Example sentences of "was not [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore the clearance of G17 was not altered by the eradication of H pylori .
2 This irony was not lost on a US judge .
3 Her anxious query was not lost on the man sitting opposite her .
4 The point was not lost on the City , which , pleasantly relieved by the results and cheered by an increase in the final dividend , marked the shares up by 27p .
5 The Law Lords held that this publication was protected by qualified privilege : the Council had a duty to leap to the General 's defence , and the privilege was not lost by the fact of world-wide publication , because " a man who makes a statement on the floor of the House of Commons makes it to all the world … it was only plain justice to the General that the ambit of contradiction should be spread so wide as , if possible , to meet the false accusation wherever it went . "
6 Capitalist economy was not built as the result of an overall , collective , decision ; no one nor one group sat down and said ‘ we shall now proceed to build capitalism . ’
7 It therefore asserted what it considered to be the position at which the public/private distinction should be fixed , a position which would allow prostitution to be effectively a private matter as long as it was not conducted on the streets .
8 Putting it in different words , the trick was not applied to the appellants ; they voluntarily applied themselves to the trick .
9 A final settlement of the British problem was not reached until the June 1984 Fontainebleau summit , when a rebate system effectively halved the net contribution .
10 While some felt frightened about participating in an organization which was not related to the church , others were very enthusiastic .
11 According to a response prediction model , the observed response rate was not related to the selection of patients likely to respond .
12 His proudest moment during this period was not related to the theatre but to football , specifically to his team winning the Malaga Cup .
13 However , since the court held that a requirement that the crew reside on shore in the member state in question was not related to the aim of the quota system , no reason can be seen which might induce the court to take the view that residence and domicile requirements imposed on all owners and operators of fishing vessels and on 75 per cent .
14 For clinicians without access to bone densitometry , these results are helpful in showing that the improvement with HRT was similar in both Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis ; in addition , the response to oestrogens was not related to the patients age or the number of postmenopausal years .
15 Total duration of taking oral contraceptives was not related to the risk of endometriosis ( table IV ) .
16 Cardiovascular mortality was not related to the duration of gestation except for a small increase in death rates in men born prematurely .
17 This was not related to the duration of diarrhoea ( χ 2 test , p>0.05 ) .
18 Nobody was injured and production was not affected by the incident .
19 But Gallup says it was not affected by the CBS promotion .
20 For these countries , the scale of expansion was not affected by the dollar crisis ( although the form may have been — the ‘ automatic ’ nature of the monetary expansion generated by dollar inflows may have bred a more monetary , and less fiscal , policy mixture than would otherwise have been adopted , and thus contributed to the easy money regime ) .
21 It was not affected by the surrender of part of the premises , however large , although it would be terminated by a surrender of the whole , as then the term would have come to an end .
22 It was held by the Court of Appeal that the bank was not affected by the improprieties committed towards the defendants by the director and solicitors of S. Ltd. , and that the charge was enforceable .
23 The quality of honey was not affected by the mite , he said , but production could be hit if numbers of the mites multiplied rapidly throughout the country .
24 By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge .
25 He wanted to look at the contract and check it out and really , with no trouble at all — I think he wrote a couple of letters and said that Pitt was not acting in the capacity as manager that David required and that was that . ’
26 The report , which called for the raising of the minimum wage in the overseas departments and examined the contentious issue of civil service pay , was not supported by the majority of deputies from Guadeloupe and Martinique in a debate held on June 12-13 in the French National Assembly .
27 Later today , Mr Morrison and the three other members of the American delegation were told that the peace envoy plan was not supported by the majority of people in Northern Ireland .
28 The TT300 programme was not supported by the Ministry of Defence and was dropped in favour of the larger EH.101 utility variant .
29 The initiative was not supported by the CP and white right-wing organizations .
30 The decision in Tameside may be contrasted with ASLEF ( No. 2 ) where the trade union 's complaint that the minister had no reason to believe that the members were not behind their leaders was not supported by the court .
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