Example sentences of "was not [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HR Delphini , discovered by George Alcock in 1967 , was not lost to binocular users until 1971 . |
| 2 | However , the Court had also held in Case 362/90 , d'Urso , [ 1990 ] 1 ECR 4105 that a collective decision to contract out of the Directive was not binding on individual employees who wish subsequently to transfer . |
| 3 | Until late 1988 , whisky spirits in Japan faced a special tax which was not applied to other spirits . |
| 4 | From the second-floor landing , a ladder-like stair , more steeply raked than those serving the lower floors , leads up to a large loft , wholly accommodated in the roof space of the main block , which was not exploited as living accommodation in the original conversion scheme . |
| 5 | Lysozyme mRNA expression was not related to histological disease activity , as there was no significant difference between active and inactive ulcerative colitis ( lysozyme positive cells in 12 of 14 active ulcerative colitis , 10 of 13 inactive ulcerative colitis ) . |
| 6 | Conversely , in the high-risk group , which included all subjects who were not in the low-risk group already defined ( Table 3 ) , the ACE/ID polymorphism was not related to myocardial infarction . |
| 7 | Future fertility was not related to induced abortion . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was a period when the Cabinet did not seem and , in fact , was not acting with collective responsibility , because one person was not playing as a member of a team . |
| 10 | Mr Patten told the National House Building Council in London that his aim in the public rental sector was not to move to market-level rents or to end rent subsidies for the less well off . |
| 11 | He must be made to realise that she was speaking up for Kirsty 's sake , that she was not motivated by personal spite . |
| 12 | Obviously he was not referring to obstetrical anaesthesia , in which controversy thrives . |
| 13 | Mr Gow made it clear that he was not referring to small men in any literal sense . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Culturalists will point out — as C. S. Lewis once did — that much poetry of the past was not written for aesthetic ends , but for religious , political , or other social purposes . |
| 16 | The work was not written in liturgical order , and Mozart 's own part in it breaks off after eight bars of the Lachrymosa . |
| 17 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 18 | It is likely that Gorbachev 's Mediterranean initiative was not intended for serious negotiation . |
| 19 | King Edward 's unpopularity was not enhanced by close relatives being created Earls , so Isabella went to Paris in 1325 to consult with her brother , by then King of France , and with the help of the Earl of March , troops were sent from France to round up the royal favourites for execution , and to depose and imprison Edward II , who was murdered by one of the Earl of March 's agents in September 1327 . |
| 20 | The distribution of seats in the Congress following an early general election on Oct. 29 , 1989 [ see pp. 36983-84 ] , was not finalized until early April 1990 , when the PSOE was allocated 175 — half the total number of seats . |
| 21 | The distribution of seats in the Congress following an early general election on Oct. 29 , 1989 [ see pp. 36983-84 ] , was not finalized until early April 1990 , when the PSOE was allocated 175 — half the total number of seats . |
| 22 | The most likely candidates are local firm MSP Sp zoo , and DHI , which is majority owned by Munich-based Computer 2000 GmBH — although this was not confirmed by American Technologies ' executive vice-president Alex Barkaloff . |
| 23 | Children were accustomed to assuming adult sex roles very early and the attainment of puberty was not signified by external manifestations of maturity . |
| 24 | It is plain that the solicitors ' claim was not prepared with proper care . |
| 25 | American interests demanded a friendly and stable Middle East , one which was not exposed to Soviet interference or encroachment , and from which supplies of oil — especially to Western Europe — were assured . |
| 26 | The idea of a First Cause , Whewell suggested , was not extracted from natural phenomena . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the farm worker has generally been among the last to receive citizenship rights granted to the rest of the population — the shadow of the workhouse was not finally removed until 1936 , the Rent Act was not extended to agricultural dwellings until 1976 and even today agricultural legislation manages to override certain of the conditions of the Truck Acts . |
| 28 | That package included agreeing the running costs of the estate with the Scottish Natural Heritage agency , which was not finalised despite lengthy negotiations . |
| 29 | But a new note has surfaced , a note which points out that while philosophical scepticism may have nourished and stimulated the mind of Greeks trained in civic religious observances , it was not nourishing to modern minds trained on nothing at all . |
| 30 | The mitogenic activity of the GGFHFB1-encoded protein was detected within lysates derived from transfected cells and was not detected in conditioned medium . |