Example sentences of "was not [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the clearance of G17 was not altered by the eradication of H pylori . |
| 2 | Her anxious query was not lost on the man sitting opposite her . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | While some felt frightened about participating in an organization which was not related to the church , others were very enthusiastic . |
| 7 | According to a response prediction model , the observed response rate was not related to the selection of patients likely to respond . |
| 8 | His proudest moment during this period was not related to the theatre but to football , specifically to his team winning the Malaga Cup . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Total duration of taking oral contraceptives was not related to the risk of endometriosis ( table IV ) . |
| 11 | Cardiovascular mortality was not related to the duration of gestation except for a small increase in death rates in men born prematurely . |
| 12 | This was not related to the duration of diarrhoea ( χ 2 test , p>0.05 ) . |
| 13 | Nobody was injured and production was not affected by the incident . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The TT300 programme was not supported by the Ministry of Defence and was dropped in favour of the larger EH.101 utility variant . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Bush 's optimistic forecast for the economy set out in his Jan. 29 State of the Union address [ see pp. 37952-53 ] was not supported by the unemployment figures released on Feb. 1 , the worst since the recession of the early 1980s . |
| 23 | It was not recorded before the year 1610 , and there have been suggestions that it brightened up abruptly at that time , though personally I am sceptical ; it would be a strange coincidence if the Nebula burst into prominence at just the time when mankind invented the telescope ! |
| 24 | But she was not resting in the hollow , she was floating in it . |
| 25 | A patent , once granted , can be revoked if it is subsequently shown to fail to meet the requirements for patentability ; for example , that it was not novel on the priority date or does not have an inventive step , or if it was not granted to the person entitled to it . |
| 26 | I have never known anyone working in fundamental science who was not motivated by the desire to understand the way the world is . |
| 27 | I was not referring to a press report of the Robert George case . |
| 28 | She had a distinctly uncomfortable feeling that he was not referring to the fight which had followed that little incident . |
| 29 | Although that lifeboat station was not operating during the war the crew were from a lifeboat family , one of whom was awarded a Bronze medal for Gallantry some 30 years later . |
| 30 | What you quickly learned was not to sit on the end of the row , because the usherettes would pass the trays down the row and as soon as everybody was served they 'd give the nod to the projectionist , the lights would go down again , and on the film would go . |