Example sentences of "was not [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fagan , who was 30 at the time , was not prosecuted for the trespass after the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled there was no evidence that the trespass was a criminal offence . |
| 2 | However , the company was not prosecuted for the fact that four people died , but because the machinery was not properly maintained ; they were fined £5,000 . |
| 3 | One of Jacob Rothschild 's first decisions as Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund was not to acquire for the nation the most comprehensive collection in England of naive art shop signs , weather vanes , country furniture , marine samplers and quilts , made between 1750 and 1900 offered by dealer/collector Andras Kalman . |
| 4 | I suggested that if there was money available from sponsors that was not intended for the development of rugby , then it might be used as a way of rewarding the squad . |
| 5 | She expected him to keep looking over his shoulder to make sure that all the fuss was not intended for the man behind . |
| 6 | It was not intended for the man or woman at the receiving end but for the author 's fellow elitists . |
| 7 | ‘ I heard on good authority that Albert Reynolds sent an emissary to the north to make sure it was understood that Spring was not speaking for the government . |
| 8 | This method has also shown that a similar pattern of damage was caused to the DNA in human cells for the complex 9 whereas damage to intracellular DNA was not detected for the complex 10 ( 9 ) . |
| 9 | Strong and prescient words , yet Marsh was not calling for a halt to all human interference . |
| 10 | The following day , before the final results were declared , Madani demanded the dissolution of the National Assembly after his party 's surprise victory , although he stressed that he was not calling for the replacement of President Chadli Bendjedid , whose third five-year term would not expire until 1993 . |
| 11 | He told himself he was not looking for a lover , but simply the opportunity to tell Resenence about the dream . |
| 12 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 13 | He lacked imagination and , like most of those in the right-wing Völkisch parties , was not noted for the subtlety of his political thought . |
| 14 | This was not achieved for a number of reasons . |
| 15 | ( Provided he was not questioned for the offence in the first police station ) . |
| 16 | Despite the preparation of various position papers between 1943 and 1945 the United States was not organised for the task of governing Korea . |
| 17 | In In re Midland Railway Co. 's Agreement [ 1971 ] Ch. 725 there was no ‘ clearly expressed bargain ’ that the term should continue until the crack of doom if the demised land was not required for the landlord 's undertaking or if the undertaking ceased to exist . |
| 18 | I was not asking for a debate and I want to make that quite clear . |
| 19 | The Kerry Group Irish Champion Stakes lost one of its biggest draws yesterday when Rodrigo de Triano was not entered for the Group One race at Leopardstown on Sunday . |
| 20 | The Dialogue was not published for the benefit of transvestite amateur countertenors : Mopsa 's part in it was aimed at young ladies . |
| 21 | SUN-SEEKING Mr Lamont was given the cold shoulder yesterday when he was told he was NOT needed for a crisis meeting back in Britain . |
| 22 | Yet history records that the nation was not waiting for a programme of national reconstruction . |
| 23 | ( i ) The plaintiffs challenge the validity of the section 39 notice , on the footing that it was not issued for the purpose of the Bank exercising its own supervisory functions under the Act , but rather for the purpose of enabling the U.S. Federal Reserve Board to pursue its own inquiries in relation to its own functions as the U.S. regulatory authority ; it is also contended that the notice is defective in form . |
| 24 | Campbeltown took the brunt of the shot and shell , her captain — Lieutenant-Commander S. ( Sam ) H. Beattie RN — blinded by search-lights yet making last-minute corrections to her course when a rift in the smoke showed she was not heading for the caisson , still 700 yards upriver . |
| 25 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 26 | But in a statement to an inquest in Bishop Auckland yesterday , Jacob Blenkinsop , of Northam Close , Stainton Park , Middlesbrough , said truck driver Ian Burrige was not to blame for the accident near Sedgefield on March 5 . |
| 27 | The African bush was not place for an antelope which had acquired a taste for imported peanuts and strawberry yoghurt . |
| 28 | On 5 August he made a statement in which he said that Spain " was not begging for a place in any international organization and would certainly not accept any such place unless it were commensurate with her historical importance , size of population and her services to peace and culture " , including neutrality during the Second World War . |