on to any young women of a similar age to himself . |
| 17 | He realized that he ‘ was n't cut out for academic work ’ . |
| 18 | She just was n't cut out for this sort of thing ! |
| 19 | I think the occasional piece which encouraged your readers to rediscover the genuinely great figures of the past — Gene Vincent , for example — would be useful , especially if it was n't tied in with some promotion or record release |
| 20 | He had n't got creases on his face from being folded up , and he was n't made up of hundreds of tiny dots , but apart from that … |
| 21 | ‘ What a set-up for a young lass when her father must n't be told she goes to a dance , ’ said Lizzie , which brought forth from Peggy the sharp and quizzical retort , ‘ Remember , Mam , when I was fifteen I was n't allowed out at all after six o'clock unless you were with me . ’ |
| 22 | that that green was n't put on for that competition . |
| 23 | " I 'd work on the assumption that he was n't put in before high water , " Sergeant Burgess said . |
| 24 | It certainly was n't brought down by ship-based anti-aircraft fire . |